The Vampire Genre (v.s)

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Dr John Seward, the superintendent
of a large mental asylum at Purfleet in Essex. It begins with Harker's journey to Count Dracula's castle in Transylvania in connection with the Count's purchase of an estate adjoining Dr Seward's asylum. After various horrifying experiences at the castle Harker makes his way to a ruined chapel, where he finds fifty great wooden boxes filled with earth recently dug from the graveyard of the Draculas, in one of which the un-dead Count is lying. These boxes are sent to Whitby where Dracula disembarks in the shape of a wolf, having killing the ships crew during the journey. He proceeds in turning Lucy into a vampire who, despite blood transfusions and the occult precautions of Dr Sewards old teacher Professor Van Helsing, dies drained of blood yet still walks the earth as a member of the evil un-dead until she is promptly staked through the heart. The rest of the book tells of the attempt to save Mina from the insidious advances of Dracula. Van ...

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a stake through the heart followed by decapitation.

As the vampire genre falls as a sub-genre to the horror genre the purpose of the novel or film is as well as entertaining the audience, to frighten them. This is often done by using the popular notion that vampires are blood thirsty predators and this is often echoed through the way they look. In the novel Dracula the character Dracula is described to have hawk like eyes and nose and claw like fingernails and ofcourse the fangs. All of these features belong to predator animals and reinforce a sense of fear in the audience.

As well as coming under the horror genre vampire fiction usually contains a sub plot and a genre within a ...

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