Vampires in The Vampire Lestat represent unlimited sexual freedom, contrary to the restriction of Dracula. ... Dracula reflects very much the old' mysteries in relation to religion, sustaining the belief of goodness prevailing over evil, the damnation of all things satanic. ... Stoker had adopted the polyphonic voice technique, detaching the audience from the resident evil and evoking almost a sense of protection for his readers. ... There is no opportunity for the audience to sympathise with Dracula and the reader is not torn between good and evil, they simply side with the mortal he...

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For example, some supernatural beings can represent simple themes of temptation or vice. ... Evil." Good and Evil and are such relative terms, but, they represent the most popular theme when it comes to the supernatural. Quite frankly, some would believe that the supernatural world and "good vs. evil" go largely hand in hand with one another. Good is often portrayed by a baseline mortal while evil is depicted as the strange, otherworldly creature with sinister motives. ...

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Seen as an avenging servant of God, he represents the rival to Dracula, who is often likened to the Devil: 'His eyes flamed red with devilish passion'9, and thus seeks to end the Manichaean conflict between light and dark. ... Here the temptation of Geraldine's wild and supernatural appearance unsettles Christabel, and as Gabriele Cocco writes, it leads her 'innocence and purity' to be 'violated by sin'20, the temptation of evil being the antithetical force to pure virtue. ... Here she appears to represent temptation, as in the origin of sin, where Adam and E...

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Being a "count " that he is, Dracula demonstrates civilized and cultivated manners that overlays an evil soul.  Once again, the "evil in disguise " monster reminds the readers of human fear towards their oblivious about the future. ... As Jean's evil ability develops through the alienation that he ...

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William Freedman, in "The Literary Motif: A Definition and Evaluation," in Essentials of the Theory of Fiction, elaborates on this definition "[A motif] is generally -that is, it can be seen to carry a meaning beyond the  one immediately apparent; it represents on the verbal level something characteristic of the structure of the work, the events, the characters, the emotional effects, or the moral or cognitive content.... Gothic fiction gives shape to concepts of the place of evil in the human mind (3). ... As the Gothic world represents the shadowy 'Other' side ...

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The Life of Vlad Tepes, otherwise known as Vlad Dracula, is a life shrouded in mystery and terror. Dracula was born in 1431 in Transylvania; a western Romanian principality bordered by the Carpathian Mountains. His mother, the Princess Cneajna, schooled young Vlad. His father, Vlad II was given the title of Dracul by King Sigismond of Hungary. The name Dracul means "dragon" and was awarded to his father for his valor in defending the Catholic Church against the onslaught of the Ottoman Turks during the fall of Constantinople. ...

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