Since the realm of the Gothic concerns the world of darkness, it is fitting that the world of dreams and sleeping would play an important role. ... He goes on to tell them that real death has appeared in their midst and compares their beds to graves. As far back as Ancient Greece, poets and artists have seen a relationship between sleep and death. In Greek Mythology, Hypnos (Sleep) and Thantos (Death) were considered brothers, both being born of the same mother, Nyx (Night). The association of sleep with death ("death's counterfeit") makes dreams an easy ally of the Gothic w...

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Dracula on hearing this realized that after his own death, he would not be able to spend all of eternity in heaven with her. ... Then, over an unknown period of time, he transforms into a Vampire, the creature of darkness. The Vampire personifies everything the Church stands against, such as death, hatred, fear, loathing, sin, immorality, corruption, and darkness. ...

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He is there to conclude a real estate transaction to Count Dracula, an old century vampire with a dark evil soul. ... Mina spots a dark shadow beside her with glowing red eyes bending over Lucy. ... After their death Van Helsing, Holmwood, Seward, and Quincey Morris go to Lucy's tomb. ... Even though the women have preyed on children and have killed others to become their breed, their death conforms to the promise of Christian salvation. ...

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Cinematics of Nosferatu In Nosferatu, the first thing I noticed was that the camera doesn't move. Except for a few brief pans to show the setting or the landscape. When one scene ends, it blacks out to the next scene, or just jump cuts in a few places to a totally different theme. I think it w...

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If one was to take the words of Jesus and twist them into dark meanings that would give them Dracula. ... Also when Quincey dies in the process of destroying Dracula, a light shines upon him as if his death was not in vein. ...

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Bram Stoker was born in Dublin, Ireland on November 8th, 1847. His father was a civil servant in Dublin Castle, and his mother, Charlotte, was a women's lib advocate. They had seven children in nine years; the third of which was Bram. The first seven years of his life he was bedridden with an undiag...

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One would believe that the origin, like the mythical creature, emerged from the dark woods of the Greek and Rumanian countryside. ... In China, it was said that after death, a spirit may return to the realm of the living in the body of a red-eyed monster with green or pink hair. ... Around this time, the Orthodox Church began to believe that incorrupt bodies (i.e. those who died outside the realm of the church, -whether they were never baptized or they had been excommunicated-, those who were born with caul, teeth, or tail, those born on certain "demonic" days, and those who suffered an irregu...

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For over a thousand years, mankind has always feared the world of the unknown. Fear has always been man's most primal instinct since the dawn of time. Their irrational fear has led them to extreme paranoia and a strong feeling of hatred for anything that is unfathomable. But first, what exactly is ...

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