Abstract This paper explores the research question "How is fear being manipulated by literary elements in horror and thriller genres, as illustrated in Patrick Suskind's Perfume and Bram Stoker Dracula? ... 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. ... Through the research and evaluation of the two novels it is clearly expressed how authors' literary elements as well as techn...

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Each has a different literary effect on the audience, and heavily influences their portrayal of vampirism, in way of the old' and new' styles. ... This is perhaps a device influenced by societal ideals of the nineteenth century, the notion that communities are protected; evil will be displaced and makes the character of Dracula, himself a cold being, " he is brute, and more than brute: he is devil in callous, and the heart of him is not - (304). ... The effect of such a device breaks down barriers between the human and imaginative worlds and the audience comes to identify with L...

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This symbolism, particularly when coupled with Stoker's use of realism not only acts as a thought-provoking device, but endows his story with a depth rarely found in gothic novels. ... Stoker's choice of the epistolary form, a literary genre diminishing towards the end of the nineteenth century, also conveys his aim to establish a sense of realism in his story. ...

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