Fear In Bram Stoker's Dracula

Fear is seen throughout the entire book of Dracula, it is something that we as human beings cannot escape from because there will always be fear. According to the dictionary fear is defined as an unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous, likely to cause pain or pose a threat to you or anyone around you. The vampire that Dracula is depicted as all the fears of people, around that time period, bottled into one person. The Dracula figure really helped to clarify what fear would look like. More fear is pulled from that of people that immigrate and the people of England having a fear of the change that is coming in Europe, especially in London. Dracula is also showed as being not able to see himself in a mirror …show more content…
Fear is a feeling we can 't escape from as human beings in society, a lot of people try to avoid fear instead of just standing up to it. Fear will eat a person 's mind out mentally if that individual lets it, fear feeds off the weak in society and causes them to think fear is all around. Stoker wanted to show the reader while reading his book, through his character "Dracula", that fear will find each one of us. Dracula is a great representation of what fear would look like if it could embody a person. We 're all gonna have tendencies of moral sin and fear is just a part of life, but we have to make sure, and this is what stoker wanted the reader to understand, you can 't let fear control you, you 're the one that needs to control the fear. Fear can take control of us both physically and mentally, you only become fear if you let it. We all need to know that there is no escaping fear, just like failing, it is going to happen at some point in our lives, we just need to know how to be ready for it and deal with it when the time comes. Stoker really wanted us to understand that even as bad as it might seem, we have the power and the knowledge to fight it to better ourselves and our society as a