An Analysis Of Bram Stoker's Dracula

Unknowing to the public during its publication and Bram Stoker himself, his novel, Dracula, published in 1897, would be destined for greatness and provide an influence to horror and fright that would resonate for years to come. The novel crept out at the end of the Victorian era at a time where science, literature, and even medicine were advancing the western world to a new height of cultural triumphs. And while the Victorian era had slowly developed its own desired personality of moral and contemporary ethics, it also flourished with a new wave of passionate works consisting of art, both physically and narratively, that described a taboo-ridden society involving murderous, and often times sexually provocative, accounts of storytelling that tainted and changed their present-day society. …show more content…
As stated in Catherine Wynne’s book entitled, Bram Stoker, Dracula and the Victorian Gothic Stage, it was said that “Simple characters in adverse circumstances; the trials of temptation; the triumph of good over evil; emotional tumult, sacrifice, reconciliation and finally redemption” were distinguishing factors of Stoker’s Dracula that shaped the novel and made the story, and its characters, attractive to its readers (Wynne 2). There are themes throughout the novel that, through analyzation and scholarly review, have pointed to a few select factors that are believed to have contributed to social variances in the late