time to go see a play about Dracula. I went to see Bram Stoker’s Dracula directed by Dan Hodge at the Hedgerow Theatre. Dracula is the story about Lucy Steward who had fallen ill with a mysterious illness. Her father, Dr. Steward who is in charge of an English sanatorium, enlists a specialists, Dr. Van Hesling to figure out what the illness is. Dr. Van Hesling believes that Lucy was bitten by a vampire. The vampire is found to be a man, who goes by the name Count Dracula who had just moved into the
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Anne Rice was born on October 4, 1941 in New Orleans, Louisiana. She was named Howard after her father but changed her it to Anne when she was only a child (Biography.com) Biography.com mentions Rice attended Texas Women’s University and North Texas State College. She also received her degree at San Francisco State College. Rice worked various job as a waitress, cook and insurance claims examiner prior to achieving success in her true passion as. “Rice began her career as a writer of erotica and
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perspective. The feminist perspective focuses mostly on the fact that our society is centered on misogyny and keeping women in a place of submission. That being said, the feminist would not be exactly thrilled with the roles portrayed by women in Dracula. The two main female characters in this book are Mina and Lucy. Mina is the fiancé of Jonathan Harker, and Lucy is her best friend. As I read that book, it became clear to me that while Mina was quite willing to submit to the authority that was
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illustrated in both the film and the novel, but major alterations are made in the film to make it more exciting, 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
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Running Header: Dracula Page 1 Bram Stoker’s Dracula March 7, 2011 Randy McMeans Professor Leigh Baldwin Page 2 Bram Stoker’s Dracula “Vampires,” fascinating creatures of the night. They roam the night portraying themselves as members of society. Their appeal
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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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the lips were gouts of fresh blood, 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
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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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| | |Fin de Siècle Writing and Culture. | Discuss any two fictional texts studied in the light of fin de siècle theories of degeneration. The era of the Victorian fin de siècle ‘…from the 1880s to the end of the century…generated an enormous amount of scientific and cultural debate concerning the future civilisation and the human race itself.’[1] It was an era of technical progress, Imperial gain, and a nation at the pinnacle
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Running Head: DRACULA “I Never Drink Wine” C. S Intro to Film “I Never Drink Wine”, Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992) Director, France Ford Coppola~ A Director according to Goodykoontz in Film: From Watching to Seeing, by definition is “the person with the ultimate responsibility for the overall film.” While this may not sound all that difficult given the fact that there are many, many crew members involved in the making of a film and all have there own unique, various job descriptions to
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