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Retelling Pride and Prejudice: Are Jane Austen’s views on love and marriage still relevant today?

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Retelling Pride and Prejudice: Are Jane Austen’s views on love and marriage still relevant today?

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The Fall of the House of Usher - Animated film

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The Fall of the House of Usher - Animated film

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From Dracula to Wednesday : how has gothic fiction kept audiences fascinated and scared over time? 

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From Dracula to Wednesday : how has gothic fiction kept audiences fascinated and scared over time? 

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Carrie Hoovers sums up the story for you in 17 minutes

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Carrie Hoovers sums up the story for you in 17 minutes

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HOMEWORK HELP PART 1: "The Fall of the House of Usher" Summary

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Introductory activity - Spot the connection

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Introductory activity - Spot the connection

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Pride and Prejudice - Audiobook - Incipit

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Pride and Prejudice - Audiobook - Incipit

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The different types of marriages in Pride and Prejudice

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The different types of marriages in Pride and Prejudice

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Pride and Prejudice: plot overview, 19th century context, storyline

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Pride and Prejudice: plot overview, 19th century context, storyline

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How Pride and Prejudice lives on : authors and retellings

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How Pride and Prejudice lives on : authors and retellings

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From Austen to Fielding: Bridget Jones, a modern Elizabeth?

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From Austen to Fielding: Bridget Jones, a modern Elizabeth?

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Understanding the title of the novella  (Burns's poem - 1785)

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Understanding the title of the novella  (Burns's poem - 1785)

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Never mind Transylvania, 'Dracula was Irish'
The BBC's latest adaptation of Dracula became one of the highlights of the holiday season when it appeared on TV over the New Year.
The image of the bloodsucking Transylvanian aristocrat has become a cultural icon, inspiring everything from the nine Hammer horror movies to the Twilight series of young adult novels, and TV series ranging from Buffy the Vampire Slayer to Count Duckula.

Bram Stoker, whose gothic novel was published in 1897, was an Irishman and Dracula fans have long sought connections to the vampire in the author's homeland.

Danish actor Claes Bang plays Bram Stoker's Transylvanian vampire in the recent BBC adaptation

One possible connection is in St Patrick's Church of Ireland Church in Monaghan town.

Lucy Westenra - Dracula's beautiful teenage victim - is one of the central characters in the novel.

Westenra is certainly an unusual name. It's also the name of the local Ascendancy landowning family, also known as the Rossmores.

Did this dramatic tableau in a Monaghan church inspire the character of Lucy Westenra?

And in the church, there's a memorial sculpture portraying the deathbed of a young woman.

It's a dramatic scene, known as The Parting Glance, in which the woman's distraught husband has to be restrained by a friend.

The sculpture was dedicated to Mary Ann Westenra by her grieving husband, Lord Warner William Westenra.

Bram Stoker was an Inspector of Petty Sessions before he became a novelist and it is thought he would have visited Monaghan in the course of his work.

The theory goes that Stoker saw the sculpture and used the image of the young woman and the Westenra name to conjure up the character of Lucy.

"It's possibly as simple as he was on his lunch break and happened to walk into the church," said local historian, Sinead O'Reilly.

Bram Stoker, the Irish-born Dracula author, travelled the country as an inspector of petty sessions courts

The Dracula connection was great for Monaghan tourism, she added.

"I've been searching and searching but I've never been able to find a connection between Stoker and the Westenras," admitted Ms O'Reilly.

Monaghan-based actor Martin Markey recalled appearing in a local production of Dracula in the Westenra Arms Hotel in Monaghan in the 1980s.

"At one stage I was pointing at the church with a bat on my hand and little did I know," he said.

Mr Markey thinks there is potential to make more of the Dracula connection.

"I hope some day we can establish a Bram Stoker festival here in Monaghan," he said.

Vampirology - some interesting stuff about all things bloodsucking

Christopher Lee built a career around his portrayal of the Transylvanian aristo

The last of the British Hammer Horror Dracula films, 1974's The Legend of the Seven Golden Vampires, saw a gang of Chinese vampires pitted against a band of kung-fu fighting students

According to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, some people believe that babies born with teeth are predisposed to becoming vampires

Orava Castle in northern Slovakia, the location used for Castle Dracula in the recent BBC production, was also used in 1922 for the first successful vampire film, Nosferatu

Bram Stoker's great-uncle, George Blake, was executed for his part in the 1798 Rebellion against British rule. He is said to have requested that the executioner's rope be soaped to ensure a quick death

Bob Curran is a retired lecturer from Ulster University. He has a unique perspective on the Dracula story that combines the ancient and the contemporary.

"Dracula is Irish," he said , with not a trace of doubt in his voice.

He should know, having written books such as Vampires: A Field Guide to the Creatures That Stalk the Night, the Werewolf Handbook and the Truth about the Leprechaun.

Bob Curran says Dracula was based on a blood-drinking chieftain from County Derry

According to Mr Curran, Stoker had an interest in Irish folklore and the character of Dracula was based on a Celtic chieftain called Abhartach, who is buried in the townland of Slaughtaverty between Garvagh and Dungiven in County Londonderry.

The story goes that Abhartach was a tyrant, who terrorised the local peasantry. Attempts to kill him failed and he kept reappearing demanding a bowl of blood each time.

The alleged grave of Abhartach, the Irish vampire said to have been run through with a sword made of yew wood

He was one of "the night walking dead," Mr Curran explained. In the end, the tyrant was run through with a sword of yew wood and buried upside down, which seemed to put an end to his after-life appearances.

The legend was, according to Mr Curran, well-known in Irish literary circles.

"Lady Wilde, Oscar Wilde's mother, certainly knew about it and Stoker was a regular visitor to the Wilde's house in Dublin," he said.

The academic's other theory is that Dracula is a social commentary on conditions in Ireland in the late 19th century. Dracula is a wealthy landlord, whose power is resented by the local peasantry.

"All the elements of Ireland are there and you're not looking at a horror novel but at a novel of contemporary issues and about contemporary Ireland," he explained.
Dracula is available on BBC iPlayer until the end of January 2020. Catch up here.

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Never mind Transylvania, Dracula was Irish

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A dramatic Monaghan deathbed scene and a bloodsucking Derry chieftain suggest Dracula was Irish, analysts say.

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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith by Audible

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Summary:


"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains." So begins Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, an expanded edition of the beloved Jane Austen novel featuring all-new scenes of bone-crunching zombie mayhem.

As our story opens, a mysterious plague has fallen upon the quiet English village of Meryton - and the dead are returning to life! Feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet is determined to wipe out the zombie menace, but she's soon distracted by the arrival of the haughty and arrogant Mr. Darcy. What ensues is a delightful comedy of manners with plenty of civilized sparring between the two young lovers - and even more violent sparring on the blood-soaked battlefield as Elizabeth wages war against hordes of flesh-eating undead. Can she vanquish the spawn of Satan? And overcome the social prejudices of the class-conscious landed gentry?

Complete with romance, heartbreak, swordfights, cannibalism, and thousands of rotting corpses, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies transforms a masterpiece of world literature into something you'd actually want to read.

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The stories - Let's talk about love...and Marilyn

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The stories - Let's talk about love...and Marilyn

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Chapter 4 - In Crooks's room - Students WS

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Curley's wife (in Crooks's room) Oral exam - Chapter 4

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Introduction to gothic literature - Settings, themes and characters

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Introduction to gothic literature - Settings, themes and characters

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Gothic literature evokes an atmosphere of mystery, fear or terror.

The gothic genre was really popular during the 1800s with Frankenstein, Wuthering Heights and Dracula. But there were stories with Gothic elements before and there have been plenty since. So could you survive the dark world of a gothic novel?
Setting
First up, you'll need to wrap up warm. There aren't many tropical beaches in gothic fiction. Expect wind, rain and thunderstorms and things that go bump in the night. Night time settings appeal to reader's instinctive fear of the dark - and under the cover of darkness things often aren't quite as they seem.

Writers typically set their stories in abandoned or isolated locations like crumbling castles, windswept moors, places of decay and death. Places with seemingly no escape. But where there are also plenty of secrets with underground passages and hidden doors. This all adds to the sense of mystery and danger.
Themes
Typical gothic themes are the supernatural, science, revenge, religion, breaking societal norms and the battle between good and evil. These themes and impending bad fortune are often hinted at in the gothic novels through ominous warnings or symbolic omens, such as a full moon or a raven.
Characters
Gothic literature often contrasts different types of characters: victims and predators, good and evil. They are full of strange and often supernatural characters like ghosts, vampires and werewolves. Or sometimes it's humans that seem to have something different about them, they might have special senses or abilities.

These settings, themes and characters combine to create creepy worlds and nasty narratives that send a shiver down the reader's spine.

Eek! Good luck.

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Gothic literature guide for KS3 English students - BBC Bitesize

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Learn about the contexts, conventions and key examples of Gothic literature in this guide for KS3 English students aged 11-14 from BBC Bitesize.

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Introduction to gothic literature - Transcript

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Gothic literature - Features, settings, characters, motifs and techniques

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Gothic literature - Features, settings, characters, motifs and techniques

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Gothic literature - features, settings, characters, motifs, techniques

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USES OF PAST PERFECT
Events that happened before another past event. Combine with the past simple.

The train had already left before we arrived at the station.

The kids had fallen asleep by the time their parents got home.

By the time we found our seats, the movie had already started.

Useful vocabulary for events that happened before another past event: already, before, by the time
A period of time up until another point of time in the past.

By 2018, they had lived in that house for ten years.

She had always loved that toy until it broke.

The company had been in business for fifty years before it went bankrupt.

Useful vocabulary for a period of time up until another point of time: by, until, up until, before, for, since
For 3rd conditional sentences to talk about hypothetical past situations.

If they had known about the traffic, they would've left earlier.

If only the dress had been on sale... she might have bought it.

They would have won the game if the goalkeeper hadn't made that mistake.

Similarly, for expressing regret. Use with 'wish'.

I wish I had studied for the exam...

We wish we'd booked tickets earlier.

I wish I had known about the event; I would have attended.

STRUCTURE
For positive sentences, use 'had' after the pronoun, plus the verb in the past participle form. We often contract the form with an apostrophe.

For negative sentences, add 'not' after 'had'. We usually contract the form with an apostrophe.

I had not walked > I hadn't walked

You had not walked > You hadn't walked

He had not walked > He hadn't walked

She had not walked > She hadn't walked

It had not walked > It hadn't walked

We had not walked > We hadn't walked

They had not walked > They hadn't walked

To ask yes/no questions, change the order of the sentence so that 'had' is at the beginning.

To ask for more information, add the 'who, what, where, why, how, when' question words at the beginning.
To do
Practise by using the worksheet on this page, and watch other Tenses with Georgie videos.
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Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula - The shaving scene

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Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula - The shaving scene

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Dracula ( 1992 ) .....Johnathan Harker Shaving scene ( full )

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How to make your writing suspenseful - Methodology and creative writing

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Intermediate task: from monsters to madness - Write!

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Intermediate task: from monsters to madness - Write!

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Frankenstein by Mary Shelley - Chapter 5 Audiobook

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Frankenweenie Official Trailer #2 (2012) Tim Burton Movie HD

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