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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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Point In The Story Van Helsing
1,349 words1. Speaks of history as if he was there 2. Legend in the story states that "un-dead" will go on for eternity 3. Dracula himself states "Time is on my side. " B. Blood gives him strength and restored vitality 1. Dracula looks younger after consuming blood 2. Renfield explains what Dracula is doing to Mina C. Ability to heal injuries much faster that normal men 1. Throws himself through a window and emerges unhurt 2. This explains the difficulty involved with killing a vampire 1. Harker describes ...
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Similes And Metaphors Sylvia Plath
1,095 wordsSylvia Plath's poetry is well known for its deeply personal and emotional subject matter. Much of Plath's poetry is confessional and divulges the most intimate parts of her psyche whether through metaphor or openly, without creating a persona through which to project her feelings, and through the use of intense imagery. Plath's attempt to purge herself of the oppressive male figures in her life is one such deeply personal and fundamental theme in her poetry. In her poem, Daddy, which declares he...
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Gilgamesh Epic Eternal Life
1,025 wordsHumanity has always been fascinated with the allure of immortality and although in the beginning vampires were not a symbol of this, as time passed and society changed so did the ideas and perceptions surrounding them. The most important thing to ask yourself at this point is What is immortality?' Unfortunately this isn't as easily answered as asked. The Merriam Webster Dictionary says immortality is the quality or state of being immortal; esp: unending existence' while The World Book Encycloped...
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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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Sylvia Plath Ive Killed
1,027 wordsSylvia Plath uses her poem, Daddy, to express intense emotions towards her fathers life and death and her disastrous relationship with her husband. The speaker in this poem is Sylvia Plath who has lost her father at age ten, at a time when she still adored him unconditionally. Then she gradually realizes the oppressing dominance of her father, and compares him to a Nazi, a devil, and a vampire. Later, the conflict of this relationship continues with her husband which led to a short and painful m...
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Daddy By Sylvia Plath
1,112 wordsDaddy by Sylvia Plath The paper will be concentrated on the discussion of the poem Daddy, written by Sylvia Plath, in connection with her personal life and the life of the society with its integral phenomena of female victimization and patriarchy. The poem was written in 1963, at the period of the brightest flourishing of patriarchy and female victimization. The poem is read through the prism of Plath's hatred towards her father and husband, though the main thesis of this work will be the follow...
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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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Moon Beasts Werewolves Children And Thier Children Caine
1,471 wordsThe preface to this book is very cool. I know that this book is totally fictional, and is in no way real, but the preface makes the book sound like it was written from ancient scrolls and manuscripts that were uncovered through his journals. The preface describes how he was able to get all of the material to write the book. It is incredibly detailed and extremely vague at the same time if that is possible. With all of the history and this mans travels in the preface, it seems like the book is wr...
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Veronica Veil Devil By Anne Rice Lestat
679 wordsMemnoch the Devil by Anne Rice Killing, kidnapping and battles, all parts of Memnoch the Devil by Anne Rice. The main character, Lestat, is a well-known and flamboyant vampire. In Memnoch the Devil, Lestat is faced with a grim reality, causing his world to collapse around him. He learns throughout this book, about the world, and the divine forces that encircle the world? s existence. This book illustrates how Lestat? s morals, ignorance and understanding are greatly affected by outside forces. I...
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Sylvia Plath Norma Jean
950 wordsSylvia Plath? s? Daddy? , Flannary O? Connor? s? Good Country People? , and Bobbie Ann Mason? s? Shiloh? all have something in common. In each, the relationship between a parent and child is discussed. It is left up to the reader to decide the nature of the relationship. Although what stands out in Sylvia Plath? s poem Daddy is the Nazi imagery, it is interesting to note that the father is not called a Nazi in the first half of the poem. In the first stanza he is a black shoe / In which [she has...
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Fifty Six Six Years
1,109 wordsOne of the worlds best movies is Casablanca. Many things made this movie to the fine a movie as it was. Things such as the actors, lighting, costume, camera, and even the sound. People watching this movie can feel both caught up and detached from the plot at the same time. The Plot and Sub-Plot work so well with the setting as well. It appeals to many differnt audiences. If one has a morbid and odd mind, such as mine, it can be compared to modern movies such as John Carpenters Vampires. This mov...
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Didn T Understand Don T Understand
557 wordsMany science fiction stories fall into similar categories based on theme. It is also true that a particular story may have more then one theme contained in the work. In the Novel Doomsday Conspiracy, written by Sidney Sheldon, a very strong and powerful theme stands out. Human beings fear what they don t understand. We all fear what we can t explain. This is also present in the story Share Alike. In Doomsday Conspiracy, Admiral Whittaker fears what he cannot understand. He is afraid, as well as ...
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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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Van Helsing Young Woman
341 wordsBram Stokers characters? Dracula central character of the book: An old vampire who lives in a crumbling castle in Transylvania. As the book begins, he is planning to move to England, where he can feed on fresh blood. When we first meet him, Dracula is described as an old man with a white mustache, and he appears courtly and charming; as the book progresses and feeds upon his victims, he grows younger and becomes more like a beast. ? Van Helsing A professor, who is described by his former pupil D...
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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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Mortals And The Immortals Anne Rice Characters
358 wordsThis novel, Interview with the Vampire, by Anne Rice, is by far one of the best book I ve ever read. It started with a young boy interviewing a vampire, and the vampire related him the whole story of his life, how he became a vampire, his thrilling adventures through the centuries and his complex relationships with both the mortals and the immortals. In my opinion, Anne Rice had done the best of jobs. The writing and the detailed descriptions, the composing of this novel, had brought out every e...
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Rebel Vampires Queen Lestat
340 wordsQueen of the Damned is basically the story of the origin of vampires. All vampires originated from a single vampire, Akasha, and she became known as the queen. The queen and her king, Email the first vampire she ever created, sit atop their throne in a comatose state. They are so powerful that they no longer need to feed on the blood of humans. In this story Lestat, who is hated and hunted by his fellow vampires for telling humans he is a vampire, awakens the queen by biting her neck The queen t...
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Ancient Rites Pale Skin Blood
1,432 wordsVincent The Vampire The darkness breathed in the cavernous tomb. The walls of granite that formed their underground catacombs had served as a shelter and a symbol. They were carved with the ancient rites and laws that governed their species and glowed now as if alive through the inconstant flickering of a single torch blazing in the center of the central cavern. To those in the room, the darkness was not their cloak. It revealed all to their pale eyes. The circle of light was empty, devoid even ...
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