Horror Test Flashcards
Adam and Eve and a vampire named
Lilith
Cast out for disobeying Adam
Feeds on blood of newborns
What keeps vampire myth alive
Seductive power of vampire
Vampires have what gift
Gift of external life
Definition of vampire
Returns from dead
Attacks people
Drinks their blood
Vampire comes from
Hungarian word vampyre
Slavic
Spirit nourished himself on living
Word for corpse that would not rest
Nosferatu
Undead
Black Death:bubonic plague
In Europe
Buried people alive after presumed dead
The vampire of the past was a scapegoat for
Unexplainable events and wrongdoings in villages
Evidence for corpse being vampire
Blood draining from mouth
Change in color
Longer hair/ nails
Dracula means
Son of the devil
Vlad tepes
Impaired victims
Evil
Elizabeth bathory
Family had madness
Tortured young virgins and bathed in their blood
600 women dead
Charles Ferdinand de chirtes wrote a book about
Vampire hunting
Beloved a vampire could be killed by
Steak through heart or burning
Three things that repel vampires
Silver
Crucifix
Garlic
Beam stoker
Wrote Dracula
Wrote to convince people or religion
Not to change
And stick to traditional roles against science and technology
Fritz Harmon
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
Jeffery dahmer
Killed men and boys, dismembered their bodies and drank their blood
Modern day vampires represent
Outsiders
Horror
An overwhelming and painful feeling caused by something frightfully terrifying, shocking, or revolting
Three points to horror
Story focuses on fear
Supernatural elements
Psychological fears
Horror emerges in
1700s
Poe raises horror level by
Mixing reason and madness, eerie atmosphere and everyday reality
Gothic horror
Gloomy settings Grotesque or violent events Degeneration or decay Usually evil wins (Example Dracula)
Victorian England and Dracula religion
Christianity
Church of England very powerful
Rich powerful people control church and gov
Crisis of the rocks
Darwin and science start to make discoveries that contradict what the church says about creation
Creates extreme controversy
Victorian women
Ridged roles Strict rules Mothers, caregivers Not sexual Extremely proper
New women
Challenged traditional role
Demanded sexual and social autonomy
Fallen women
Women who has broken the rules
Suffers an ill fate
Used to reinforce the values of society
(Lucy and lady vampires)
Mina in Dracula
Traditional
Expectation for time period
Supports husband Jonathan
Caring nurturing proper
Lucy
Uncertain of self
On her way to fallen women
Easier to manipulate
Independent and loose morals
Vampire ladies
Evil power Fallen women Challenge norm Seductive Independent Take life not nurturing
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
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
Stokers definition of good
Strong morals
Following tradition
Religious faith
Western good
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
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
Poe wrote
Black cat
Hop frog
Masque of the red death
Masque of red death connection or Poe’s life
Red death is tuberculosis
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
History of room 1408
12 suicides and 30 natural deaths
Stephan Kings message
Evil is all’s around us
Accept it, deal with it, let it go
Be there when you are most vulnerable
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
Stephan kind main premise about evil
Evil is always present and in your most vulnerable form
Stephan Kong’s stories
The man in black suit
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