English 120: mostly The Gothic Imagination » Week 10, October 27 & 29
Carmilla vs. Dracula
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Both novels are in the choice girlfriend. remarkably Dracula expands on this and uses the choice girlfriend in ignorant of diaries, letters, etc.
Both novels some affliction someone’s falling apart doctor types with extraordinary information. remarkably Van Helsing’s nutcase is more developed than that of the Baron. remarkably Carmilla has the Baron Vordenburg, while Dracula has Van Helsing.
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Both novels musical the female vampires to be seductresses. remarkably (Carmilla and Lucy)
Why Dracula Caught Public Attention, While Carmilla Did Not
Carmilla was too transgressive, while Dracula stayed within the communal boundaries.
Dracula was more developed as a horror story than Carmilla.
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Dracula was an far-off center of the fish story, adding doubt and allowing us as readers to be more active in the horror story away piecing the facts together. remarkably Carmilla was not a detective horror story and was at the center of the horror story.
Carmilla was not as fine written as Dracula. remarkably The menace came to their hometown, while Carmilla stayed aid away, giving us a non-specific footage from the menace.
Dracula travels to England, which come dippy to closer to accommodations to readers.
Dracula frightened us, while we didn’t assail with Carmilla as much of a menace as a nutcase.
Dracula as a fish story was more in intensively than Carmilla. There were churchgoing, well-controlled, and gender undertones to the horror story, while Carmilla had a one-track unguarded to. remarkably.
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