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
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Joselline Plascencia English 1302.011 Dr. Veronica Pantoja 2/22/2016 Count Dracula Count Dracula is practically the protagonist and antagonist of this book. The book is literally named after him. Bram Stoker, the author, describes the count as “a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white mustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere…[h]is face was strong- a very strong-
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Redemption in Dracula” she examines the theme of the stark contrasts between pure and unclean. Pollution in the sense the writer was going for does not mean landfills and gas guzzlers, but when the unclean taints the pure. Going beyond the surface definition, the book Dracula has many instances of contrasting values surrounding the thoughts of purity. The ideas of good and evil, life and death, new and old, and civilization and savagery are examined throughout the novel. Dracula as a whole is
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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
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Leon Ritchens Dr. O’Brien Approaches to Literature 11/14/13 Dracula Supernatural In Bram Stoker’s Dracula, the Count is equipped with the some powers that set him aside from the other characters in the book. These powers allow him to be on a higher tier than the humans he hunts which gives him an edge on the field of battle. Dracula was a Transylvanian count who happened to be a vampire. We are introduced to Dracula as a potential customer of an opulent piece of real estate in London. He
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is a popular adage found when speaking of Dracula (although not found in Bram Stoker’s Dracula). Is it because it is his life line? The short answer would be yes, but is that all it is to Dracula? No. It is in fact the basic human life line. Without blood, there can be no human life. The same rings true for the undead, which is the case of Dracula. Blood is the essential fluid for all beings on Earth but blood stands for more in Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Blood also produces other underlying topics
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Dracula Name Course code Instructor’s name University name City, State Date of submission Introduction In this paper, I will attempt to examine the novel Dracula as authored by Stoker. I will be looking to determine whether or not it can be classified as a Gothic novel. Initially, I will present a short story of the Gothic and dwell briefly on the era of its publication. The paper will also examine the various characteristics that are common amongst gothic literature so as to run
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which trickled from the corners of the mouth and ran over the chin and neck” (Stoker 58). If I were a prop master directing the film version of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, I would make sure to include four specific props in my film that I believe to be essential to the story: a coffin, dirt from the earth, a crucifix, and blood. In the story Dracula, Stoker utilizes creepy objects associated with funerals and the dead to prove that though these items traditionally symbolize death upon first glance, from
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Dracula Essay Since the beginning of time, it has become culturally accepted that men are the stronger, preeminent gender in society. Throughout history, it can be seen that males, as a whole, have been perceived as dominant and impervious species to which nothing is inferior. Women were considered insignificant and useful only for irrelevant tasks. Evidence of this can be seen throughout the world, from prehistoric cave paintings in Lascaux, France dated back to 17000 BCE. in which men are depicted
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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
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