Frankenstein, Dracula And Spiritualism

In this essay, the author

• Analyzes how mary shelley's frankenstein tells the story of a man’s desire to control life itself by introducing the romantic temperament of victor and the gothic themes of the creation
• Analyzes the relation between the greek titan and victor frankenstein. prometheus stole fire from the gods of mount olympus to give it to people.
• Analyzes how victor goes against the basic laws of nature that life cannot be created from lifelessness.

• Analyzes how mary shelley's frankenstein tells the story of a man’s desire to control life itself by introducing the romantic temperament of victor and the gothic themes of the creation
• Analyzes the relation between the greek titan and victor frankenstein. prometheus stole fire from the gods of mount olympus to give it to people.
• Analyzes how victor goes against the basic laws of nature that life cannot be created from lifelessness.
• Analyzes how victor, like prometheus, is punished for trying to acquire the power of the gods. he dies before he can kill his monstrous creation.
• Analyzes how shelley agrees with enlightenment's philosophy of immutable laws of nature that should not be broken. victor approaches this problem using a romantic view of the laws and properties of natural science.
• Analyzes how death and morbidity surround victor during and after his creations birth, showing the gothic picture that shelley paints all too well.
• Analyzes how shelley's portrait of victor is of a man that seeks power only to have it lead to his doom.
• Compares the image of nosferatu with dracula, the aristocrat in the castle, lord of all vampires and his image in set in us.
• Explains that vampire legends and myths are thousands of years old and find homes in most cultures around the world. however, they have little in common with modern tales of the vampire, which are based on european myth.
• Compares the european legends of vampires as bloated corpses, reanimated dead people, and aristocrats with the literary version. both have in common drinking blood and preying on people at night.
• Analyzes how bram stoker's vampire, dracula, stayed true to the literary tales of vampires drinking human blood, having fangs, and being well-dressed gentlemen.
• Analyzes how stoker's novel takes the tale of the traditional vampire from gore and horror to one of gothic eroticism. living with dracula in his castle are three women, also vampires.
• Illustrates how dracula is an erotic creature that lets loose a woman's passions making her slave to them. this is the ultimate fear of the victorian male.
• Explains that spiritualism originated in the "burned-over district" of upstate new york, where religions such as the seventh-day adventists and the church of jesus christ of latter-day saints originated.
• Explains that as spiritualism developed the dependence on mediums increased, and since women were in demand for these positions it was a draw for women to the religion.
• Explains how the ouija board turned spiritualism into a take-home board game. one or more persons use the board to assist spirits in answering questions poised to them.
• Opines that spirits are part of a greater truth, that there is life after we leave this mortal shell. they believe that contact with spirits is possible as they have seen their father's spirit.