The films Nosferat and Sunrise: A song of two humans, are both directed by F. W. Murnau, and made in the 1920’s. While Sunrise tells the story of two young lovers that reconcile, Nosferatu is a horror adaptation of Bram Stoker’s, Dracula. Both films consist of two young couples that face the possibility of death and other threatening dangers. The way that space is used in each of the two films, moves the raises tension in different ways. In Noseferatu, enclosed spacing portrays the feeling of no
began the vampire trend of having enhanced senses, speed, and strength, the craving mouth-watering blood to survive, and unnatural self-healing powers. However, the use of sunlight to terminate a vampire was not established until 1922 when the film Nosferatu was released. Most writers, who decided to cast their main character as a vampire, chose to follow Stoker's Dracula mold in order to create fear in the audience. There
This quote was taken from Mina's final journal entry in the novel as she explains and reflects on what happened when finally finding Dracula. After tracking him down and following him by train, carriage and boat they finally arrived at Draculas castle. As soon as Jonathan slashes Draculas throat and Quincey stabs him in the heart he turns to dust and blows away relieving Jonathan, Van Helsing and the rest of the Crew of light from Dracula’s rath. The moment before Mina watched Dracula slip away into
In this novel, Dracula’s main goal is to leave his current estate in Transylvania and become more involved in the modern world. His plan to achieve this goal is to move to London. In his words, he longs to “be in the midst of the whirl and rush of humanity, to share its life, its change, its death, and all that make it what it is” (Stoker 26) Dracula brings Johnathan Harker to his estate to learn more about London. Dracula is a difficult character to understand because the reader does not get to
It Came From Transylvania Emerging out of the dark recesses of the godforsaken castle of the cruel Count Dracula in the precipices of the Carpathian Mountains of Transylvania to the crowded and bustling streets of London, England. Abraham, Bram, Stoker transforms a myth as old as time into an immortal classic of literature: Dracula, has been the precedent for today’s horror genre. Stoker’s vivid descriptions of scenery, atmosphere and unique use of multiple perspectives escalates the story’s building
Apart from fulfilling the function of representing the prototype of the ideal Victorian Woman in Stoker’s novel, Mina also has important functions with regard to the male characters. By biting Mina and forcing her to drink his blood, Dracula mocks the lack of manhood of Jonathan, who is lying impotently next to them. Thus, Dracula asserts his power over the male characters by seducing and assimilating the female characters. Yet, as far as the hunting of Dracula is concerned, Mina is the one who significantly
Dracula is a gripping piece of literature written by Bram Stoker that tells the story of a small group of people who when they combine their efforts and wit take down an immortal being. However this book is more than just a story, it has several subliminal hints to what the condition of society was like at the time. One message if you read carefully tells you about the consequences of the civilized peoples growing inability to keep an open mind to things thought impossible. One character that displays
n Dracula, several characters are seen following roles and actions that are usually reserved for the opposite sex, these situations allow for the Victorian reader to understand that this is a special situation and that something is not right. In clearer terms, the switching and blurring of gender roles allows for a greater sense of strangeness and wrongness for the novel to continue successfully as horror fiction. Jonathan Harker is the first character we see allowing himself to be feminized, firstly
In the first chapter of Dracula, the book is narrated by Jonathan Harker who is traveling to Transylvania in search of Count Dracula. There are many different ominous overtones when reading about Transylvania, Count Dracula, and even Dracula’s castle. The setting of Transylvania is gloomy and in addition to this, the people in Transylvania and Count Dracula himself is arousing much interest and suspicion with Jonathan Harker. When Jonathan Harker first arrives in Transylvania, he stays at the Golden
This section will be about the ideological study of Dracula and Twilight when it comes to race, class, gender and sex but also religion. 4.1 Gender/Sexuality. In Dracula the characters follow curtain roles and perform actions that usually are significant for the opposite sex. Three main characters are portrayed by Stokes in ways that implies that the gender roles are reversed. Jonathan Harker is a victim, Mina Harker is one of the men in the novel and is portrayed as a modern woman and Count Dracula