... 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 and feminism, along with other characteristic themes of the gothic genre. Buffy ... an allusion to the Biblical story of Adam and Eve, where Adam is created by God, yet this Adam is created by people and is evil. It is influenced by Mary Shelley's Fra...

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... that that people of the 19th century feared. He sleeps in a coffin, which is symbolic of the Death culture that Victorian society was obsessed with, which is also shown by Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. He is also a man that comes from a far away country, which shows the xenophobic nature of Victorian society. Still today some are still afraid of people that come from other ... ...

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