She was so fair to look on, so radiantly beautiful, so exquisitely voluptuous... and man is weak'10. ... The theme of temptation is continued in Coleridge's exploration of original sin, as he often portrays Geraldine, through the extended metaphor of being a 'bright green snake'21, emphasized by recurring sibilance, 'a snake's small eye... a serpent's eye'22, and reptilian allusions. Here she appears to represent temptation, as in the origin of sin, where Adam and Eve are tempted in the Garden of Eden, a setting also present in Coleridge's poem, in ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

He is concerned about what may have kept him awake and comments: Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye,  And where care lodges, sleep will never lie;  But where unbruised youth with unstuff'd brain  Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign. ... Ironically he speaks of a dream he had that night, "If I may trust the flattering truth of sleep, My dreams presage some joyful news at hand" (Act V,I) He dreamt that Juliet found him dead but she kissed him back to life. ... She will wake and kill herself with his dagger. ...

• Word Count: 2655
• Approx Pages: 11
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In order to observe vampire folklore in full, on must sort out and observe all of the different types of vampire lore, from the origin to the modern conception. ... 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. ... Yet must thou end thy task, and mark Her cheek's last tinge, her eye's last spark, And the last glassy glance must view Which freezes o"er its lifeless blue; Then with unhallow"d hand shall tear The tresses of her golden hair, Of which in life a lock when shorn, Affe...

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• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: High School

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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