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    apart from caring for the home recognized. Nosferatu is based upon the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker, but has many variations in characters and events. The character of Johnathan is now Hutter, Count Dracula is Orlock, and Mina becomes Ellen. It is not just the names of the characters which change, but also their relative importance. As Hutter’s role in the fight against Orlock is reduced compared to that of Johnathan and Dracula, Ellen becomes more significant and

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    Dracula is told through a series of letters, journals, newspapers, and other writings instead of a single, connected narrative. In literature, Dracula would be not only classified as a Gothic novel but also an epistolary novel. The letters and journals in Stoker’s novel tell the reader the plot of the story; In the beginning of Dracula after the reader leaves Jonathan and enters Mina’s world, Mina and Lucy exchange letters back and forth setting up the rising action of the plot of the novel. In the

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    The novel Dracula by Bram Stoker, is a horror story that involves a group of male protagonists, Jonathan Harker, a solicitor, Dr. John Seward, an asylum doctor and Dr. Van Helsing, a scientist, who are out to kill The Count as they fear he may bring more tragedy to their homeland. Before all this chaos, it starts off with Jonathan going to Transylvania to help Dracula with some real estate business. On his journey and stay at the castle, he experiences strange and odd things. He soon finds out that

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    Dracula's Death in Bram Stroker's Novel Dracula In Bram Stroker's infamous novel, Dracula, he tries to explain the life of the undead, then continues to explain how to kill these creatures of the night. We find out that you must stab a vampire in the heart with a wooden stake, and then slash off their head. This is the only way that we are led to believe that you may be able to kill these undead. We learn this through Stoker's vampire expert Van Helsing, he seems to be the most educated

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    Suspense in Bram Stoker's Epistolary Novel Dracula Bram Stoker uses the epistolary narrative to create suspense in Dracula by drawing the reader into the personal lives (through the characters' diary entries and letters) and allowing him to experience the events of the novel on an intimate level. Each character provides a first-hand, first-person perspective, unique for that specific character's sex, level of education, profession, and state in life, as well as for that character's ability to create

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    In the novel "Dracula" by Bram Stoker There are many characters but there is only one specific character that stands out from the rest and that character is count Dracula, while the rest of the characters are good. Dracula is an evil person. Dracula kills for a living in order to survive but he is also the main point of the novel he is probably the most important character in the novel. But how can you tell Dracula is the most important character in the novel? Well, simply because Bram Stoker chose

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    The novel Dracula by Bram Stoker and the poem Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been ? by Joyce Carol Oates both possess extremely monstrous characters. We are going to attempt to compare the main villains in both works : Count Dracula and Arnold Friend in order to show that a human can be more of a monstrous character than a stereotypical goul. In order to do this we will base our comparison on the description of the physic of both protagonists as well as their limitations and strengths. To

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    Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel Dracula is far from being a simple penny dreadful in which good triumphs evil; instead it is a story of contradictions. The Count himself is one of them; he is both living and dead. Stoker creates this awkward and anxiety inducing contradictions not only in the Count but within Victorian era itself. In this time of enlightenment, superstition and science are constantly shown to be intertwined in a way that seems to bewilder the characters as much it does the audience. Stoker

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    Dracula Seen in New Eyes

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    Dracula Seen in New Eyes Dracula by Bram Stoker which is written in the style of journal entries, newspaper clippings, and other forms of personal narratives from various characters, and their viewpoints of the peculiar events surrounding them. There are many interpretations of this novel, many different viewpoints on the themes of the novel. Carol Senf, wrote an essay called Dracula: The Unseen Face in the Mirror. In this interpretation, there are many different viewpoints and ideas about Dracula

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    Dracula Journal Questions 1. How does the Renfield sub-plot function in the novel? What would be lost if it were removed? The Renfield sub-plot in the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker functions as a reflection of Stoker’s views on the human subconscious. It is easy for Dracula to take control over Renfield because of Renfield’s fragile and easily subdued nature, a reinterpretation of the human subconscious. Stoker argues through the Renfield sub-plot that humans are easily persuaded by their desires

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