WIP Dracula and TBC comaprison
- Created by: EleanorRowley
- Created on: 01-05-20 09:26
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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'
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- Harker begins as ultimate symbol of civilisation
- Definitive difference between Civilisation and Wilderness
- 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'
- Arrival on train creates her as in civilised world
- 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
- Catherine De Medici
- Fluctuates from archaic to uncanny symbols of civilisation, put there to make her feel better- uncanny
- 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
- Catherine De Medici
- Sexual deviancy is wilderness
- 'pure silver in his dark mane'
- 'Wilderness' symbolised in historical regression
- Courtship of Mr Lyon
- 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
- Girl invades the Wolves space in the forrest so the Wolf invades hers in Grandmas house
- 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
- 'if you stray from the path for one instant, the wolves will eat you'
- Untitled
- 'if you stray from the path for one instant, the wolves will eat you'
- The Werewolf
- 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'
- 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
- 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'
- TCOW 'If you spy a young man naked among the punes, you must run'
- Blurs the definition of the two by fluctuating between them, unlike Drac
- 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
- Punter
- 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
- Vandermeer
- Context
- Dracula
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