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Read A Book Bram Stoker
1,112 wordsCopyright 1996 (Modern library edition) Bram Stoker was born November 8, 1847, in Clontarf Ireland, north of Dublin. His full name was Abraham Stocker. He was the son of Abraham and Charlotte. He was the third of seven children. For the first 7 years of his life Bram was bedridden with a flurry of childhood diseases. This led him to spend much of his time reading. Later in his life, after healing from his diseases, he attended Trinity College in Dublin. There, he was an honor student, played soc...
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Florescu And Mcnally Vlad Iii Dracula
690 wordsUndoubtedly, we have all heard legends about vampires. These undead creatures were born to live by sucking the blood of innocent humans. But where did these monsters originate? The name Dracula comes from Vlad III of fifteenth century Romania (Porter). Contrary to popular opinion though, Dracula was not a vampire, but rather one of the greatest rulers that had every reigned over Romania. Leblanc states, "Vlad III was born in November or December 1431 in the fortress of Sighisoara, Romania." His ...
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Bram Stoker Jonathan Harker
886 wordsThe aspect of Dracula that makes it so frightening, as opposed to contemporary horror, is that of the strong persona of Count Dracula himself. For all of the terror he inspires, The Count has few appearances in the novel, instead using his mystique to frighten the reader. While nearly all current books and films in the horror genre focus on the aspects of violence and shock appeal, Dracula uses the element of suspense to captivate the reader. By using the element of fear, Bram Stoker keeps the r...
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John The Baptist Dorian Gray
1,190 wordsGothic Literature was a natural progression from romanticism, which had existed in the 18 th Century. Initially, such a unique style of literature was met with a somewhat mixed response; although it was greeted with enthusiasm from members of the public, literary critics were much more dubious and sceptical. Gothic writing is a style of literature that relies upon the evocation of moods, feelings and imagery for impact. This style of writing was developed during an age of great scientific discov...
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Forced To Work Character Development
936 wordsThe most apparent difference between Dracula and Nosferatu is that one was made while film was still without sound-at least dialogue-and the other was not. This difference, though not a revelation in itself, leads to a great number of much more in-depth contrasts that deserve discussion. In making a silent film, a director must rely on sight-and a certain amount of text-to portray to the audience his intended emotional, and intellectual reaction. As a result of this, the director is not able to ...
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Gothic Horror Horror Film
1,542 wordsThe genre of Gothic horror film has existed almost as long as the cinema itself, and it has always fascinated me. As the definition above suggests, the word can be loosely used to define any horror story with suitable settings, but such themes as disturbing dreams, desperate, undying love and melancholic romanticisation of death are also usually important in Gothic cinema. The following is a brief and superficial overview on Gothic horror film and some classics of the genre. Directed by Robert W...
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Francis Ford Coppola Bram Stoker
1,079 wordsOne of the famous monsters of our time that has terrorized audiences in many movies is Count Dracula. He is a vampire who has been alive for several hundred years, and keeps himself alive by sucking blood from live victims. The character was created by author Bram Stoker in the novel titled Dracula. In the novel, Dracula is of course the antagonist who would stop at nothing to be with Mina, a women, who looks like his dead wife. The protagonist is a young man from England, Jonathan Harker, who i...
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Committed Suicide True Love
731 wordsThe Aeneid by Virgil and Bram Stokers Dracula are both works centering around love and tragedy. In both of these misfortunes, love is intertwined with suffering. Why are love and suffering connected as such? In The Aeneid, Aeneas suffered a great deal and then was fated to lead his people to Italy and Rome. Aeneas "marries" the Queen of Carthage, Dido, who eventually kills herself out of despair. In Dracula, Elizabetha takes her life after being informed that her beloved prince was slewed in the...
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Royal Family Years Ago
1,305 wordsOur story begins over 600 years ago, during the time of kings, queens, knights, and magic. Our hero Trevor, age 14 now, is an outcast. Shunned by both sides of his family, For he is half human, half vampire. For six years now, he has lived alone, surviving in the wild by himself. From a distance, he looks like any young man. but as you get closer, you notice small differences. His skin is a deathly pale. He leaves no shadow, yet he can survive during the day, but prefers the night. And if you ca...
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Bram Stoker Anti Christian
407 wordsBy NVOT Student, 6 / 00 Bram Stoker s classic Dracula, first published in 1897, is a mystifying horror tale concerning the war of good versus evil, ages old, yet forever new. It is the gothic narrative of the undead creatures of the night, and the human lives they touch, seeking to satiate the cursed craving for their only sustenance human blood. Throughout all this, Stoker weaves intriguing juxtapositions of light and dark, good and evil, the holy and the damned, as the book s title character p...
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Helping To Kill Van Helsing Dracula
355 wordsIn Dracula by Bram Stoker there are many characters that could be called a hero. Some of these heroes could be John Harker for identifying The Count and helping to kill him. Quick for helping to kill The Count and Sacrificing himself in the end, or even Van Helsing for finding the facts about Dracula and how he must die. But upon closer examination there is no real hero in Dracula. Harker and Morris may have helped rid the world of such an evil, and Van Helsing may have Noticed the threat and he...
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Dracula Between Tradition Dracula Between Tradition And Modernism Castle
758 wordsThe Spirit of a late Victorian Age. With reference to Bram Stokers Dracula. Stokers monstrous figure, Count Dracula, has today reached epic and almost mythical proportions, like Frankenstein (not the doctor), the Gordon Medusa, even Virginia Woolf (thanks to Albee). Like the aforementioned examples, what we associate in our minds to be these monsters, mostly conditioned by popular culture and Hollywood, are merely visual representation. In the novel itself, however, according to other essayists ...
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20 Th Century 19 Th Century
1,717 wordsDracula and its overwhelming appeal in the 20 th Century Alia Lamaadar Mrs. Schuett 12 English March 5, 1999 Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they have passed. (Temple, Sir William). Bram Stokers Dracula is a literary classic, which has stood the test of time. Dracula, written in 1897, makes reference to mythical creatures, which in the 20 th century have substantial scientific merit. In the increasingly publicized culture of modern ...
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20 Th Century 19 Th Century
1,713 wordsDracula and its overwhelming appeal in the 20 th Century Alia Lamaadar 12 English March 5, 1999 Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they have passed. (Temple, Sir William). Bram Stokers Dracula is a literary classic, which has stood the test of time. Dracula, written in 1897, makes reference to mythical creatures, which in the 20 th century have substantial scientific merit. In the increasingly publicized culture of modern society, the ...
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Jonathan Harker First Person
748 wordsThe Dracula Bram Stokers Dracula The setting of the story begins in 19 th century Europe, in the eerie country of Transylvania. A solicitor from England named Jonathan Harker is sent by a business man to meet with an old Count named Dracula at his castle located far from civilization. Residents of Transylvania who become aware of his destination begin crossing themselves and giving him garlic and blessings. As a result of these gestures, Mr. Harker soon develops an uneasy feeling about visiting ...
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Lowest Common Normal Human
1,335 wordsIn Bram Stoker s Dracula, vampires act as principles of mixing in many ways. Dracula comes from Transylvania, which is a land of many people, and his castle is located on the border of three states. Dracula himself describes the place as the whirlpool of European races, and boasts, in [his] veins flows the blood of many brave races (p. 28). Dracula wishes to go to London, to the crowded streets with a variety of people. He takes blood from everybody, and gives it to others (Mina, albeit for his ...
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Good And Evil Bram Stoker
1,410 wordsWhere Dracula Stoker v. s Coppola Where there is no imagination there is no horror. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Imagination is the force that keeps human desires alive. It is a state that allows someone to give up repression and indulge into temptation. Where the conscious mind is a state of composed and rational behaviour, imagination becomes the unconscious setting into a world of countless fantasies where one does not need to worry about the consequences. However, civilization is built on the fact...
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Dracula Long Find Blood
326 wordsThe creation of this monster was actually based upon a Romanian myth, (derived from the word dracula-devil) which implied the existence of vampires or the undead, as Stoker says. But, let? s look at this novel in a different way. Who was Dracula? As a historical person, Dracula II Types was either a part of the Ottoman Empire and existed as their advisory for Romania. On the other hand, people say that Dracula was their helper, who destroyed the Turks by torturing them, we can find this in Dracu...
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Count Dracula Lives Puts Harker England
244 wordsDRACULABasically, the setting of the book is in the Castle Dracula, on a high mountain in Transylvania. Here the Count, Dracula lives. He has never been seen during the day, and most of the residents in Transylvania know that something evil takes place the castle in which Count Dracula lives in, but none of them will speak about it. Jonathan Harker, a young Englishman, is invited to stay in the castle of Dracula to stay in as a guest. Every night though, when Mister Harker goes to his room to st...
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Kill A Vampire Needed To Be Decapitated Dracula
604 wordsIn Draculas Death Dracula's Death In Bram Strokers infamous novel, Dracula, he tries to explain the life of the undead, then continues to explain how to kill these creatures of the night. We find out that you must stab a vampire in the heart with a wooden stake, and then slash off their head. This is the only way that we are led to believe that you may be able to kill these undead. We learn this through Stokers vampire expert Van Helsing, he seems to be the most educated on the subject of the un...
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