After a brief summary of the two novel, the research question is explored through the analysis of different literary elements, how the author employ each literary elements to achieve the development of fear and how they influence the readers' fear. ... However, there is not much curiosity about exactly how these two genres have become such important genres in literature. ... But exactly how is the readers' fear being manipulated by literary elements in the genres of horror and thrillers? ... Both Suskind and Stoker employ various literary devices and techniques in order to execute t...

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Another key property which makes Dracula a Gothic novel is the supernatural elements that it contains. These elements are fundamental to the Gothic novel, even if they are explained in more scientific ways later in the story. ... The Gothic elements of Dracula add to the success of the novel, even though in its day it was not seen as classic literature by any means, today people see it for what it is, one of the greatest, and definitely most popular Gothic texts of all time....

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"The old mysteries have given way to a new style,"" This quote alone illustrates the changing nature of gothic literature through the centuries. ... Her character exudes many elements of hidden sexuality, which at times she wishes to express, as she states herself in a letter to Mina, "Why can't they let a girl marry three men, or as many as want her - (Stoker, 81) The new styles' of sexuality and desire are expressed significantly more liberally in The Vampire Lestat. ... Elements of homosexuality also lace the novel. ... Unlike much of the early gothic literature, as in Dra...

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The instability of theology offered Gothic Literature the confidence to query the supremacy of religion in text, for example in The Monk, where there is, according to critic David Stephens '...in effect a conflation of Roman Catholicism and blind superstition.'3 Both here and in the character of Father Jerome in Walpole's archetypical The Castle of Otranto, Gothic authors have presented religious representatives as morally injudicious, their irresolute personas open to corruption and temptation. ... In religious literature, temptation is often seen as the ultimate transgression ...

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