“The face at the window” Journal article by Heather Neilson Item description: The Gothic novel is characterised by several established features: the supernatural, passion, violence and fear. In this article Heather Neilson examines the predominate characteristics of a genre which emerged as a response to a period of instability in personal, social and political life. Whether conservatively defined as referring to a group of novels written by English authors between the 1760s and the 1820s-
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Have you ever looked at your history teacher and thought he was a little pale? Not your average pale, but ghostly pale, almost vampire pale? Is the delivery man a little hairy? And toothy? An unable to deliver on full moons? These scenarios are fully plausible in Cassandra Clare’s City of Bones, the first book in The Mortal Instruments series. It was originally a trilogy, with the City of Glass being the finale, but readers begged for more, and Clare added three more books to the series and included
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High school is hard enough for most kids, but for half vampire Vlad, it really bites. First there's his blood cravings and how exactly do you sneak a pint of Blood into your lunchbox? Then there's his big fangs, his ever developing powers that Vlad doesn't how capacity of and the fact that his crush seems to have a thing for his best friend. Add to the mix a strange substitute teacher who makes myths and urban legends the focus of their English lessons, forcing Vlad to confront his dark side in a
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Dracula is a book where the focus is on balance. The balance between innocence and evil; religion and science; knowledge and being oblivious, and logical and emotional balance. Many of the characters within Dracula portray the necessity to have this balance. Van Helsing represented the balance between religion and science and how together the ability to perceive situations is broader. In the same scene, once seeing vampire Lucy, Seward was able to look past his love for Lucy and understand what was
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Critique of “(Un)safe Sex: Romancing the Vampire” In this article Backstein explains the important shift that occurred during the start of the Twilight Series and similar blood sucking tales. Furthermore today’s vampires are viewed as appealing and moral. The movies likewise portray vampires as having a feeling of discretion. They demonstrate the problems they face to defeat their allurements. Backstein also emphasizes the importance of female roles in these films. Her quality, remarkable
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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
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Back in 2008, vampires movies was forever changed by the downright horrible, yet popular teen Twilight films. These motion pictures made so much money, that whatever story one could insert a vampire in, was done, so to also cash in on the fad. Besides films, television programs, and books, also polluted the landscape. Worse thing was most times, the is they made these bloodsuckers the most un-coolest characters one could imagine. They had emotions, and feelings. Storylines were filled with angst
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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
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Macbeth by William Shakespeare is one of the most famous plays of all time. The play is located in Scotland, which is known for having the most exquisite castles more than any other country in the world. In fact, most tourism to Scotland is to see these well known castles. Old Slains Castle is one of the many famous castles in Scotland, which is located on the Aberdeenshire coastal trail. Old Slains Castle is famous for the Scottish Independence Wars, The Earl of Erroll and the Condition of the castle
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3. Otherness and the Empire In Small Island, as well as Dracula, the uncanny is linked to concepts of otherness and orientalism. Within the orientalist mind-set exists a clear distinction between the oriental "other" and the occident (Said, Orientalism 2). The East is represented as weak (Said, Orientalism 152) and feminised (Said, Orientalism 309) whereas the West is strong (Said, Orientalism 321) and masculine (Said, Orientalism 309). In his work Orientalism, Edward Said remarks that in orientalist
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