The main conflict in “Blithe Spirit” is a conflict of love; the ghost of Elvira haunting the couple causes tension between them that brings up deeper problems of the couple. The climax occurs when Madam Arcati tries to get rid of Elvira, after Ruth has died, and instead brings Ruth’s ghost into the house as well. The entire play took place in the house of Charles and Ruth; the design elements were relevant
Kathryn Goers ENG 346: Virtue and Vice in Gothic Literature Dr. Timothy Decker 5 November 2012 Sexuality? Predator vs. Victim Women in several known horror narratives, stories, and films, are highly sexualized. They aren't always seen as human, and are treated as victims. In his novel, Dracula, Bram Stoker is no different from other horror writers.
Case Study 1: Patient Admission Concepts related to HLTEN512B Topic 1 Mrs. Gwen Jones is a 70 year old woman who has been admitted to your ward after arriving from her doctor’s surgery. Her GP has included a letter stating that he has assessed Mrs. Jones and requests she is admitted. She is feeling very unwell, with a high temperature, frequency of urination and burning when urinating. She appears slightly confused. She complains of back pain.
Book report 4/19/12 AOE “The Black Box” written by Julie Schumacher is a story about one girls struggle through depression. This novel is different from other stories because it is told through the perspective of her sister, Elena. Elena tells the story of her sister Dora’s depression and how it not only affected Dora’s life but the whole family’s life as well. This story takes place in Elena’s home where Dora one day announced that she wishes she was dead and overdosed on pills. Their overprotective mother immediately put Dora in the psych ward at Lorning Hospital.
For the count to be delivered to his house in the property known as carfax. Dracula hides in one of the boxes to get on the ship and the weather gets very bad through out the trip. The crew members on the ship start to disappear and it shows that Dracula is all powerful. It also shows that he has a number of special powers for instance how he has the ability to change and control the weather. When he is able to change the weather into a calm day to a very stormy one .“rough weather last 3 days” “stoker 71” or when he is one the ship and one of the crew members comes up from behind him and stabs him.
Lucy bends her head inviting Dracula to her room; Dracula makes love to her. Ultimately, this betrayal will lead to Lucy’s death because Dracula will continue to suck the life from her. Lucy’s character embodies femininity, and, therefore, she lacks the strength to counter Count Dracula. In addition, when the vampiric Lucy is approached by Holmwood in her tomb, she tries to seduce him in order to get him to protect her from the others. To the men, she has become a “monster” as well, and their desire for her is manifested in their obsession with destroying
In the 16th chapter of Dracula by Bram Stoker, the count has made his first victim in England, Lucy having been transformed into a vampire. Van Helsing, Dr. Seward, Arthur, and Quincey Morris investigate on the situation and decide to get rid of her, or rather of it...Indeed the young women has become monstruous and has started to attack children for their blood. The passage we have to analyse is the ritual the men have to perform to eliminate the creature, described through Seward's point of view. Many traditional characteristics of vampires are, like in the whole book, present in the text: blood, sharp teeth, stakes and garlic...Different recurrent themes of Stoker's work can also be found in this passage, and we will try to identify them and analyse their meaning.
evil is also developed though Christian symbols warding off evil. When Jonathan was on his way to Castle Dracula, he is given a crucifix by the elderly woman at the hotel to protect him. “She then rose and dried her eyes, and taking a crucifix from her next offered it to me.”(Jonathan Harker’s journal 13). The rosary protects Jonathan while he cuts his self shaving, Dracula lunges for his throat, but stops when he sees the crucifix around Jonathan’s neck. Later in the novel Van Helsing gives the knights communion wafers and crucifixes to keep them safe, and places wafers in Dracula’s coffin to banish him from it.
In The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath uses the shedding of blood is used as a motif for a major life changes. Most people consider blood to be a scary thing, in The Bell Jar Esther Greenwood seems to fall in love with the sight of it and Author Sylvia Plath uses to show how Esther develops. The first time blood is seen in the book is after Esther is set up with a man, Marco, who she immediately identifies as a “woman hater’’. After a
Of course, this is a strange pursuit because it requires searching for a propensity while at the same time it has always being inside me. One evening, when I returned from school I found out that my Aunt had gone through Uterine artery embolization. She was lying in bed with severe pain, prescribed with a couple of narcotics to control it. Despite being warned by the doctor of the pain she will go through if she lives the hospital after the procedure, she was forced to leave for the fear of how much it will cost her to stay overnight. I tended to the needs of my ill aunt and during this period of time, the idea of playing nurse never crossed my mind; rather, care giving was a way of life.