... virgins to able to create a perfume for him. On the other hand, Bram Stoker's Dracula tells a story about one of the most terrifying monster in myths, the vampire Dracula. Upon the first glance, Perfume and Dracula, the two protagonists, Jean Grenouille and Dracula are both created as devil- ... 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. Consequently, the fear that seems to fade away in the readers' ...

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... flesh, was a way of absorbing his strength and prowess. Therefore is hardly surprising that nearly all cultures, from Japanese to Greek, have legends and folk-tales with blood-sucking, undead monster, often capable of change themselves in to an animal or become invisible. The European versions of this myth are centred on the Balkan area; there are three historical periods that ... almost constantly during the first four chapters and then disappears for most of the book's three hundred or so remaining pages. With this trick, Stoker manages to create an immortal monster by "wiggling his f...

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... -that's the iron's strength- so the eye of the Cyclops sizzled round that stake! He loosed a hideous roar, the rock walls echoed round and we scuttled back in terror. The monster wrenched the spike from his eye and out it came with a red geyser of blood- he flung it aside with frantic hands, and mad with pain he bellowed out for ... as they come, he wishes to spread his undead curse from mortal to mortal regardless of the consequences. Beneath his composed, proper, and gentlemanly exterior is a coldhearted, sinister and savage monster. Fortunately the two protagonists, Quincy Harker and ...

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... the dead date back thousands of years. In China, it was said that after death, a spirit may return to the realm of the living in the body of a red-eyed monster with green or pink hair. Other blood-drinking demons of old include foxes in Japan and a severed head with entrails hanging down in Malaysia. The vampire of the Maya people ... ...

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