... of these elements are perfectly illustrated through the two famous works: Perfume: The Story of a Murder by Patrick Suskind and Bram Stoker's Dracula. Both Suskind and Stoker employ various literary devices and techniques in order to execute the elements of these two genres. The element of the characteristics of magical realism along with the supernatural ability of the two protagonists, Jean ... the existing curiosity about the development of fear in these genres. These curiosities lead to what I want to unfold through this essay is, "How exactly is fear being manipulated by literary el...

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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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