ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Polidori was Byron’s physician at the time. As part of the challenge, Byron wrote a fragment of a story, which Polidori stated was the idea for his own tale. Polidori developed the idea, and seems to have written it down for the Countess of Breuss, who lived nearby, and from whom the publisher acquired the manuscript.

Detailed explanation-2: -The vampire first made its way into English literature in John Polidori’s 1819 short story “The Vampyre”. Polidori’s vampire, Lord Ruthven, is inspired by a thinly disguised portrait of the predatory English poet, Lord Byron, in Lady Caroline Lamb’s novel Glenarvon (1816).

Detailed explanation-3: -As he lies dying, Lord Ruthven says to Aubrey, “Swear by all your soul reveres, n=by all your nature fears, swear that for a year and a day you will not impart your knowledge of my crimes or my death to any living being in any way, whatever may happen, or whatever you may see.” Aubrey takes the oath.