... that suggested an argument for social change in early nineteenth century Britain, reproving Roman Catholicism in favour of the virtues of Protestantism. The instability of theology offered Gothic Literature the confidence to query the supremacy of religion in text, for example in The Monk, where there is, according to critic David Stephens '...in effect a conflation of Roman Catholicism and blind superstition.'3 Both here and in the character of Father Jerome in Walpole's archetypical The Castle of Otranto, Gothic authors have presented religious ... looks were free'8. Coleridge's apt u...

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... : the origins of the myth Clive Leatherdale, in his book "Dracula: the romance and the legend-, sustains that the mythical figure of the Vampire is based on two popular beliefs as old as manhood: a) Faith in a Life after Death b) Faith in the magical "power- of blood. About point a), it must be specified that this Life after Death should have place in an another world like Valhalla, Ade, Paradise and so on. The death is the limit between the ... is the opposite of the protagonist of Faust: he is a scientist that became a shaman to fight the Evil, another form of the myth of the Double. V...

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