There are various vampire tales stemming from the original Dracula. They usually tell a story symbolically portraying an old man trying to purloin the living’s virtue (life force). Written by Bram Stocker, the novel that started it all has transcended into a various episodic movies, television shows, cartoons, myth, and etc. Research shows that the character Dracula, the book was heavily contrived by Victorian era society, and that it also contained symbolism with various characters within the Dracula novel.
The character Dracula is most likely to be connected to a real man named Vlad III Dracula and family that lived in the 15th-century whom was a ruler of Wallachia in Eastern Europe predominately from 1456 to 1462. Vlad although not an actual …show more content…
In addition to the Count’s real life history of killings, Stoker is able to make utilize Dracula by having him provide an unprecedented tradition for future vampire stories to replicate. The renowned author Bram Stoker establishes the vampire tradition within the novel Dracula through implication of having a nasty old man (Dracula) symbolically stealing the innocence of a young woman and essentially stripping away youth energy and virtue in order to benefit their own life. This is shown when Dracula the man described as a “tall old man, clean shaven, save for a long white mustache and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of color about him anywhere” (Stoker 5). Then taking the blood of both Lucy Wentenra and Mina Harker leaving them “unclean” later in the novel. Stoker’s ideas and conventions have been carried through and/or modified in other forms of …show more content…
The Victorian era named for the Queen Victoria is distinguished by its movement for political and social reform. However, this era frowned upon anything that may bring forth a “Blush of the cheek” of a young person. Thus, book publishers and editors would be essentially forced to alter or delete any words that were deemed inappropriate that may bring the “Blush of cheek”. Therefore, within the novel Dracula we find that that Stoker finds a haven through the use of Victorian subliminal messaging that is used within various parts of the novel to convey what symbolically happened. For example, blood within the novel is important within the novel Dracula and most importantly within the Victorian culture. This is shown within the book by such acts as when the character Lucy is given a blood transfusion and when regaining consciousness describes of how “Arthur feels very, very close to me” and “feel his presence warm about me” (183). Here Lucy is found discussing of the transfusion similarly to how one would discuss as if sexually involved. However, the necessity of blood was caused by the peculiar character Dracula with supernatural powers while also maintain the traits and characteristic of a vampire. A vampire is an undead person within Dracula that may suck blood, Vampires are shown to be recognizable by their abnormal
The character Dracula is most likely to be connected to a real man named Vlad III Dracula and family that lived in the 15th-century whom was a ruler of Wallachia in Eastern Europe predominately from 1456 to 1462. Vlad although not an actual …show more content…
In addition to the Count’s real life history of killings, Stoker is able to make utilize Dracula by having him provide an unprecedented tradition for future vampire stories to replicate. The renowned author Bram Stoker establishes the vampire tradition within the novel Dracula through implication of having a nasty old man (Dracula) symbolically stealing the innocence of a young woman and essentially stripping away youth energy and virtue in order to benefit their own life. This is shown when Dracula the man described as a “tall old man, clean shaven, save for a long white mustache and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of color about him anywhere” (Stoker 5). Then taking the blood of both Lucy Wentenra and Mina Harker leaving them “unclean” later in the novel. Stoker’s ideas and conventions have been carried through and/or modified in other forms of …show more content…
The Victorian era named for the Queen Victoria is distinguished by its movement for political and social reform. However, this era frowned upon anything that may bring forth a “Blush of the cheek” of a young person. Thus, book publishers and editors would be essentially forced to alter or delete any words that were deemed inappropriate that may bring the “Blush of cheek”. Therefore, within the novel Dracula we find that that Stoker finds a haven through the use of Victorian subliminal messaging that is used within various parts of the novel to convey what symbolically happened. For example, blood within the novel is important within the novel Dracula and most importantly within the Victorian culture. This is shown within the book by such acts as when the character Lucy is given a blood transfusion and when regaining consciousness describes of how “Arthur feels very, very close to me” and “feel his presence warm about me” (183). Here Lucy is found discussing of the transfusion similarly to how one would discuss as if sexually involved. However, the necessity of blood was caused by the peculiar character Dracula with supernatural powers while also maintain the traits and characteristic of a vampire. A vampire is an undead person within Dracula that may suck blood, Vampires are shown to be recognizable by their abnormal