The Victorian Era was a period during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837-1901), where England had an outreach across the world through the use of colonialization and their development of science and technology. Darwin’s evolutionary theory of humans coming from ancestors of apes caused huge uproar, which got people thinking about god and religion. Also, due to the new found industrial revolution causing a rapid growth of factories, mills, industries and the ever growing middle class caused people to yield to the influence of external wealth while capitalism enveloped their spirituality. This had caused a crisis to be manifested in England’s perfect Victorian society, as perfectly described by M.H Abrams “The pace and depth of such developments,
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He is able to serve Jonathan, converse in business matters, and treat him as an important guest, all while, planning his demise so that he can prey on him. This subtly suggest the predatory endeavors of Victorian business, such as how Dracula is cold and calculating on his plans to “colonize” England once he is there. As Great Britain had been an Empire that had its hand stretched out across the world, allowed it to be targeted by external threats, possible attacks and/or even invasion. Because of Darwin’s theory of evolution and his idea of natural selection where the fittest will survive caused disarray among its people as they feared the colonies or countries around them would turn against them. Dracula fits the description of natural selection as he would be the fittest one to survive as he already survived for centuries and had planned meticulously to take over England with his own kind. If Dracula’s plan had come to fruition, the humans fear would become real and they would have to fight back the endangerment and the colonization of their race. This follows the pattern of “natural selection” since once England have been the outreaching hands grabbing the land across the world but now they have been the one determined to be captured and
He is able to serve Jonathan, converse in business matters, and treat him as an important guest, all while, planning his demise so that he can prey on him. This subtly suggest the predatory endeavors of Victorian business, such as how Dracula is cold and calculating on his plans to “colonize” England once he is there. As Great Britain had been an Empire that had its hand stretched out across the world, allowed it to be targeted by external threats, possible attacks and/or even invasion. Because of Darwin’s theory of evolution and his idea of natural selection where the fittest will survive caused disarray among its people as they feared the colonies or countries around them would turn against them. Dracula fits the description of natural selection as he would be the fittest one to survive as he already survived for centuries and had planned meticulously to take over England with his own kind. If Dracula’s plan had come to fruition, the humans fear would become real and they would have to fight back the endangerment and the colonization of their race. This follows the pattern of “natural selection” since once England have been the outreaching hands grabbing the land across the world but now they have been the one determined to be captured and