WIP Dracula and TBC comaprison

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  • Wilderness VS Civilisation
    • Dracula
      • Definitive difference between Civilisation and Wilderness
        • Harker begins as ultimate symbol of civilisation
          • 'Should've arrived at 6:46, but the train was an hour late'
          • Idea of colonialism immediately established, Translyvania is 'one of wildest and least-known portions of Europe'
        • Untitled
    • Subverts readers ideas of what 'civilisation' is
      • Blurs the definition of the two by fluctuating between them, unlike Drac
        • Courtship of Mr Lyon
          • As a Beast, Lyon encases himself in civilisation in order to 'pass' in society
          • 'excellent mustard thoughtfully provided in an earthenware pot'
          • 'Sandwiches of thick-cut roast beef, still bloody'
        • The Bloody Chamber
          • 'Wilderness' symbolised in historical regression
            • Fluctuates from archaic to uncanny symbols of civilisation, put there to make her feel better- uncanny
              • Arrival on train creates her as in civilised world
                • 'great pistons'
                • 'faded photographs'
              • ring was in 'a circle of antique gold...given to an ancester by C De Medici' she is now bound in antiquity
              • castle
              • gold bath taps
              • All the crazy- expensive pointless extravagance gives impression he has little concept of money - fundamental civilisation
                • Gold bath taps
              • ''Lights! At the touch of a switch'
              • 'an impeccible blotter, a bank of telephones'
              • All done for her, his own areas stay in wilderness
                • 'his office...from cryptic references to his amature botanist's enthusiasm'
                • 'The Iron Maiden'
                • Sexual deviancy is wilderness
                  • 'pure silver in his dark mane'
              • The mother is also symbol of wilderness
                • 'eagle-featured'
                • 'shot a man-eating tiger'
                • her 'white mane' - similar description to Marquis' 'pure silver in his dark mane'
                • 'never saw such a wild thing as my mother'
            • As the plot develops the eras alluded to become farther and father away in time but all with linking factor of death
              • Catherine De Medici
                • Associated with St. Bartholemew's Day massacre
              • 'eyes those Ancient Egyptians painted on their sarcophagi'
              • Mark of Cain
                • Killed brother
          • As the plot develops the eras alluded to become farther and father away in time but all with linking factor of death
            • Catherine De Medici
              • Associated with St. Bartholemew's Day massacre
            • 'eyes those Ancient Egyptians painted on their sarcophagi'
            • Mark of Cain
              • Killed brother
          • Sexual deviancy is wilderness
            • 'pure silver in his dark mane'
      • Inner conflict in characters as they battle their natural wild selves to fit in with society
        • Battle happens often in domestic spaces as either true nature is revealed in their domestic space or one infects the others space which they then fight for
          • The Werewolf
            • Girl invades the Wolves space in the forrest so  the Wolf invades hers in Grandmas house
              • Girl could be argued as inviting Wolf in by bringing paw into house
              • Similar to Dracula needing to be invited or Drac's presence being done through parts of him in Mina and Lucy
          • the Company of Wolves
            • 'if you stray from the path for one instant, the wolves will eat you'
              • Agreement on domestic spaces
            • 'the children always carry knives with them when they go out'
              • humans are ones bringing weapons
              • C could avoid violence if they just keot ti path
                • 'if you stray from the path for one instant, the wolves will eat you'
                  • Agreement on domestic spaces
            • Untitled
        • Uncanny
          • Freud defines as 'the class of frightening things that leads us back to what is known and familiar'
          • The Werewolf- 'It was no longer a paw. It was a hand'
      • Untitled
      • In Wolf-iAlce, the feral heroine shows degree of comassion the 'civilised
        • Naturally given kindness is overturned by ideas of only having to conform witth the sterotype of if you are 'wild' or 'civilised'
      • Shows them to be compatable and the only enemy between them should be male sexuality- a threat to both
        • TCOW 'If you spy a young man naked among the punes, you must run'
          • 'carnivore incarnate, only immaculate flesh appeases him'
    • Critics
      • Punter
        • He functions as the catalyst for transgression in others
      • Arata
        • ‘The coloniser finds himself in the position of the colonised, the exploiter becomes exploited, the victimiser victimised
      • Stoker
        • The count is simultaniously a historical and a modern threat
    • Context
      • Ideas of British superiority in Empire fuelled by empire
    • Critics
      • Vandermeer
        • Fairytales clothe themsellvs in sterotypes and archetypes
      • Hilary aMntel
        • Fairytales hold up a distorting mirror that enhances our petty guilts
      • Atwood
        • Lambhood and tigerishness may be found in either genderand in the same individual at different times
    • Context

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