Melodrama- Dracula
- Created by: Hermione23
- Created on: 29-10-19 22:46
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- Melodrama
- What?
- Involves extravagant emotional appeal
- Characters crafted with emotional impact in mind
- In the 19th century it produced a kind of naively sensational entertainment
- Characters were either excessivly virtuous or exceptionally evil
- There is normally an abundance of blood, thunder, thrills and violent action which made use of vampires, witched etc
- Good V.S Evil
- Human struggle between pure good (Mina) and pure evil (Dracula)
- Always a moral element: Lucy was seen as socially unacceptable in a victorian society, therefore she was punished
- Contrasts to Mina who suffered, but this was done to add depth to her character and envoke sympathy from readers
- Spectacular Events
- Harker entering Draculas castle
- Mina being seen with Dracula
- Fight between Dracula and Harker
- Sea voyages
- Minas travel with Helsing
- Plot Twists
- Lucy becoming a vampire
- Renfield dying and having connections to Dracula
- Exotic Locations
- Draculas Castle
- Asylum
- Transylvania
- Carfax
- Characters
- Heroine: Mina
- Villain's accomplice: Renfield
- Hero: Helsing or Harker
- Villain: Dracula
- Faithful servents
- Dr.Seward
- Arthur
- Quincy Morris
- What?
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