... 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 ... Christ, making the dietary habits of a vampire a parody of the Christian ritual. The crucifixes, the holy water and the stakes which are used against the vampires are all highly Chri...

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... 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. The main setting in the novel, Castle Dracula is ... 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...

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... the Romantics, the Gothic Romantics acknowledged the evil of man and the horror of evil. However, like Romantics, Gothic Romantics valued intuition and emotion over logic and reason and saw symbols, spiritual truths, and signs in nature. Characteristics used in gothic romance are melancholy, gloom, psychological components, elements of the supernatural, and dark spaces. The elements in Edgar Allan Poe's literature ... the idea of the horror of evil. This was an idea that was different from that of the other Romantics. More writing like Poe's arrived afterwards such as Mary Shelly's "Fra...

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