... might often save a man's life. Those who failed to pass the ordeal, however, faced certain death. These deeds of unrelenting sadism are primarily the key elements in author Bram Stoker's literary transformation of Dracula from cruel tyrant to undead vampire. But these fictitious tales- although in truth ten times as famous as the life of the real Dracula-are apparently of ... of dressed crab at supper one night," a nightmare in which Stoker envisaged "a ghoul rising from the grave to go about it's ghastly business." Nightmares, after all, have always been favorite literary devices, used...

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... and his need to establish his own significance. 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. Stoker had adopted the polyphonic voice technique, detaching the audience from ... representing those areas of the world and of conscious which are, for one reason or another, not available to the normal processes of representation- (Punter, 18). The themes and plot devices of Gothic narra...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate