Since the ancient times, monsters have populated the human mind. That has changed all the way through the centuries. This type of change was defined at the end of the 19th century when beasts and monsters were given a psychological depth to fulfill their purpose of bearing human fears. In...
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Monstrosity as a Symbolic Theme Both Dracula and Frankenstein have advanced the use of monstrosity as a symbolic theme. In Frankenstein, the monster symbolizes man's thirst towards knowledge as well as the value given to it. On the one hand is the beast itself whose character is determined by its experiences...
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Dracula is a story written by Bram Stoker about a woman and a small number of men commanded by Professor Abraham Van Helsing who oppose Count Dracula. Count Dracula arrives from Transylvania to London to transform humans into "foul monsters of the night like him, without heart or conscience, preying...
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Bram Stoker and "Dracula" Bram Stoker, an Irish novelist, wrote the gothic horror novel "Dracula" in 1897. This book was the first leading piece of vampire fiction, and it set the standard for all vampire-centric novels. The novel is written in epistolary style, which means that it is told from the...
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