1. Fear Manipulations in Literature
Dracula is portrayed to live in a castle where "everywhere a bewildering mass of fruit blossom " and the "green grass under the trees spangled with the fallen petals " (Suskind 10). ... By letting the mother addresses the newborn Jean as "the thing ", the mother's disgusted tone both emphasizes and foreshadows Jean's desire and abomination later on in the novel. ... This abandonment leads the readers further into Jean's background as a insignificant being, "as a bean when once tossed aside " by his own mother, by the supposed kindest man in the Church, and last but not least the...
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