What are the main "outcast" themes in Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and Dracula by Bram Stoker?
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first you must look at the writer, a Mistress, living at a villa with both her lover Percy Shelley, the infamous Lord Byron( shunned by his country to this place) and the visiting Dr. palladoris, former priest and blood drinking homosexual and where Stoker gleaned some of his info for his story. All outcast with a visionary feeling of the coming century. All of the authors where known drug users, believed in sexual freedom and equality and believed that through the story's and poems they composed, their ideas and they could live forever.Thus causing embarrassment and shame to the establishment.
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http://www.layoutjerk.com has a large number of emo and gothic layouts, check there
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try here \nhttp://members.tripod.com/~gothicknights/index.html
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Count Orlok, an early German version of Count Dracula.
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There are several.  The main theme is the struggle between freedom and slavery.  \n\nThese links should help.  Good luck with your project.
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Byronic hero\nFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia\nJump to: navigation, search\nThis article or section does not cite its references or sources.\nYou can help Wikipedia by introducing appropriate citations.\nA theme that pervades much of Byron's work is that of the Byronic hero, an idealized but flawed character whose attributes may include:\n\nhaving conflicting emotions, bipolar tendencies, or moodiness \nself-critical and introspective \nstruggles with integrity \nhaving a distaste for social institutions and social norms \nbeing an exile, an outcast, or an outlaw \na lack of respect for rank and privilege \nhaving a troubled past \nbeing cynical, demanding, and/or arrogant \noften self-destructive \ntroubles with sexual identity (but can be heterosexual, homosexual, bisexual, asexual, or of repressed sexuality) \nloner, often rejected from society \nNot only is the character a frequent part of his work, Byron's own life could cast him as a Byronic hero. The literary history of the Byronic hero in English can be traced from Milton, especially Milton's interpretation of Lucifer as having justified complaint against God. One of Byron's most popular works in his lifetime, the closet play Manfred, was loosely modeled on Goethe's anti-hero, Faust. Byron's influence was manifested by many authors and artists of the Romantic movement during the 19th century and beyond. An example of such a Romantic hero is Heathcliff from Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights. A 20th-century military example is Major T.E. Lawrence as portrayed by Peter O'Toole in the film Lawrence of Arabia. Examples from science fiction television are the characters The Doctor from Doctor Who and Kerr Avon from Blake's 7. The Byronic hero is also featured in many different contemporary novels, and it is clear that Lord Byron's work continues to influence modern literature.\n\n ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byronic_hero )
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try putting something dark like in a Japanese translator and pick from there. Elisabeth Bethory from medieval times that drank and bathed in the blood of her girl victims in hopes of keeping a young fresh. Goth, vampire-like, and sort of scary when you read more information about her at night when it's storming. Especially when I did it right after watching the movie.
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http://www.eeeek.com/ask46.html\nhttp://death.monstrous.com/representations_of_death.htm#grim%20reaper
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The most famous of Transylvanian vampires is but ofcourse Dracula.\nNovels, films and work are fiction based on Dracula were more or less inspired buy the legands of Vlad III Dracula, Ruler of Wallachia. Vlad was known for his extreme cruelty and atrocities and hence his nick Vlad the Impaler, because he used to impale his subjects. Rumor has it that he used to consume his victim's blood and hence is considered a vampire.\nYou can read more about him on Wikipedia (www.wikipedia.org)
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Probably  Frankenstein birth place.
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Today's talk will be about Igor Stravinsky, a Russian-born composer.  Although Igor (no relation to Dr. Frankenstein's assistant) composed primitivist, neo-classical and serial works, he is best known for three compositions from his earlier, Russian period: The Firebird, Pétrouchka, and The Rite of Spring. These daring and innovative ballets practically reinvented the genre!!  Amazing,  but true!!   \n\nStravinsky also wrote for a wide range of ensembles in a broad spectrum of classical forms, ranging from opera and symphonies to piano miniatures and works for jazz band. Stravinsky also achieved fame as a pianist and conductor, often at the premieres of his own works.  Too cool, ain't it?\n\nOkay...stop looking at me like that...you started it.
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Hello Nadia, these links will help you.\n\nElie Wiesel.  Night\n\nI have found 7 summaries for you to look at, via the link below. \n\nhttp://www.antistudy.com/search.php?title=Night+by+Elie+Wiesel\n\nhttp://www.freebooknotes.com/book.php3?id=296\n\nThese links will give you a summary of the book, character analysis, plot and much more, so that you will be able to answer literary questions.\n\nNight is set during the Second World War. The first section of the novel begins in Sighet, a small town in Transylvania (Romania) and ends in a train which stops in Kaschau (Czechoslovakia). \n\nhttp://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmNight03.asp\n\nGood luck.\n\nKevin, Liverpool, England.
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Persuasion and Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, they are simply the best classics that have such relevance and resonance even today. Her characters are realistic identifiable and no one is perfect or without a glimmer of humanity. I also love Going Postal by Terry Pratchett I think it's his most cynical and insightful book since Small gods and wonderfully parallels all aspects of our world today.
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Badly drawn boy - the shining.\n\nHope this helps
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The gothic novel was a literary genre that belonged to Romanticism and began in the United Kingdom with The Castle of Otranto (1764) \ntype of novel that flourished in the late 18th and early 19th cent. in England. Gothic romances were mysteries, often involving the supernatural and heavily tinged with horror, and they were usually set against dark backgrounds of medieval ruins and haunted castles
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OK, first of all, it's Mary Shelley and it's Frankenstein (or, the Modern Prometheus).\n\nShe also wrote Valperga, The Last Man, Lodore, and Falkner. Well that's four.
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There have always been two different ways to approach the Dracula legend: through the literature, which is most famous due to Bram Stoker’s classic, or through history and the life and times of Vlad Tepes who lived in Wallachia (a principality that later formed part of Romania) and died fighting the Ottoman Turks in 1476. Yes Virginia, there really was a Dracula. But the legend, particularly the literary legend, long ago eclipsed the history. Few people know that Dracula was a warrior, that he led successful fights against Ottoman invasions, that he was religious, or that he served as both a hero and ferocious enemy of his own people. (Kostova makes the comparison to Josef Stalin, which is entirely appropriate.) The legend has always been more appealing and as the vampire cult has grown over the years and pervaded pretty much all aspects of popular culture (Buffy, anyone?), Dracula the man has faded into the deep deep recesses of medieval history. No one stays awake in those classes. Kostova credits her father in the book’s dedication as telling her the stories that grew into this book, and clearly she has always had a different vision of Dracula, a more serious and scholarly vision then the average theatergoer. She knows he was dangerous because he was real, because a man once committed the acts that are credited to a monster. This is something that often eludes people. We want to believe that Hitler was a beast, that Rwandans must be inherently evil, that the 9/11 hijackers had to have been demons and never ordinary, average men. What is bad must always have been monstrous and not like us; never like us. Dracula was a vampire for God’s sake, the undead. Dracula as soldier or even a child hostage? How could that be?\n\nWell, that’s where the book comes in handy. The Historian is a mystery, a thriller, a romance. It is first and foremost a story of a father and daughter who each becomes embroiled in the Dracula legend. It is also though the story of a missing man, a forgotten love, and another daughter who wants the truth. It is the story of men of God who protect a devil and Turks and Romanians and Bulgarians and a lot of monasteries. There are libraries and archives and ancient clues, even an ancient society of warriors. There are many many dragons. In short, The Historian is all things that make a book compulsively readable and everything that a truly gifted author can produce. \n\nThe first main storyline follows Helen and Paul in the early 1950s as they try to find Dracula’s grave and the secrets it might hold to the disappearance of Paul’s college adviser and mentor, a man who had also pursued the Dracula legend in the 1930s. The current storyline is that of Paul’s daughter in 1972, who ends up on her own adventure after her father abruptly departs on a business trip that she is convinced is actually a resumption of his Dracula research. Over both time periods the specter of their quarry hangs heavily, and ominously. Dracula is everywhere it seems, throughout the historical documents they read; in the places they visit, in the faces of those who try to stop them. Ultimately he proves to be crueler then they could have imagined and his effect on all of their lives is incalculable.\n\nThe Historian was a fantastic read and the only thing that I believe would have made it better was my timing. It is a great book for October I think, for that month which Ray Bradbury has characterized so well as the truly most frightening time of the year. Dracula stories should be absorbed when the wind is whipping around the house and the night is bitter dark and there is a bite to the air, a coldness that penetrates and buries deep. It is scary weather, horror weather, perfect hunt-the-vampire weather. But, well, he came to me in May and I can only imagine what a winter reading of this book would be like. I know that I loved it from start to finish, loved the characters, the setting, and the wonderful and painstaking history