Vampires have changed over the years and the depictions of vampires through the years give us an idea about the anxieties of that time period, the way the people viewed the pressing issues of that time period. I am going to discuss the similarities and the differences between Bram stoker’s Dracula and the film Nosferatu.
Dracula was portrayed as a tall old man with a white moustache who appeared to be a human and he had a charm about him normally associated with aristocrats whereas in the film Nosferatu, Count Orlok’s appearance is nightmarish and closer to that of a monster than of a human. He is shown to have misshapen eyebrows, huge pointed ears, long claws which are sharp for nails, walks around in an abnormal way and does not have any of the charm of Dracula. While Count Dracula has shape shifting abilities where he can transform into a wolf, dog and a bat, Count Orlok does not transform or change into anything.
Both the movie and the book have a gender stereotype typical to the time period in which they were made and written.
In Dracula, the three female vampires whom Jonathan Harker meets in the rooms are shown as evil as they tempt him with their beauty. They seduce Jonathan and awaken a burning desire within him that they would kiss him. In the Victorian era, women who were overly sexualized …show more content…
In Nosferatu, Ellen Hutter finds her husbands book about vampires and she learns that the only way to vanquish Nosferatu is to make him forget the crowing of the cock by distracting him and that the way to distract him was to have an innocent maiden sacrifice her blood. So Ellen sacrifices herself by inviting Orlok to drink her blood and he does not realize that it is past dawn and he disappears in a wisp of smoke as soon as the first ray of sunlight touches him. This differs from Dracula where the men form a group and hunt down Dracula and kill him by beheading him and putting a stake through his
Dracula was portrayed as a tall old man with a white moustache who appeared to be a human and he had a charm about him normally associated with aristocrats whereas in the film Nosferatu, Count Orlok’s appearance is nightmarish and closer to that of a monster than of a human. He is shown to have misshapen eyebrows, huge pointed ears, long claws which are sharp for nails, walks around in an abnormal way and does not have any of the charm of Dracula. While Count Dracula has shape shifting abilities where he can transform into a wolf, dog and a bat, Count Orlok does not transform or change into anything.
Both the movie and the book have a gender stereotype typical to the time period in which they were made and written.
In Dracula, the three female vampires whom Jonathan Harker meets in the rooms are shown as evil as they tempt him with their beauty. They seduce Jonathan and awaken a burning desire within him that they would kiss him. In the Victorian era, women who were overly sexualized …show more content…
In Nosferatu, Ellen Hutter finds her husbands book about vampires and she learns that the only way to vanquish Nosferatu is to make him forget the crowing of the cock by distracting him and that the way to distract him was to have an innocent maiden sacrifice her blood. So Ellen sacrifices herself by inviting Orlok to drink her blood and he does not realize that it is past dawn and he disappears in a wisp of smoke as soon as the first ray of sunlight touches him. This differs from Dracula where the men form a group and hunt down Dracula and kill him by beheading him and putting a stake through his