Readers feel uneasy and in terror after reading the novel. That type of book is for people who like gothic reading. Gothic novels focus on mysterious and supernatural and that’s what Victor wanted to create, a human out of parts of dead bodies for scientific experimentation. To show he can create a human. Victor lived in a gothic area, Europe – Switzerland and Germany with old buildings, dungeons, towers, dark laboratories.
It has only been in recent years with film releases such as those in the Twilight series, originally books by author Stephanie Meyer, that these previous images are being given a different new angle. Now it is more often the case that vampires are being seen as something more sexually attractive. Early films such as ‘Vampyres’, a film made in 1974 and produced by Brian Smedley-Aston, is often coined as the UK apotheosis of the sex-vampire movie, Pirie, (2008). The film depicts two ghosts as well as vampires, who inhabit an old house, searching for prey and lusting for sex. The film contains strong sexual content, but according to Pirie (2008) does more than parade nudity, rather the film, with its strong rain soaked vegetation, employs a vivid natureous scene, along with, the violent sexual nature of the vampires.
Filled with theatrical themes, dramatic irony and symbolism, Dracula acts as much more than a vampire novel. Bram Stoker writes of an assembly of people who have to contract a way to save themselves and others by putting their lives in danger against a resilient vampire. Although society of the time period frowned upon certain behaviors, Stoker managed to get away with writing shocking the social values of a Victorian reader. Through symbolism, Stoker explores female sexual corruption and Christian salvation by contrasting the power of good over evil. Dracula opens with Jonathan Harker, a man who is newly engaged to Mina Murray, traveling to Transylvania on a business trip while telling of his journey through a web of journal entries that last from May to June.
Emma Fisher Horror in Film and Literature Dr. Eldred November 13, 2012 Nosferatu: eine Symphonie des Grauens “It will cost you a bit of effort...a bit of sweat and perhaps…a bit of blood…” Hutter set out on his journey to Count Orlok’s castle after being told this by his employer. Count Orlok is the film adaptation of Dracula in the 1922 German film Nosferatu. Nosferatu is a silent film loosely based on the novel Dracula. The adaption was unauthorized leading to change in character names. However, the authorization did not contribute to the several other changes.
When movies made their debute, it was only a matter of time before horror stories were filmed. But since it was the slient era, these movies had to rely on visual appearance, such as shawdows and light. It requrie people to bring these monsters into pysiche form. Some of this was hard to do since the film was black and white. One popular movie was Nosferatu, a film about a vampire.
Analyze the gothic features of the creation scene in Frankenstein The Creation scene in Frankenstein is rife with gothic tropes, ranging from excessive emotion and extreme reactions to elements of the supernatural, transgression of boundaries and symbolic representation of the various parts of the human mind. The most obvious gothic feature in this scene, and perhaps the entire book has to be the idea of the supernatural or otherworldly. Though technically speaking the monster is created through science, it would be impossible to say that it is not a supernatural feature in the text; the science used to bring the ‘inanimate body’ back to life is simply referred to as ‘the instruments of life’. This is the only explanation we get for how the creature is brought to life, all we know is that something that would have been considered only just the wrong side of the impossible to a contemporary readership, happened in Frankenstein’s Laboratory. This idea of the supernatural being something just out of reach to be considered possible is common in gothic texts in relation to the views contemporary readers of the texts would have had.
Throughout the development of horror cinema – the figure of the ‘vampire’ has changed and progressed dramatically. When thinking of the ‘classic’ figure of the ‘vampire’ – one of the first that comes to the minds of most is none other than Hammers Dracula (Horror of Dracula; 1958). The stereotypical judgments or thoughts towards the ‘classic’ vampire figure – in this case, Dracula – is most notably known to be from Transylvania. He seduces and lures his victims in order to suck blood for survival and also finding pleasure in the process of his kill. Ultimately, Dracula is portrayed as evil, a threat to society and a menace.
A typical horror film has the same group of characters who are visible throughout the film. The character which is most definitely expected and completes a horror film is an antagonist also known as the villain. This is typical for a horror as someone who scares, kills or commits crime etc. is normally the main focus of the storyline without an antagonist the film would not be classed as a horror as they are an important part with creating the element of fear and vulnerability. For example in Dracula, Count Dracula is the antagonist and In the Devil Rides Out its Mocata.
As vampires are extremely adaptable characters they have been used in gothic texts for centuries. In looking at Dracula by Bram Stoker and Twilight by Stephanie Meyer the responder can see how the manipulation of ‘the vampire’ character has played a crucial role in expressing the different fears and insecurities of the era in which the texts were composed. The main way that the fears and insecurities of a modern society have been shown is twilight is through the modernization of gothic themes and elements so that they suit the context of the era that they were produced and create a modern gothic text. Dracula however stays true to the traditional gothic elements, as they are relevant to the era in which the novel was produced. Whilst both Dracula and Twilight explore similar themes they are expressed in different ways to represent different insecurities in society.
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde was written by Robert Louis Stevenson who was born in (1850 – 1894). The story of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde was written in 1886, it was partly written as a gothic horror story, other Gothic horror stories written near the same time were “Frankenstein” and “Dracula”. It’s also fits the detective genre because there is a character (Mr Utterson) who is a lawyer but his role in the novel is as a detective trying to find the link between Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. He was writing in the Victorian times and during them times the Victorians really cared about their reputation and they were scared of being alone on the streets because there was not enough police men around so they didn’t feel safe on the streets. He also sets his novels based in London; Stevenson also wrote children books such as “Kidnapped” and “Treasure Island”.