Dracula

Wafer: In Dracula the Wafer, also known as the holy cookie of the church represents a safety cushion for the group. When Van Helsing takes Quincy, Seward, and Arthur go to Lucy’s Grave they notice its empty and in order to keep her from reentering he decides to place the chunks of Wafers into the coffin in order for her to not reenter. Here Van Helsing uses the wafer for the first time in the novel, and it shows a weakness Vampires have towards materials of Church, since Lucy could not get…

characters deeds. Dracula was published in 1897 by Bram Stoker and was about a group of Victorian men and a woman who try to defeat a vampire known as Dracula. It is a simple horror story in the sense it only follows the ‘heroes’ of the novel, the reader gets no perspective of Dracula. Mina Harker, the only female to survive the novel, is seen as a diligent middle class Victorian woman. She is dedicated to her friends and fiancé/husband. All she wants to do is wants to help defeat Dracula.…

Although in Frankenstein Victor is purely the one to blame, in the story Dracula, Jonathan Harker is the character in which the reader feels immense pity for. Jonathan Harker had traveled to Transylvania to finish a real estate deal with Dracula and even though he felt strange about the whole encounter and Dracula himself, Jonathan blew it off because of his duty to his job. Then Jonathan becomes prisoner, once he escapes he gets extremely ill possibly because of the shock. But, the reason why…

symbolizes damnation—a cursed fate in which one’s essence is engulfed by an undead being. Just as God promises everlasting life to his followers, Dracula forces everlasting “life” to his victims in the form of vampirism. As a vampire, Lucy loses her innocence and lilac temperance; she becomes the embodiment of blood-thirsty blasphemy. In Lucy’s case, Dracula feeds on Lucy, and thus, metaphorically drains her of her pure innocent human blood, symbolic of a battle between Lucy’s innate depravity…

Dracula Dracula has been heard of for many years, but have you ever realized the roles that gender plays in the novel? The novel, written by Bram Stoker in the late nineteenth century is typically thought of as a horror novel. After analzyation, I have realized the book itself has many symbols and themes for female sexual symbolism within its pages. Dracula was set in the Victorian culture. During this time, women were to be put down socially and men were to be praised and known for their…

their appearance is usually wrong. In the novel, Dracula by Bram Stoker, the protagonist, Van Helsing, becomes the protector of everyone threatened by the evil, Count Dracula. In England, others see Van Helsing as an outsider, but as an outsider, he utilizes his knowledge of superstitions to stop Dracula. Van Helsing becomes the foil to Dracula, representing Dracula in physique and physicals traits but symbolizes absolute good compared to Dracula as absolute evil. Instead of limiting, being an…

A Postcolonial Interpretation of Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” Analysed passage: Page 26 “In the library I found, to my great delight..” - Page 29 end. (Penguin Classics Reissue) Post-colonialism is the discourse that reflects upon and reacts to the legacy of colonialism and imperialism within literature and culture. In the late 1800’s at the time when Dracula was written, there was a growing sense of cultural decline within Britain - many feared that people were losing sight of what it truly meant…

Bram Stoker’s fin de siecle novel, Dracula, was published in 1897, it perfectly illustrated the Victorian cultural anxieties created by the possible collapse of the British empire. Transylvania, literally meaning “through the woods”, is one of two major settings in the classic novel. Transylvania is Dracula’s homeland, where he is an infamous civilian. He is a clever creature, and was a nobleman of great linage. There is a clear difference in class between Dracula and the other inhabitants in…

that. Although Jonathan does mention Mina, saying that he hopes she doesn’t read this journal entry, is said to have closed his eyes in “ecstasy” when the beautiful girl came closer. I ask myself if there will be an underlying theme of sexuality in Dracula or perhaps, sexual…

The book Dracula was published in 1897 and takes place during the Victorian era which took place in the United Kingdom. During this era the United Kingdom was ruled by Queen Victoria. The book was Lord of the Flies was published in 1954 but the book took place during WWII. The book Perks of Being a Wallflower was published in 1999 where it talks about a boy who is trying to find out who he is. Through these time periods men were perceived differently and there role’s started to become different.…