You can comment /compare / answer each point separately or write an essay touching the 5 points below. Give reasons for all your statements (350 – 400 words).
- Which of the 3 Dracula book-to-movie adaptations seemed scarier to you and why?
- In the first lecture of this course I was telling you that Victorian Gothic brought with it the collapse between opposites (self - the other; good - evil; domestic - foreign; life – death; science - spirituality, fiancée - bride; familiar - unfamiliar, etc). Choose and discuss two examples of any such duality in any of the movies we saw together.
- Compare any of the main characters (personality, motives, interpretation, transformation, etc) from any the 3 movies (Dracula 1931, Dracula 1992, Dracula Untold).
- How is love and fear of death treated in these movies?
- Which of the 3 movies did you like best? Give reasons.
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