In Bram Stoker's Dracula, he plays with many different ideas and themes. One of these themes is the idea of Good Vs. Evil. Throughout the entire novel there are several instances where there is either a physical battle of Good Vs. Evil or a more spiritual and mental battle. Religious aspects are also influences in the battle of Good and Evil.
Dracula Vs. the "good guys" is arguably the main theme of Good Vs. Evil. Dracula symbolizes the personification of the evil, or The Devil, while the opposing group represents the good or in this case God. Dracula tries to corrupt the good and lead to the fall of the "righteous" throughout the novel by making the innocent turn into monsters or minions of the undead or darkness. A great example of the corruption …show more content…
Lucy is an example of how sometimes, the Good can't always bring someone back. Lucy Westenra is young woman who was courting Dr. Seward, as well as a few other men, and gets lured into the darkness that is Dracula. Lucy is well loved and cared for by everyone. She is not only regarded often as "vulnerable" and "innocent", but also as "sexy" and "voluptuous". Her friend, Mina Harker, is also a target of Dracula yet she comes back from the dark. Where lucy is "sexy" and "voluptuous", Mina is "caring" and "motherly". "If Mina is everyone's mother, Lucy is everyone's wife" (http://www.shmoop.com/dracula/lucy-westenra.html). Lucy becomes targeted by Dracula early on in the story. The "group of good guys" try to heal Lucy as her blood seems to keep mysteriously seeming to disappear. Lucy is discovered to have been "sleepwalking" off to mysterious places and seems to be growing weaker. Eventually dying and being buried in a tomb, the group think she is dead. Lucy later on comes back, transformed by evil into a different being, a Vampire. Her innocence and love was transformed, "The sweetness was turned to adamantine, heartless cruelty, and the purity of voluptuous wantonness"(203), and "… Lucys eyes unclean and full of hell-fire, instead of pure, gentle orbs we knew. By then it was too late to save her, and the group had to stake her so she could know true peace, thus marking a loss for the
Dracula Vs. the "good guys" is arguably the main theme of Good Vs. Evil. Dracula symbolizes the personification of the evil, or The Devil, while the opposing group represents the good or in this case God. Dracula tries to corrupt the good and lead to the fall of the "righteous" throughout the novel by making the innocent turn into monsters or minions of the undead or darkness. A great example of the corruption …show more content…
Lucy is an example of how sometimes, the Good can't always bring someone back. Lucy Westenra is young woman who was courting Dr. Seward, as well as a few other men, and gets lured into the darkness that is Dracula. Lucy is well loved and cared for by everyone. She is not only regarded often as "vulnerable" and "innocent", but also as "sexy" and "voluptuous". Her friend, Mina Harker, is also a target of Dracula yet she comes back from the dark. Where lucy is "sexy" and "voluptuous", Mina is "caring" and "motherly". "If Mina is everyone's mother, Lucy is everyone's wife" (http://www.shmoop.com/dracula/lucy-westenra.html). Lucy becomes targeted by Dracula early on in the story. The "group of good guys" try to heal Lucy as her blood seems to keep mysteriously seeming to disappear. Lucy is discovered to have been "sleepwalking" off to mysterious places and seems to be growing weaker. Eventually dying and being buried in a tomb, the group think she is dead. Lucy later on comes back, transformed by evil into a different being, a Vampire. Her innocence and love was transformed, "The sweetness was turned to adamantine, heartless cruelty, and the purity of voluptuous wantonness"(203), and "… Lucys eyes unclean and full of hell-fire, instead of pure, gentle orbs we knew. By then it was too late to save her, and the group had to stake her so she could know true peace, thus marking a loss for the