Horror Test Flashcards

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Adam and Eve and a vampire named

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Lilith
Cast out for disobeying Adam
Feeds on blood of newborns

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What keeps vampire myth alive

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Seductive power of vampire

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3
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Vampires have what gift

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Gift of external life

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4
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Definition of vampire

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Returns from dead
Attacks people
Drinks their blood

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Vampire comes from

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Hungarian word vampyre
Slavic
Spirit nourished himself on living

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Word for corpse that would not rest

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Nosferatu

Undead

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7
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Black Death:bubonic plague

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In Europe

Buried people alive after presumed dead

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The vampire of the past was a scapegoat for

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Unexplainable events and wrongdoings in villages

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Evidence for corpse being vampire

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Blood draining from mouth
Change in color
Longer hair/ nails

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10
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Dracula means

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Son of the devil

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Vlad tepes

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Impaired victims

Evil

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Elizabeth bathory

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Family had madness
Tortured young virgins and bathed in their blood
600 women dead

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13
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Charles Ferdinand de chirtes wrote a book about

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Vampire hunting

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14
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Beloved a vampire could be killed by

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Steak through heart or burning

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15
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Three things that repel vampires

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Silver
Crucifix
Garlic

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16
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Beam stoker

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Wrote Dracula
Wrote to convince people or religion
Not to change
And stick to traditional roles against science and technology

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Fritz Harmon

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German butcher shop owner who killed men and boys with a bite to the neck, drank their blood, and ate their flesh. Sold meat to customers

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Jeffery dahmer

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Killed men and boys, dismembered their bodies and drank their blood

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Modern day vampires represent

20
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Horror

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An overwhelming and painful feeling caused by something frightfully terrifying, shocking, or revolting

21
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Three points to horror

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Story focuses on fear
Supernatural elements
Psychological fears

22
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Horror emerges in

23
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Poe raises horror level by

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Mixing reason and madness, eerie atmosphere and everyday reality

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Gothic horror

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Gloomy settings 
Grotesque or violent events
Degeneration or decay
Usually evil wins 
(Example Dracula)
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Victorian England and Dracula religion
Christianity Church of England very powerful Rich powerful people control church and gov
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Crisis of the rocks
Darwin and science start to make discoveries that contradict what the church says about creation Creates extreme controversy
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Victorian women
``` Ridged roles Strict rules Mothers, caregivers Not sexual Extremely proper ```
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New women
Challenged traditional role | Demanded sexual and social autonomy
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Fallen women
Women who has broken the rules Suffers an ill fate Used to reinforce the values of society (Lucy and lady vampires)
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Mina in Dracula
Traditional Expectation for time period Supports husband Jonathan Caring nurturing proper
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Lucy
Uncertain of self On her way to fallen women Easier to manipulate Independent and loose morals
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Vampire ladies
``` Evil power Fallen women Challenge norm Seductive Independent Take life not nurturing ```
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Renfield
Purpose is to create fear and show super natural elements Parallels Dracula’s rise and fall Advancement of science Shows how Mina clams him with pure ness
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Why did stoker choose horror for Dracula
Scared of new traditions, fearful of not being religious Fear and unknown Easy to convey, clear objectives and clear visions Escapism of ideas
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Stokers definition of good
Strong morals Following tradition Religious faith Western good
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Poe’s History
Mother died of tuberculosis when three Pie taken in by John and Francis Allen but never accepted as son Leaves college for gambling debt Death of foster mother Married Virginia who died of tuberculosis Poe becomes a drunk
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What did Poe strongly believe
It is the title thins that push people over the edge and then their true identities are revealed Essential truths about humanity=EVIL
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Poe wrote
Black cat Hop frog Masque of the red death
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Masque of red death connection or Poe’s life
Red death is tuberculosis
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Hop frog connection to Poe’s life
King is step father, never accepted as a man Poe ridiculed and laughed at for poems life hop frog Was a drunk and alcohol affected hop frog Protected women
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History of room 1408
12 suicides and 30 natural deaths
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Stephan Kings message
Evil is all’s around us Accept it, deal with it, let it go Be there when you are most vulnerable
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How is stokers literature different than Poe and king
King and Poe both wrote about humanity being evil. Stoker wrote to convince people of religion, tradition and how science/ technology/ Change is bad
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Stephan kind main premise about evil
Evil is always present and in your most vulnerable form
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Stephan Kong’s stories
The man in black suit | 1408