During the 19th century, the world (specifically Europe) was experiencing a massive growth rate within its working class due to industrialization. A new age of freedom had dawned at last, but with it wrought struggle by the European dictators to draw in the reins of the people, while also balancing their considerable advance in wealth. In England, Karl Marx and his followers were fascinated by the question of struggle within the classes—as the gap existed all across the world. This fascination soon morphed into Marx’s coined theory of Marxism: “Marxism is a cultural theory that embodies a set of social, economic, and political ideas that its followers believe will enable them to interpret and change their world” (Ashesi University 1). Washington
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Once Harker escaped and arrived safely home with his new wife, the count seizes the opportunity to use both his time and means to toy with these mere mortals, to the point of insanity. “Bah! What good are peasants without a leader? Where ends the war without a brain and heart to conduct it?” (Stoker 30). The boyar Count Dracula signifies the cold, adverse characteristics of an immoral conqueror, only out for his own interests as his violent ancestors in their Turkish wars. As Harker and his comrades are, to all onlookers of fashion and status of living, between the middle class and lower middle class, Harker cannot help thinking how he has aided this unconquerable monster to migrate to his homeland, as well as the dangerous position his countrymen find themselves. “This was the being I was helping to transfer to London, where, perhaps, for centuries to come he might, amongst its teeming millions, satiate his lust for blood, and create a new and ever-widening circle of semi-demons to batten on the helpless. The very thought drove me mad” (Stoker 53). However, Harker and his companions symbolize all that is good, and right, and moral within a lower-class, persons whose values trump their own desires. “I am, I know, either being …show more content…
In multiple scenes in the book, the Count obviously chooses his victims to spite others from a lower class, in which they, the lower class, really have no power to avoid such dreadful encounters without suffering fatal consequences. The Count’s victims were obviously chosen strategically, Lucy being the first target and Mina the second of the count’s immoral design: “My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side. Your girls that you all love are mine already; and through them, you and others shall yet be mine - my creatures, to do my bidding and to be my jackals when I want to feed” (Stoker 300); and the patient at the institution “Renfield had somehow met with some accident. He had heard him yell; and when he went to him found him lying on his face on the floor, all covered with blood” (Stoker 268) –all innocent, but caught in the trance of ‘trained’ followers. There’s an obvious discrepancy between the corrupted count and ethically sound peasants—as Marx would say, the conflict in ‘world history revolves around class struggle’ (Ashesi University 1). Transcribers of Marx’s works, Sam Richards and Paul Saba would sum this statement up; “They (higher class) insisted that there is only one way
Once Harker escaped and arrived safely home with his new wife, the count seizes the opportunity to use both his time and means to toy with these mere mortals, to the point of insanity. “Bah! What good are peasants without a leader? Where ends the war without a brain and heart to conduct it?” (Stoker 30). The boyar Count Dracula signifies the cold, adverse characteristics of an immoral conqueror, only out for his own interests as his violent ancestors in their Turkish wars. As Harker and his comrades are, to all onlookers of fashion and status of living, between the middle class and lower middle class, Harker cannot help thinking how he has aided this unconquerable monster to migrate to his homeland, as well as the dangerous position his countrymen find themselves. “This was the being I was helping to transfer to London, where, perhaps, for centuries to come he might, amongst its teeming millions, satiate his lust for blood, and create a new and ever-widening circle of semi-demons to batten on the helpless. The very thought drove me mad” (Stoker 53). However, Harker and his companions symbolize all that is good, and right, and moral within a lower-class, persons whose values trump their own desires. “I am, I know, either being …show more content…
In multiple scenes in the book, the Count obviously chooses his victims to spite others from a lower class, in which they, the lower class, really have no power to avoid such dreadful encounters without suffering fatal consequences. The Count’s victims were obviously chosen strategically, Lucy being the first target and Mina the second of the count’s immoral design: “My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side. Your girls that you all love are mine already; and through them, you and others shall yet be mine - my creatures, to do my bidding and to be my jackals when I want to feed” (Stoker 300); and the patient at the institution “Renfield had somehow met with some accident. He had heard him yell; and when he went to him found him lying on his face on the floor, all covered with blood” (Stoker 268) –all innocent, but caught in the trance of ‘trained’ followers. There’s an obvious discrepancy between the corrupted count and ethically sound peasants—as Marx would say, the conflict in ‘world history revolves around class struggle’ (Ashesi University 1). Transcribers of Marx’s works, Sam Richards and Paul Saba would sum this statement up; “They (higher class) insisted that there is only one way