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film and movie adaption, the humanization of Dracula. The subtitle of the 1992 film is “Love Never Dies,” (Coppola) which is the love between Dracula and his wife Elisabeta, who is the spitting image of Mina, and is also represented by Winona Ryder. Throughout the film Dracula tries to win over Mina in order to regain his love with Elisabeta, who commits suicide after false rumours of Draculas death are feed to her by priest. The betrayal by the priest and his wife’s death, makes Dracula curse god

society. In the Victorian era, the roles of male and females have caused a lot of tension. After reading Dracula, some would argue the roles men and women hold in society. As mentioned in Dr. Seward’s Dairy from Val Halsing., “Ah, that wonderful Madam Mina! She has man’s brain—a brain that a man should have were he much gifted—and a woman’s heart. The good God fashioned her for a purpose, believe me, when He made that so good combination” (Stoker and Hindle, 2003 250). A women’s mind is not the always

to the essence of this gothic, horror novel. These two women are Mina Harker and Lucy Westenra. The purpose for these two women was for Stoke to clearly depict the two types of women: the innocent and the contaminated. In the beginning, the women were both examples of the stereotypical flawless women of this time period. However, as the novel seems to progress, major differences are bound to arise. Although both women, Lucy and Mina, share the same innocent characteristics, it’s more ascertain that

This essay will discuss the ideas of sexuality and gender in Bram Stokers Dracula with comparative analysis of Robert Louis-Stevenson 's Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and it 's ideas of doubling. While drawing from questions raised in Christopher Crafts essay Kiss me with those red lips on the dual inverted nature of vampirism. It will answer these questions of do we have penetrators or orfices? What are the relations between blood and semen, blood and milk? While ultimately coming to a conclusion of what

Living in a globalized world has certainly altered our way of perceiving reality by breaking the distance barrier through technology and at the same time making everything, including changes, faster. An example of this is the speed in which relationships, especially between young people, start and end oftentimes mediated by communication technologies. In a matter of seconds, people located on opposite sides and hemispheres of the Earth connect with each other in a virtual space and create what is

evolved into what women are today. Van Helsing's biggest compliment for Mina is that she has a "man's brain". In his eyes Mina's combination of masculine intellect and feminine sweetness makes her the perfect Victorian woman. Van Helsing describes how Mina Harker is the perfect example of a Victorian Women and since she happens to be so smart she must have the brain of a man that makes her seemingly perfect. Van Helsing compliment Mina by stating: “She has a man's brain—a brain that a man

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

different in Dracula’s film version is how he is killed. In the book, Harker slits his throat after a climatic chase and battle, and immediately turns to dust (Stoker 325). This battle still occurs in Coppola’s version; however, he is eventually killed by Mina and the act is seen as one of compassion and kindness. Stoker does not explore this idea in his novel. Stoker does not explore this idea in the novel, as doing so would have taken away from the frightening, undead character that he was trying to create

Nicholas Bennis AP Literature and Composition Ms. Lawson 21 November 2017 Haunted “The castle is on the very edge of a terrible precipice. A stone falling from the window would fall a thousand feet without touching anything! As far as the eye can reach is a sea of green tree tops, with occasionally a deep rift where there is a chasm. Here and there are silver threads where the rivers wind in deep gorges through the forests. But I am not in heart to describe beauty, for when I had seen the view I

It is the last couple years of the nineteenth century in Victorian England, men are increasingly becoming fearful and intimidated by their “own” women. But how you may say? Bram Stoker illustrates this in a far more grotesque and gothic form in his book Dracula. In Dracula Jonathan Harker, a lawyer travels to Transylvania for a real estate transaction with Count Dracula and after a few days Harker realizes he is a prisoner in the castle and the Count will soon feed on him. It soon turns into a horror