... how primitive, is allegorical by it's very nature: that is symbolic."" (S. King, Danse Macabre) This allegorical nature is multiplied by the versatile character of the vampire: the general spreading of the social and/or religious taboos on which is based his figure is only one factor of his " ... produced The Vampire. If Byron in his novel had thought of himself as a model for the aristocratic Darvell, Polidori almost certainly drew on Byron's character and his own relationship to the poet for the "development-. Lord Byron is the model for Lord Ruthven, named after Ruthven Glenarvon, hau...

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... heaving him down a well. Characterisation of Hester and Katherine further creates the suspense and thriller evident in the novel. Hester Harper is the typical character of a gothic novel as she is a lonely spinster marginalised by society because of her crippled leg. It was her loneliness, lack of love ... , appear throughout the broad scope of contemporary gothic fiction. Katherine is an abandoned child with no known roots and thus is the famous gothic character of the foundling. She is from the orphanage, an unwanted, unloved child who has already been rejected by people in the country ...

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