GCSE English Coursework Gothic Prose Stokers Dracula versus Shelleys

Perhaps one of the most dramatic genres of literature, the gothic genre, already fit(p) in unpredictable and unsettling times of revolution ingeniously set the stage for such wickedness stories as were never before seen by modern society. Artists like Bram stoker, who was bedridden until the age of seven, and Mary Shelley, whose mother died prominent birth flourished, and produced literary pieces that, in the midst of revolution, started their own revolution. Bram Stoker, born in 1847, was a sickly child, and was bedridden until the age of seven. Natur completelyy, due to his being bedridden for such a long period of time, Stoker developed a sense of drama and literature at a young age, and wrote stories all through his life. However, as if to make up for his childhood, Stoker became a passe-partout athlete, and after university, he went on to work in accomplished service. During his civil work, Stoker continued to write, and his first story, The Crystal Cup, was published in 1872. One of Stokers many short stories, Draculas Guest, is an example of the gothic brilliance that Stoker brought to dark times. Stoker used the elements of fiction perceptively to his advantage, and created a gothic masterpiece.Stokers booster unit, an destitute and adventurous Englishman, is spending Walpurgis Night (the mythical night of the devil) in Germany. Interestingly, all is not as it seems, as the first dialogue from the protagonist is the imploring question, Tell me Johann, what is tonight?, implying that the adventurous Englishman is more ignorant than innocent and foreshadowing his later vulnerability. In addition, the weather and development of increasingly funny landmarks become gradually more threatening throughout the story. Stoker uses prospect i... ...and so are human, which shows the reader the coldity of the protagonist. This creates horror, because human readers can no longer relate to the protagonist, and he becomes increasingly more inhuman to the r eader.both Stoker and Shelley use setting, character and plot in their stories for the development of horror and suspense. While Stokers story is more physically terrorisation in its nature, following a terrified, ignorant protagonist on his tour through a city of the damned, Shelleys story is equally as horrific as it traces the metamorphosis of a human being into an inhuman immortal who is caught in eternal life. Both authors use dramatic banter and an increasing threat to the protagonist to develop horror and suspense in their stories, and although the two stories use different techniques, both authors succeed in creating unfailingly gothic prose.