... protagonist. With regard to this exploration, it is both important and interesting to examine the depth of Bram Stoker and Patrick Suskind's use of literary elements to produce such magnificent works of the two genres that have stood proudly in the world of literature. The exploration into the techniques used in developing the readers' fear in the two novels serves as ... exaggeration, visual, olfactory imagery, to develop a sense of fear along with the structure, narratives and the supernatural/magical realism elements of their works. The two works perfectly represent the elements that...

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... 1820) by Charles Maturin, a narrative that suggested an argument for social change in early nineteenth century Britain, reproving Roman Catholicism in favour of the virtues of Protestantism. The instability of theology offered Gothic Literature the confidence to query the supremacy of religion in text, for example in The Monk, where there is, according to critic David Stephens '...in effect a conflation ... and attest to Christianity's influence in the literary Gothic. As Robert Kidd argues, 'Temptation and transgression are the central motifs of the Gothic'4. In religious literature, tem...

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... using techniques such as symbolism, personification and imagery to create a dreadful atmosphere. The ruined abbeys and the decrepit castles are symbols for the collapse of religion and aristocracy, being destroyed by scientific advances, a common theme in the time the book was written. The main setting in the novel ... adds to the already dreadful atmosphere created by the novel. Another key property which makes Dracula a Gothic novel is the supernatural elements that it contains. These elements are fundamental to the Gothic novel, even if they are explained in more scientific ways later...

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... in the Ile de la Cité. I wanted his blood flowing into me, wanted its taste and its smell and its heat."" (Rice, 149). Elements of homosexuality also lace the novel. Lestat's relationship with Nicholas is clearly that of a sexual one. Lestat gazes on his young friend and fantasised about drinking his blood, he describes the desire in sexual terms, he lusts after ... and thus is sheltered from unconscious fears or desires directly related to Dracula because they are projected in another person. Unlike much of the early gothic literature, as in Dracula, The Vampire Lestat is related by the...

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The Well - Gothic Horror The Well written by the talented Western Australian writer, Elizabeth Jolley is a suspenseful and chilling novel comprising elements of the Gothic genre. It centralizes on Herster Haper the eccentric, crippled and surrogate mother to Katherine, an unwanted child who together commit a crime. Adding to this psychological thriller ... enabling readers to develop an issue of lesbianism. Hester's response to Katherine's dancing is full of sexuality and sensuality previously kept in abeyance. "Whenever she watch Kathy dancing, Hester moved in a wonderful freedom within herse...

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... Slayer appropriates the gothic genre as it maintains the characteristics of the genre whilst also makes constant referrals and allusions to various elements of the genre. It particularly uses elements of Bran Stoker's Dracula, though other texts in the show can be identified, such as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Buffy deals with the common thematic preoccupations of the gothic genre and particularly explores themes such as Christianity ... , both oblique and explicit. This is significant in recognising the gothic genre in the show as Bran Stoker's novel is one of the more significant pie...

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