... provocative lexical field accentuates their sensuality, alongside powerful erotic adjectives such as 'voluptuous' and 'burning'. Stoker also employs juxtaposing colour imagery, initially with 'white teeth'; a colour often associated with the motif of innocence and purity, against 'ruby... burning... red' which are common symbols of lust, warning and foreshadowed death. This runs parallel with Sarah Peter's critique of Dracula, who states ... are enticed by nightmare life in death, 'her lips were red, her looks were free'8. Coleridge's apt use of Gothic symbolism through the us...

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... cornerstone in the modern vampire legend. Dracula shows its Gothic settings by 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 ... elements are fundamental to the Gothic novel, even if they are explained in more scientific ways later in the story. People fear the unknown, and the idea of an all-consuming creature that not many people in the 19th century ...

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