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    about every stereotypical concept that vampires were once known for. Myths about vampire’s date back as far as Ancient Greece. Stories passed down through the ages before bringing us one of the most recognizable vampires Count Dracula. The book Count Dracula by Bram Stoker in 1897 is the start of the horror monster fiction that traditional vampires are known to be. Vampires are no longer monsters that have human like qualities. Vampires have transformed themselves from creepy creatures that we

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    The book Dracula by Abraham Stoker is filled with many intriguing topics and themes such as sexuality and gender. These topics and the way they are addressed in the book were very controversial when published on May 26, 1897 and were seen as scandalous by its readers. Through this book, Bram Stoker made the idea of vampires become a relevant part of popular culture as it is today and allowed them to be interpreted as figures symbolizing sex and the transference of disease. During Stoker 's era, women

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    The story of vampires throughout the years has been one of horror and fear. Bram Stoker’s, Dracula, takes this legend and uses it to show how this tremendous source of evil reaffirms the promise of Christianity. Once Dracula comes into their lives, the characters must fight to save people, particularly women, from being turned into vampires. Being a vampire means a life of servitude to both death and damnation. Recognizing a dangerous entity like this, means risking their lives as a mean of protecting

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    Bram Stoker 's Dracula is highly acclaimed and has received many different interpretations which deal with complex symbolisms and metaphors. These interpretations often require a great deal of knowledge in psychology, political science, anthropology, and other non-literary disciplines. These interpretations may be valid, as they are related to the disciplines on which their arguments are based, but the true power of the novel is due to a very simple theme that lies beneath the other, more convoluted

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    Creature from the Black Lagoon, Dracula, all horrific images of the “Universal Monsters” created from the 1920s to the 1930s by Universal Studios. To the audience these monsters created panic and suspense that made leaving the lights on before bed a necessary precaution; they are what is seen as a true, scary, monstrous fiction. Many of these monsters did not begin their stories in cinema however; they began as novels. For Director Tod Browning’s 1931 Dracula, Bram Stoker is truly the mastermind behind

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    Bram Stoker and his Famous Count Wampyr Abraham (Bram) Stoker was and still is an influential writer. His most famous work “Dracula” exemplifies Stoker’s unique writing style as well as how dependent on other authors his writing was. Stoker’s “Dracula” also shows how the time period Stoker was raised and lived in, and the religious nature of the world at the time, influenced Stoker to write such a polarizing novel. “Dracula” is still being studied today as it is influencing today’s authors to think

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    Dracula is a widely known novel written by Bram Stoker in 1897. It is popular worldwide for its intense love story and backstory of the infamous Count Dracula. Stoker was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1847. As a child, he was very ill, so in an attempt to entertain himself, he read several books and listened to the horror stories his mother told him. In turn, Stoker became interested in ghost stories and began writing them. Gothic fiction was a genre that was extremely popular during this time period

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    How Dracula got His Fangs For centuries, people have told hair-chilling stories of monsters who cannot die, but live on the blood of others. From the Philippines to the highlands of Ireland, these vampire-like demon stories come from every part of the earth. One of the most memorable vampires came from Bram Stoker’s classic novel Dracula. But, the wicked Count Dracula of children’s nightmares came from a real life warlord. More than just a legend, this purely fictional character was based off of

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    we're doin', and death be all that we can rightly depend on” (73). Dracula, written by Bram Stoker, involves a small crusade to exterminate the threat of vampires, along with Dracula, the master. Throughout the book, Dracula is a cause for many of the problems, as his sins spread and cause other sins. The sins that are the foundation for the levels of Hell are represented through the negative actions of the characters in Dracula. Dracula represents the sin of Lust early in the novel. Jonathan Harker

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    story “Dracula”, composed by Bram Stoker, the literature of psychology is well presented. “Dracula” was composed in 1897, the time in which psychology was first being introduced. The novel “Dracula” was written into an epistolary formation known as a series of letters, newspaper clippings, and diary entries. Jonathan Harker, a young lawyer, travels to Transylvania to presume a real estate transaction with the Count Dracula. Amongst his arrival he suspects peculiar activities occurring. Bram Stoker’s

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