Jim Sheridan

narrative. For instance, within the gothic/horror genre, various authors including Sheridan Le Fanu decide to “historicize” the text by incorporating certain characters, and behaviors to reveal political, and social commentary of their societies’ time. As previously stated, within literature, the historical context can help us understand the political commentary towards that period’s societal conditions. Therefore, in Sheridan Le fanu’s story “Carmilla”, the work was a political allegory towards the relationship

literature and films as well as folklore. In 1819, John William Polidori published his short story, The Vampyre, which opened up many minds to the concept of male vampires and their gift and ability to seduce women. Shortly after, in 1872, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu introduced the literary world to Carmilla, one of the first vampire novels of its kind. The novel clearly illustrated the power of female vampire seduction. The Vampyre is a novel, which sets the tone for many vampire stories to come. The

repression, it was common for vampire stories to reflect the fear of sexuality that was rampant in society. Bram Stoker’s Dracula illustrated fears about sexual women in contrast to the woman who respected and abided by society’s sexual norms. Joseph Sheridan LeFanu’s “Carmilla” represented not only the fear of feminine sexuality, but also the fear of sexuality between women. John William Polidori’s “The

centuries in human folklore. The first Anglicized representations of the creature in literature date back to the English poetry of the early 1700s, and were then followed in the fiction genre by such works as John William Polidori’s The Vampyre, Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla, and of course, Bram Stoker’s Dracula. For the audiences of the 18th century, vampires embodied many of the following common fears shared between the people: of illness, both mental and epidemic, of an embraced sexuality, particularly

In Carmilla, Sheridan Le Fanu uses vampires to identify and challenge gender roles of women in the Victorian age. From the outset, Carmilla and Laura’s relationship appears to transcend mere homosocial characteristics; Carmilla awakens sensations in Laura which she has never known before because her sexuality has always been suppressed. This suppression is inherently motived by the dominant ideology in Victorian culture that lesbianism, and homosexuality more generally, are “unnatural” forms of sexuality

Furthermore, with death being the most common element of gothic literature, it is simple for the reader to sense the horror when it occurs in a story. Thus, the author accomplishing one element of gothic fiction. The Victorian gothic story Carmilla, is written in first person narrative as the antagonist is explaining her occurrences with the evil protagonist of the story; Carmilla. Camilla has a strange desire for death as she states: “Why, you must die–everyone must die” (Le Fanu 11). Le Fanu show

Ruben Alejandro Mrs. Mary Smith AP Literature 20 September 2017 How to read literature like a professor There’s a lot of literary techniques used in “How to read literature like a professor”. One of the techniques is symbolism. In chapter 12 it talks about someone walking on a road and they encounter two roads that diverge into the woods. There’s a road that everyone uses and then there’s one that almost no one uses and he decides to take that road for some reason. “Two roads diverged into

The quickest way of describing Carmilla is as a Victorian lesbian vampire novel. This tends to raise a couple eyebrows in the room, so let me take a deep breath and explain that Carmilla is a gothic novel written during the Victorian era that addresses issues like ambiguity, memory, transgressive sexuality, and gives insight into the tensions that existed between Catholicism and Protestantism, Ireland and England. At face value, the novel hardly makes any mention of the political and social turmoil

part of our society today. School for Scandal reflects the 18th century through its use of expansion within the play. What I mean by this is that Sir Oliver is said to be in the East (Sheridan 1.2). Sir Peter states that “Sir Oliver 's Eastern Bounty gave them [Joseph and Charles] an early independence,” (Sheridan 1.2). The Eastern Bounty more than likely refers to Sir Oliver trading in India. This time period was a time for expansion ad trade. England and France were the two dominant powers and

An Analysis of The Judge's House This compelling 19th Century thriller by Bram Stoker has many typical elements of the 19th century ghost story genre. The author has used many rudiments, which make this a very popular ghost story. "The Judges House" which is set in an isolated setting, this can clearly be seen when the author describes it as "…desolation was the only term conveying any suitable idea of its isolation." Here the author wants to portray the sense of