The shadow, particularly important emperor shadow months(as in the scene as he climbs the stairs), anticipates an imminent danger, embodies a sexual desire, and always betrays the killer in German cinema.
The stretches of land are the mental projections of the characters while the waves of the sea announce the imminent arrival of the count.
The unconscious, characterized by the Count's constant fear, materializes in nature when he is not onscreen.
The walk in opens your imagination for the summer months when a million bats fly out a dusk to eat bugs.
Themes like ambivalence (subjectivity and the unconscious, mystery and imagination) as well as he idea of a double, the ambiguous, Gothic, and the communion between the artist and nature are omnipresent in the film.
There are fifty-four cities in the island, all large and well built: the manners, customs, and laws of which
There is a master and a mistress set over every family; and over thirty families there is a magistrate.
