...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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...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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... 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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...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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...resentment for molds that people contrive themselves to fit. The one scene with Caulfield sitting in the bathtub depressed after refusing sex from a hooker will always be infused into my constant sub consciousness. When I just feel worn out and pushed to my emotional limit, I see that image burned bright into my memory because that scene is the ultimate depiction of frustration and stress. Although, this style of writing may be beautiful, sometimes it is nice to escape the hyperrealism captured in a book like Catcher in The Rye, and instead read something that expands the mind’s imagination. The contrary to the book that affirms one’s emotions and ideas is the book that challenges one’s conception of reality. A book such as Bram Stoker’s Dracula has the unique ability to really push the envelope on one’s conception of reality. Stoker undergoes writing a novel, which completely strays from what was believed to be the reality of that time. Late Victorian England was dominated by the belief that logic...
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...In Bram Stoker's Dracula, the most blatant and powerful symbol is blood. He takes the blood that means so much to the believers of this legend and has it represent more than even they could imagine. Blood is the main object associated with vampires and vampirism. From a mythical standpoint, it is the basis of life for the vampires as they feed off of the blood of young, vibrant souls. From a more scientific standpoint blood is what would drip out of the corpse's mouth when family members would dig up their dead kin to check for the dreaded disease. Stoker takes the significance of this symbol and puts his own unique twist to the meaning of blood. He combines the traditional folklore of vampirism and the immense sexual undertones of the Victorian era to create a simply horrific tale which completely confuses the emotions of his readers. Stoker knew bloods importance in vampire history and used the overwhelming symbolism to convey his own personal lust and sexual obsessions. The scenes where Lucy is receiving transfusions; first from Holmwood, then from Seward, and the unforgettable vampire baptism between Dracula and Mina all have these very erotic, sexual feelings associated with them. What makes these so powerful is the combination of violence and sex. As a reader, you know that what Dracula is doing are horrific and wrong, but because they are so sexually described and associated you think you should enjoy them, but you can't. This is the confusion which stoker implements into...
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...“The role of women in the gothic genre is as victims, always subject to male authority.” Compare and contrast the extent to which this interpretation is relevant to your three chosen texts. “The wolf consumes red riding hood – what else can you expect if you talk to strange men, comments Perrault briskly. Let’s not bother our heads with the mysteries of sadomasochistic attraction” Angela Carter; Foreword to Perrault’s Short Stories. In much of today’s feminist writings, the Gothic era is frequently defined as a period in which the oppression of females was at its most intense. In response to fin de siècle anxieties of a social revolution in which gender stereotypes could be overhauled, gothic writers, it is claimed, sought to reassert cultural and gender norms – a reassertion which inevitably resulted in the oppression of women. In view of such contemporary analysis, it is thus all too tempting to offer a sweeping judgement of gothic literature as victimising, oppressive and misogynistic; Dracula’s “victims” are all “unambiguously women[1]”, Poe victimises through an “idealised and dehumanising image of women[2]”, while Carter is a “pseudo feminist” who merely “reinforces patriarchal views” with her “pornographic” writing[3]. Yet such views are largely artificial, and are primarily based on potted summaries of the above works, rather than a closer textual analysis. If one takes the definition of a victim as a being who is subject to the successful predatory actions of...
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...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 another aspect, that of a supernatural being, these items provide life. Stoker also overlaps and relates behavior and beliefs of vampires, to stories and beliefs of Christianity found throughout the Bible, in a twisted way. Though these two objects normally apply to living and being born again, Stoker reveals and illustrates how these holy and cleansing props can elicit death and darkness as well. These four props, two associated with death and two with life, enhance the story as they prove their complexity to individually represent both life and death. #7 #7 #2 #2 Throughout the novel, Count Dracula exhibits multiple and unique purposes of coffins and common dirt. Typically, only the dead find lasting use out of a coffin. However, #5 #5 Count Dracula proves otherwise when it comes to his sleeping arrangements. As Jonathan Harker, a young man completely oblivious to the existence of vampires, finds himself curious and suspicious of Dracula and his true identity. Harker sets out to explore the mansion he...
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...Vampire Diaries This is an popular TV series about vampires, werewolves, witches, and hybrids. Full of history, past, present, and future. This is all fiction related, things such as this don’t exist well not in our living world. First let’s start off with the cast, main character Elena Gilbert formal human, friends Bonnie and Caroline, being caught in the trap of two vampires that are brothers, both deeply are in love with her. Stefan Salvatore her first love she fell for. Damon Salvatore as Stefan turned away her love grew stronger for Damon. They both longed to have her as they did with Katherine Petrova (Pierce), ex-lover toying with both the Salvatore brothers. Jeremy Gilbert also a human, turns out to be Elena’s cousin but refers to him as brother cause that is how she knows him as. Jenna Sommers, Aunt to Elena and Jeremy until she is later is killed in a sacrifice by an Original Vampire, Klaus. Bonnie Bennett, a powerful Bennett witch, Elena and Caroline’s best friend. Caroline Forbes, Bonnie and Elena's best friend, was a normal human being at first but is turned into a vampire by Katherine Pierce killing her with Damon’s blood in her system, daughter of Sheriff Forbes. Matt Donovan, Elena’s childhood friend and ex-lover, still remains as a human. Vicki Donovan, drug addict, sister of Matt, was dating Tyler but is more interested in Jeremy. Turned into a vampire by Damon and shortly killed by Stefan for trying to kill Elena, she is now a ghost. Tyler Lockwood, trigger...
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...A werewolf, also known as a lycanthrope (from the Greek λυκάνθρωπος lykánthropos: λύκος, lykos, "wolf", and ἄνθρωπος, anthrōpos, "man"), is a mythological or folkloric human with the ability to shapeshift into a wolf or a therianthropic hybrid wolf-like creature, either purposely or after being placed under a curse or affliction (e.g. via a bite or scratch from another werewolf). Early sources for belief in lycanthropy are Petronius and Gervase of Tilbury. The werewolf is a widespread concept in European folklore, existing in many variants which are related by a common development of a Christian interpretation of underlying European folklore which developed during the medieval period. From the early modern period, werewolf beliefs also spread to the New World with colonialism. Belief in werewolves developed in parallel to the belief in witches, in the course of the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern period. Like the witchcraft trials as a whole, the trial of supposed werewolves emerged in what is now Switzerland (especially the Valais and Vaud) in the early 15th century and spread throughout Europe in the 16th, peaking in the 17th and subsiding by the 18th century. The persecution of werewolves and the associated folklore is an integral part of the "witch-hunt" phenomenon, albeit a marginal one, accusations of werewolfery being involved in only a small fraction of witchcraft trials.[1] During the early period, accusations of lycanthropy (transformation into a wolf) were mixed...
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