Characteristics Of Dracula And Frankenstein

The two classic movies Dracula and Frankenstein both have very different stories from one another but the similarities between the two movies is the characteristics of their main characters. The main idea between the two movies is that they are both fascinated with creatures which are Count Dracula and Frankenstein’s monster that are irregular, dangerous, and abnormal from others beings in their movies. Frankenstein’s monster as well as Count Dracula both cause hazard to the other characters in

2017 Gothic Elements of Frankenstein In the 17th and 18th centuries gothic novels were all the rave. With the French Revolution and Catholic Reform paired with new technologies from the industrial revolution, a spark went off in writers, creating a new genre of novel: gothic. This newly arrived genre brought the history to the present in the form of supernatural as people questioned the church and state. One of the most famous books from this time period is Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. Besides

In select gothic literature, anxieties of the times in which they were written tend to surface through important themes, characters and settings. Frankenstein written by Mary Shelley in 1818 and Dracula written by Bram Stoker in 1897 both share this characteristic by working through the anxieties of modernity, here meaning “the condition of being modern” , specifically between new world science and technology versus old world spirituality and faith. This manifests predominantly as the old traditional

Followed by The Dracula by Bram Stoker, also gothic horror and mythological literature. These two novels revolutionized the genres, and today are appreciated as timeless reads and adapted in a series of movies. When comparing such unique works of literature, we must explore the style of the authors

'It was a dark and stormy night…' We all love a good ghost story or horror film, and these forms of entertainment share some characteristics with the Gothic literature genre, like ghosts, ghouls, and headless spirits that may haunt the main characters throughout the story. Gothic literature has a long history dating back to the 18th century. The term “Gothic” originates or comes from the ornate architecture created by Germanic tribes called the Goths. It was then later expanded to include most

This is why he terrified everyone who saw him as he was trying to find his creator, Victor Frankenstein. In the story, Victor Frankenstein never tells us how he really created the monster which adds to its mystery and horror of the idea of his monster. In the first Frankenstein movie that came out in 1910 it describes the monster in a less horrifying way; when the movie came out they made him come to life with a cluster of electricity

century when Bram Stoker wrote Dracula, Victorian gender roles were very strict. However, societal behavior and attitudes about woman began to change. The television miniseries Penny Dreadful created by John Logan is a show about iconic literature

Bram Stoker and Mary Shelley have different views on woman and their purpose in a novel. In Mary Shelley’s literary work Frankenstein, woman are portrayed as extraordinarily docile and serve a utilitarian function. This is quite the opposite in Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Most of the women in the novel are vampires who are sexy and frightening at the same time. Although both of these novels were published in the eighteen hundreds and their taste for horror is similar; however, their view of women is drastically

Count Dracula was a “deformed evil”, his face was characterized in colors that were inhuman; thus, Stoker uses Count Dracula to instill this fear of otherness within the readers, the fear of a “deformed evil”, the fear of being abnormal yet still taking advantage of it. Another fear experienced by the society living in the Victorian Era, was physical deformity and Count Dracula is the epitome of disease and physical deformity. Therefore, Stoker’s intention behind the physical characteristics of Count

a story about a vampire that challenged the Victorian gender roles and managed to reverse them, making men faint like women, and making women powerful like men, and called it Dracula. Mary Shelley created a a physical being out of a man's suppressed homosexuality due to his Victorian male upbringing; a man named Frankenstein. Robert Stevenson described what