...When you hear the word Dracula, what words do you associate with him? Dead, scary, vampire? For most, it would be all of the above. However, when speaking about Dracula, no one hardly utter the word man. Dracual depiction drew a fine line of him being both man and monster, but can we really say that he is of man when his able to turn into different creatures? Dracula's complex personality and human form will be discussed throughly in this essay, while also touching on the subject of his sexual needs and wants. When Stoker's character, Dracula is first described in the novel he is described as having a very stong face, thin nose, lofty forehead, massive eyebrows and a rather cruel looking mouth and moustache (22). Reading a description as such does not make the reader 'fall' for Dracula. His description instantly puts fear into the character because his facial characteristics are described like no other, or at least nothing of the familiar. Despite his physical appearance Dracula seems like a very nice and welcoming being. He was nice enough to open his home to Jonathan Harker, he is providing him with a place to stay, and making sure he is fed, sounds like the perfect host, no? Well as Dracula's 'real ways' are revealed throughout the novel, he begins holding Harker hostage, although he could always leave, he just risked being eaten alive by Dracula's mystique power over the wolves. As we read the novel and see that Dracula has the ability to climb walls and spends his sunlight...
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...The Art of Deception in Dracula "Be not deceived with the first appearance of things, for show is not substance" (English Proverb). Abraham Stoker, the author of Dracula, initially presents Count Dracula as a man of nobility, moral decency, and kindness. However, as Jonathan Harker learns more about Dracula, he discovers the otherworldliness, deceptiveness, and cruel intentions of Dracula. Stoker illustrates the Count in this manner to remove the disguise of the Victorian era. From 1837 to 1901, the people of London, England cloaked themselves with wealth, peace, and confidence through their expansions of land and population. However, Londoners were corrupt with their expectations of gender and society, while their city was grimy and impoverished....
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...You cannot talk about the development of the vampire hunters without talking about the development of the vampires themselves. Vampires have changed and developed so much since the days of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. They’ve turned from creatures of the night that you feared would turn you into something unspeakable and kill you to something that you long to be. They’re no longer feared but desired. You can’t talk about the development of vampire hunters without speaking of where vampires first started and where they’ve gone now. You start off with Nosferatu and the concept of “vampire hunters” as a book Johnathan Harker finds on his way to Count Dracula’s mansion. He reads it in an inn and ends up taking it with him, after meeting with the Count,...
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...Dracula 1931 Directed by: Tod Browning and Karl Freund Writing Credits: Bram Stoker, Hamilton Deane, John L Balderston, Garrett Fort, Louis Bromfield, Tod Browning, Max Cohen, Dudley Murphy, Louis Stevens Producers: E.M. Asher, Tod Browing, Carl Laemmle Jr Cinematographer: Karl Freund Film Editing: Milton Carruth Art Direction: Charles D. Hall Production Management: John Hoffman, Herman Rosse Second Unit Director or Assistant Director: Scott R. Beal, Herman Schlom Sound Department: C. Roy Hunter, Jack Bolger, Jack Foley, William Hedgcock Art Department: John Hoffman, Charles A. Logue, Herman Rosse Camera and Electrical Department: Frank H. Booth, Joseph Brotherton, Roman Freulich, King D. Gray Script Supervisor: Cast: Count Dracula………Bela Lugosi Mina………………...Helen Chandler John Harker…………David Manners Renfield……………..Dwight Frye Van Helsing…………Edward Van Sloan Doctor Seward………Herbert Bunston Lucy…………………Frances Dade Maid…………………Joan Standing Martin……………….Charles K. Gerrard Innkeeper’s Daugher..Anna Bakacs Coach Passenger………..Nicholas Bela Innkeepers Wife………..Barbara Bozoky Harbormaster…………...Tod Browning Maid……………………Moon Carroll Dracula’s Wife…………Geraldine Dvorak Small Scientist………….John George Flower Girl……………..Anita Harder Coach Passenger……….Carla Laemmle Coach Passenger………Donald Murphy Surgeon……………….Wyndham Standing Dracula’s Wife………..Cornelia Thaw Dracula’s Wife………..Dorothy Tree Grace-English Nurse….Josephine Velez Innkeeper………………Michael...
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...1 ENGL 101 CPA-CRN The Evolution of Vampire Relationships. When we think about vampires we think about undead beings who suck blood out of living beings. In literature, these beings were depicted as less than human. Authors gave them an ugly face with big fang like incisors and animal type instincts. Within the last few decades however, authors have described vampires as more human. The vampire was given the body of a handsome/ beautiful human; in addition, they were given more human characteristics such as feelings, and emotions. However, the most important characteristic that has been ascribed to vampires is the ability to have relationships with people and other vampires. This characteristic has caused vampires to change from an inherently evil character into one that can make choices i.e based on emotion and not because of primal instinct. This has made vampire books and movies more appealing to the general population. One of the most successful vampire series is the Twilight series. The books and movies thrived because the story was different from other vampire stories. The series focused more on love rather than the killing of humans and other creatures. This causes readers to come up with a question like the following: Are vampires capable of loving someone like humans can? When the concept of vampires was first created, they were depicted as solitary creatures. The closest they came to having relationships was when they went to feed. They usually feed...
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...Draculas Homep Elizabeth Miller, REFLECTIONS ON DRACULA from Transylvania Press REFLECTIONS ON DRACULA is a collection of ten non-sequential essays written by Elizabeth Miller (with the exception of one, co-authored by Margaret L. Carter). The essays draw on Miller's broad experience as both a scholar and an aficionado. Five focus on Stoker's novel, while the others five examine questions of context and influence. TABLE OF CONTENTS: 1. Vlad Tepes vs Count Dracula [Exactly what is the connection between Count Dracula and the historical Vlad the Impaler? Not as much as most people think....] 2. Has Dracula Lost His Fangs? (co-authored by Margaret L. Carter) [Elizabeth Miller and Margaret Carter examine what has happened to the vampire since Stoker's novel.] 3. Typing Transylvania [Why do we associate Transylvania with vampires? Should we?] 4. Life as a Dracula Aficionado [Elizabeth Miller recounts in anecdotal fashion some of her experiences as a Dracula scholar and fan.] 5. Adventures in Draculand [Want to visit sites associated with Dracula? Take this armchair vacation with Elizabeth.] 6. The Fearless Vampire Hunters [A re-assessment of the "heroes" of Stoker's novel.] 7. Frankenstein and Dracula [Miller examines the relationship between Frankenstein and Dracula - which goes back quite a long way!] 8. Dracula and Shakespeare [Stoker's knowledge of Shakespeare, gleaned from years working at the Lyceum Theatre...
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...of years about these blood sucking monsters, but what is the story behind it all? How was the thought of an immortal blood drinking being originated? It all started long ago… Body VLAD THE IMPALER! 1. Born to Vlad Dracul (dragon) in late 1431 2. Vlad Dracul head of the order of the dragon, high honor, called himself Dracula 3. Throne threatened- father and older brother died, devoted to revenge. 4. 1469 he regained the throne- the blood bath begins 5. Kept slaves to build castle, tortured and punished. 6. held social status and power very high – rid his kingdom of poor/homeless/handicap by burning 7. Rumors: ate flesh, drank blood. Held dinner parties next to impaled Bram Stoker 1. 1897 Bram Stoker wrote Dracula 2. general plot summary of Dracula 3. Derived from Vlad Dracula / Carmilla (Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, 1872) 4. Dracula the movie (1931) 5. Pale complexion, fangs, blood thirsty, soulless, etc… Modern Day Vampires 1. Vampire rules vary from show to show and movie to movie 2. Often associated with special powers. 3. Werewolf enemies 4. Often keep the same qualities of Dracula Conclusion: Vampires have come a long way over the years. The story of their past has taken you from non-fiction to fiction, and all is filled with all sorts of awesome horror. I can’t decide which part of the history I like the most the old or the new, but I do know one thing, those Cullen’s sure are hot. Bibliography ...
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...attention grasping, and addicting. Dracula by Bram Stoker is just another novel made into the film Bram Stoker’s Dracula by Francis Ford Coppola. Distinct changes take place from the novel on paper to the film on the screen. The characters of Dracula, Lucy, and Mina tend to share some of the same characteristics in both the film and novel, but the movie changes aspects of the characters to be more sensational and dramatic. Just as the characters are changed and reshaped, the plot has tweaks of its own. The novel and the film have similarities, but the differences are clearly visible. Count Dracula is portrayed as animal and beast-like in both Dracula and Bram Stoker’s Dracula; he also displays aspects of humanity. Within Dracula, Count Dracula survives by quenching his thirst for blood. He is driven by this yearning for blood and nothing seems to get in his way. He has the attributes of a lion in search of its prey and feeding off of it; he cannot control it, nor does he want to stop. Killing does not disturb him in the least, and he is in search of power. He displays the characteristics of a beast through his continual vicious, grueling slaughtering of his prey- humans. He feels no remorse for his process of survival and life; he is a savage beast. However, the Count appears to be human and has human qualities; he can walk, talk, and breathe just like the average human. Count Dracula also controls a ferocious animal named the wolf within Dracula. The wolf comes at his call and...
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...THE HORRIFYING INSTRUCTIONS: Work two and two. Do all three exercises below and upload your answer as a group assignment on lectio BY THE END OF THE MODULE. It will be evaluated for grammar and language. You will need one computer per group to do the assignment. 1) Look up this trailer for the classic horror film The Shining (1980) on the internet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S014oGZiSdI Remember that trailers are meant to make people want to see the film. This film is obviously meant to scare the viewers, shock them, make them look away, maybe give them nightmares. My question is: Why on earth does this work for most people? Why do you think that we like horror movies? (Your answer must be about 100 words). Because the scare makes us exited, it’s something we dosen’t experience in everyday life and therefor it makes it more interesting, It releases some substances in the brain that makes you excited and happy. 2) Look up these two-sentence horror stories on the internet: http://justsomething.co/20-terrifying-two-sentence-horror-stories-that-will-make-you-hold-your-breath/ Now write your own two-sentence horror stories and pick the best two for your assignment He woke up, again. Helle bagger, being naked. 3) Look at the picture on the next page. Close your eyes and imagine that you are walking up to the castle at dusk, alone. You unlock the chains of the giant rusty gates and hear them slam shut behind you as you make your way towards the main entrance...
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...Bram Stoker’s Dracula is a novel focused on vampirism during Victorian time. Vampirism is a curse that awakens the dead as blood sucking monsters, however, it is also a metaphor or a symbol for disease. Vampirism can correlate with animal related illness such as rabies and bubonic plague seen in Dracula’s transformations. Although associating with animal related disease vampirism can also be associated with venereal disease such as syphilis shown in Dracula through the infection of Lucy and Mina. Vampirism rate of infection is closely related to the infectious theory. Bram Stoker’s Dracula is riddled with text that supports disease. “As the count leaned over me and his hands touched me, I could not repress a shudder. It may have been that his breath was rank, but a horrible feeling of nausea came over me, which do what I would, I could not conceal. The count, evidently noticing it, drew back; and with a grim sort of smile, which showed more than he had yet done this protuberant teeth, sat himself down again on his own side of the fireplace” (Stoker 24). Specifically, “shudder”, “rank”, “nausea”, and “grim” all words hinting toward Dracula’s ill presence. These words are being used to describe an encounter with Dracula, they also happen to be the same words that could be used when describing illness. Dracula was written in a time when little was known or understood of infectious disease. However, while reading the novel’s subtext one can believe that vampirism and infection...
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...Dracula is a Gothic horror novel written in 1897 by an Irishman named Bram Stoker. At the turn of the century, when Stoker wrote this novel, England and much of Europe had fought and overthrown the Feudal systems of Aristocracy and the middle class morality of the Victorian bourgeois was held as the epitome of proper living. England was emerging as a Capitalist power after squashing its foreign invaders. It was this environment that influenced Stoker to characterize his villain as a blood sucking, blue blooded aristocrat. Dracula, as the mouldering aristocrat, is the foreign parasite who, literally sucked the lifeblood of the peasants. By casting Dracula as a Gothic aristocratic villain, Stoker, dramatized for middle-class audiences the exaggerated...
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...Anthony LeBaron Bakomihalis English IV 12 November 2014 Dracula the told story “The blood is the life” (Stoker 156). Dracula will have many ways of expressing its themes to modern audiences on how it relates to the book and the present. How the superstation can have an effect on the supernatural and the non-believer seeing what is real or not. How the role of religion was a key factor and how it helps them throughout the book. Also the modernity and how it has advance from the 1800s to present day. The book Dracula, by Bram Stoker relates to the modern audience though the theme of superstition, the role of religion and modernity. Superstition What is superstition? Is it more of a belief as in religion or supernatural forces? The define meaning for superstition is excessively credulous belief in and reverence for supernatural beings, but there are different meanings to...
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... River answered. “Yes I can. I’m the chosen leader and I have the power to eliminate Vampires that disobey a direct command. They chose me to carry this power I’m one of the few that would never abuse it. However, what a Vampire does when I’m not around, and before I can administer a decree cannot be stopped or undone. He can only be punished for his action. I was telling Grandma Rae that all the women would need to stay at my place in order for me to protect them.” Rae almost verbally sighed at the sound of his deep voice. Rae glanced around the bar making sure no one was listening before she whispered. “Must you say the word ‘Vampire’ out loud? People will hear and assume we have lost our minds. And just because you say the words doesn’t mean they are obligated to follow, people break the law every day.” River realized that even though she had been told the truth Rae had not accepted what he was, and didn’t understand his power as their leader. River was sitting and worrying over his chance of marking her if she doesn’t even fully understand what he is? Rae noticed he kept getting a nervous expression on his face and she finally asked. “Why are you getting a nervous expression on your face? You’re a… Vampire for crying out loud what could you possibly be nervous about?” River swallowed hard and his pale skin turned a light tint of pink high on his cheekbones. Rae covered her mouth with her hand as she quietly laughed, she realized he was blushing like a little girl. River...
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...As a child I was always frightened by vampires, and evil spirits. Due to books and movies like Dracula, I am still fearful of evil spirits. Dracula is the embodiment of evil and has affected the way vampires are portrayed today. This can be seen by Bram Stoker's character of Dracula, the use of a dark setting, Dracula’s unusual abilities and the fact that Dracula is a vampire. But what do I know? How sinister could Dracula actually be? A dark setting can set the mood for the entire story. As we see in Dracula, the dark setting gives off a creepy and scary mood, the perfect mood for evil and vampires. Bram Stoker does a great job of describing the dark setting. Jonathan Harker’s trip to Castle Dracula was very unusual and also creepy. Jonathan...
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...young men, hence the vampire legend. There are many legends which contain an ancestor to the vampire legend. In Greek mythology, Lamia, a once mortal half woman half snake, would suck blood from infants. These are all examples of “early vampires”, the modern vampire was more directly influenced by the folklore of eastern Europe. One name for an eastern European vampire is Strigoi. These type creatures were also called Vampir, or Vampyr, hence the English word vampire. In the 17th and 18th centuries a wave of vampire hysteria rolled across Europe. During this time people reported seeing dead relatives walking around and attacking the living (howstuffworks). The best block in the evolution of the modern vampire is of course, Dracula, Bram Stoker’s character. His character can’t stand the sunlight, hates crucifixes and is very intelligent. Sound familiar? These characteristics accompany the vampires of today, vampires in novels and movies. Today there are vampires, no vampires in a way you would expect. Vampirism today is more of a culture. Sufferers of vampirism believe they are vampires. There are two types of vampires, sanguine and...
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