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. The four different literary elements discussed are: Character Development, Novels' structure, Magical Realism and Narrative Diction is explored through an analysis of the choice of diction use by the authors as well as the back-stories of each protagonist in both novels, its effectiveness in influencing the readers' fear. ... But ex...

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Though Count Dracula is a fictional character, Stoker based his most famous character an infamous 15 century family. ... The Prince also had a reputation for murdering beggars, forcing women to eat their children and nailing the turbans of disrespectful ambassadors to their heads (Voller, The Literary Gothic). ... Allusions from the previous literary works, The Picture of Dorrian Grey and Beowulf are found through out the novel. ... Jonathon Harker, one of the main characters of the novel, Travels to Castle Dracula in order to finalize a real-estate transaction. ... The character...

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Although these oddities are typically found in human imagination, the use of their myth and lore has been spun into many great literary works over the centuries. ... In many epic stories and poems, authors have been successful in conveying basic human concepts through intricately crafted supernatural characters. ... When boiled down to its most common form, the supernatural primarily exists in the literary device that is known as "Good vs. ... These creatures tend to be female characters in literature. ...

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The Origin of Vampire Stories There is no doubt that stories of occult as a literary theme have enjoyed large success and popularity and that they are still generally popular. ... The vampire began to appear in English literature after 1800 and it achieved its first real literary importance with the publication of Sheridan Le Fanu's novelette, Carmilla, in 1872. ... Adèle Ratignolle, a character in Kate Chopin's novel The Awakening, is another literary example of the angel in the house. ...

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This is hardly surprising considering Gothic fiction's entrance onto the literary stage in mid eighteenth century England, which was dominated by the Reformation and poised to embrace the Romantic movement. ... William Freedman, in "The Literary Motif: A Definition and Evaluation," in Essentials of the Theory of Fiction, elaborates on this definition "[A motif] is generally -that is, it can be seen to carry a meaning beyond the  one immediately apparent; it represents on the verbal level something characteristic of the structure of the work, the events, the characters, ...

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There is a ostensibly peculiar change in Catherine's character from literal and mundane to over imaginative in the respective sections; "a fundamental incongruity devolves around the uneasy coexistence of the novel's two sections: self-contained Gothic burlesque is grafted unceremoniously upon sentimental comedy of manners" . ... Radcliffe and her peers id not unexpected, nor creditable of censure: the lack in her everyday life of excitement persuades Catherine to read fanciful stories, and to wish her life as eventful as the lives of her literary heroines. ... Austen produces discus...

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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. The book is composed of extracts from characters" diaries, letters and telegrams, all having been carefully dated. ... It is for this reason that Professor Van Helsing, the only character able to give a correct interpretation of events, is rarely given the opportunity to speak directly. His words are reported through the diaries of other characters, so that we are never given his intimate conviction about what is...

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The discord between religious ideals and sin are paralleled through these texts, and attest to Christianity's influence in the literary Gothic. ... It is therefore unsurprising that the Coleridge poems, Dracula and The Bloody Chamber all display this theme, a breach of the character's moral and pious integrity in their desperation to satisfy their curiosity. In Stoker's novel, temptation is issued from the prurient and lascivious female characters. ... The temptation of protagonists is similarly presented in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, where the characters are enticed by ni...

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An example of this in the text Dracula is expressed through the character of Lucy. ... Stoker and Rice have, in their novels, taken on specific points of view to portray their characters and events. Each has a different literary effect on the audience, and heavily influences their portrayal of vampirism, in way of the old' and new' styles. ... His portrayal of Dracula as a character is greatly that of the elusive, stealthy and seductive being distanced from direct contact to the audience. This is perhaps a device influenced by societal ideals of the nineteenth century, the noti...

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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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The Life of Vlad Tepes, otherwise known as Vlad Dracula, is a life shrouded in mystery and terror. Dracula was born in 1431 in Transylvania; a western Romanian principality bordered by the Carpathian Mountains. His mother, the Princess Cneajna, schooled young Vlad. His father, Vlad II was given the title of Dracul by King Sigismond of Hungary. The name Dracul means "dragon" and was awarded to his father for his valor in defending the Catholic Church against the onslaught of the Ottoman Turks during the fall of Constantinople. ...

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