Gothic Elements Of Dracula Essay

There are several characteristics based on literature Gothic to which the novel Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” belongs that can be traced in the alien quadrilogy. To start with, the very setting of the atmosphere created by alien in the novel are more close or similar to those used during the late 19th century Gothic novels. In the Typical representation of the house in the novel Gothic, the modernity of the setting is coupled with what Chris Baldick defines as “a claustrophobic sense of enclosure in Space” as well with what Mario Praz calls “an anxiety with no possibility of the space”. In the novel, Dracula, the character of Jonathan discovers the ruined chapel in which the count sleeps by descending several unexplored stairways and exploring the …show more content…
In the Dracula novel, the otherness has been largely specifically attributed to the entire figure of the count. The Vampire has been so much differently interpreted as representing what the nineteenth-century white male saw as others figure out as threatening the status quo of the patriarchal society of the period. In accordance to Judith Halberstam taking her as an example, according to her, Dracula can be interpreted as a figure for the foreigner, the Jew. While according to Alexandra Warwick, his argument is that the vampire is a representation of the East against the British Empire as well as against the threat coming from the man who seems to unite and mixes the entire human and animal attributes. It is evident that according to Allies series, otherness is exemplarily embodied by the alien and hostile creature which belongs to the species previously unknown to the human beings of the future times who are known to come from an unexplored planet and whose origin is never explained in the entire narrative. The alien therefore is clear that perfectly epitomizes the figure of a foreigner, with whom it is so impossible to communicate and whose instinctual and also animal nature cannot be easily