dracula

Stoker v.s Coppola Where there is no imagination there is no horror. – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Imagination is the force that keeps human desires alive. It is a state that allows someone to give up repression and indulge into temptation. Where the conscious mind is a state of composed and rational behaviour, imagination becomes the unconscious setting into a world of countless fantasies where one does not need to worry about the consequences. However, …

…from the horror genre and creates a story of tragedy. As Richard Dyer put it: “The narrative devices used ostensibly keep the vampire at a distance.” Works Cited Stoker, Bram. “Dracula.” New York: Penguin Books, 1993. Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Dir. Francis Ford Coppola. Perf. Anthony Hopkins, Gary Oldman and Winona Ryder, 1992. Videocassette. Warner, 1992. “Quotes to inspire you.”: http://www.cybernation.com/victory/quotations/subjects.html “Dracula, fact and fiction”: http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~emiller/