Dracul Vald The Impaler

Improved Essays
Everyone knows the tale of the legendary Dracula. The first and the greatest vampire that every existed in the world of fantasy or the real world who really knows? But one thing we do know is that the legend of Dracula has lived on through the ages and with every generation that passes by us all adds or reinvents the legendary tail of vampires. For example the story of the original vampire Dracula by Bram Stocker is said to be inspired by and originated In Romania, because of a young warlord who came to power named Vald Tepes - Vald Dracula. History states him as a cruel man that loved to torture. This gained him the nickname of Vald the Impaler after his favorite means of torture. A man named Bram stoker took this and reinvented him as Dracula …show more content…
But when Jonathan reaches Transylvania and see their culture it is odd to him not knowing that they believe in magic and things of fantasy so Jonathan dismisses the culture instead of trying to open his mind to them he when to Transylvania with and idea that they were crazy This to me was where the film really wanted the audience to think.

Bram’s stockers Dracula shows the world a blood thirsty vampire who was suppose to be a member of high society. but also should the world the role of a powerful sexually liberated women a complete shock to society at the time she did not want to be a common Victorian era wife that wanted to strength her husbands position but instead she wanted power for herself as she played with the feeling of the three suitors that want to weed her she selected the best one of them that would benefit here the most but she also get closer to Dracula who ends up biting here one night and she becomes ill one of her stutters author decides to call for help. So he calls Van Helsen they eventuality start to give here blood in the hopes of saving her, but she ends up dying in the end. Or so they believed Van
…show more content…
One of the more important messages he try’s to tell the audience is essentially ‘don’t judge a book by the cover because no matter how things may appear on the outside, you won 't know until you get to know a person deeper. If we try and apply Dracula to the Victorian era this time period was led by the Nobel class and all one had to do to be considered in essence a Nobel was being titled but one also had to dress the part so and that is how people identified nobility buy the silk they wore. Dracula shows that he would not conform to stereotypes, all though he acted like the rich proper Victorian to where people wanted to be on the inside, he was a killer or some would say a man that had the ambition to continue to gain power until he ruled the world. ‘You do not let your eyes see nor your ears hear, and that which is outside your daily life is not of account to you. Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some people see things that others cannot?’ (Stoker) in his quote to me it reinforces the lesson of not judging a book by its

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula, is written in a series of letters and diary entries in order to display a distortion of events. Although the diary entries of Jonathan Harker is more personal, allowing the reader to be drawn into the plot, the diary entries also includes bias. The mental state of the Harker is unstable due to his fear of Dracula and death; therefore, his diary may not portray an accurate description of what exactly happened. Words spoken as facts in the diary cannot be fully trusted and deemed credible for Harker does not know the truth of everything himself. Instead, the reader has to form their own opinion of the truth.…

    • 139 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    guez-Rivera English 100A Professor Dianna Lobb November 27th, 2014 Mina Murray’s Progression From Dracula to The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Written in 1897, Bram Stoker’s Dracula is a social commentary on the idea of the new woman and her role in society in Victorian era. The novels main female character is Mina Harker, a young lady whose personality is a combination of all the characteristics that Bram Stoker believed the ideal woman should have; she is courageous, caring, intelligent, and submissive. Her diary entries throughout the book becomes a vital flow of information to the reader, as she struggles to remain human after Dracula enters her room and forces her to drink his blood.…

    • 676 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    Berten suggests that feminist critics show how literary representations of women are often “familiar cultural stereotypes”. How far does you reading of ‘Dracula’ conform to this feminist view and what can be inferred through Stokers presentation of his female characters? From the opening chapters of Dracula, the reader is faced with under-developed female characters who often fit into the limited cultural stereotypes presented by Bertens. The clearest example of this is Jonathan’s encounter with the female vampires, who fit into the “dangerous and immoral seductress” stereotype.…

    • 1636 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Improved Essays

    In Thomas C. Foster’s book, How to Read Literature Like a Professor, Foster continues to educate and inform readers about how books should not be taken at face value and usually always contain hidden themes, morals, and symbolism. First, Foster continues informing readers about how to better analyze novels in chapter 3, Nice to Eat You: Acts of Vampires. In chapter 3 of his novel, Foster describes the how the classic vampire story is not what it seems. For example, in Bram Stoker’s novel, Dracula, Stoker portrays the vampire, Dracula, as an “attractive, alluring, dangerous, and mysterious man who tends to focus on beautiful, unmarried women,” (Foster, 25). Dracula seduces his victims into becoming like him and steals their innocence.…

    • 880 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Dracula The Impaler Facts

    • 709 Words
    • 3 Pages

    "Our soldiers mixing with theirs entered the fortress and conquered the city which I set in fire". Facts,myths and legends about a long dead ruler come back to life by an Irish author named Bram Stoker in a new form but carries the same name Dracula a character placed in many good and bad films but many people in the United states don't know his real name but in Romania people know him as vlad the impaler. The terrifying legend of Vlad the impaler or more commonly known as Dracula. A man that waged war on those who he believed to do him wrong with was 40.000 to 100.000 thousand people.…

    • 709 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    Gender Norms In Dracula

    • 2089 Words
    • 9 Pages

    Bram Stoker’s Critique of Victorian Gender Norms and An Unconventional Pathway for Victorian Women to Advantage Their Social Standing The novel “Dracula” written by Bram Stoker appears on the surface to be a traditional 19th century gothic text, but after closer examination, Stoker’s novel develops into a glass shattering feminist novel embedded with ideas about gender norms. Stoker uses the characters in “Dracula” to provide examples and critique for both traditional and nontraditional representations of masculinity, femininity, and gender roles in the Victorian period. Additionally, by incorporating vampirism, Stoker is able to present the feminine qualities that Victorian women should and should not peruse to improve their societal standing.…

    • 2089 Words
    • 9 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Dracula Comparison Essay

    • 721 Words
    • 3 Pages

    In his 1897 gothic novel, Dracula, Bram Stoker defined the modern form of the vampire. His character, Dracula remained popular through the ages, being one of the most popular adaptation source in history. Dracula has created an extraordinary vampire subculture, and an enormous amount of films have been made that feature Count Dracula as it’s main antagonist, or protagonist. However, most adaptations do not include the major characters from the novel, focusing only on the now traditional characteristics of a vampire, created by Stoker. In this essay I will focus on the novel and how different adaptations through the 20th and 21st century differ from it.…

    • 721 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    Gender Roles In Dracula

    • 1596 Words
    • 7 Pages

    Thus, the New Women came into view. They were ready to fight for their voice to be heard, partake in social life, and manifest their right for self-actualization. It is no wonder that, after many centuries of shaping and maintaining certain convenient gender roles, society refused to accept the new image of a strong independent woman. This particular anxiety and rejection of the New Women by Victorian men is reflected in “Dracula” by means of demonizing and vulgarizing them. One of the ways Stoker depicts the rejection and, in a way, fear of the New Women, is contrasting them to the conventional noble female characters.…

    • 1596 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Superior Essays

    In Bram Stoker’s, Dracula, we see the New Woman first being introduced to the reader by the three women that Jonathan Harken encounters in Count Dracula’s castle. Mina and Lucy are a representation of the good, traditional Victorian women in comparison to those three women. In her article "Bram Stoker 's Dracula and Late-Victorian Advertising Tactics: Earnest Men, Virtuous Ladies, and Porn", Tanya Pikula argues that “Dracula not only functions as a ‘kind of ‘test-bed’ for competing arguments and sensibilities,’ but it reflects the ways in which its society’s ambivalent responses to consumerism and advertising were repeatedly elaborated through models of femininity and female sexuality”. I strongly disagree with because I do no think that the…

    • 1278 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The creation of monsters like vampires and zombies presents itself as an allegory the “day to day existence.” Articles like “Why Vampires Never Die” by Guillermo Del Toro and Chuck Hogan and “My Zombie, Myself: Why Modern Life Feels Rather Undead “ by Chuck Klosterman emphasizes the correlation between folktale and reality. The difference between Folktale and reality is that folktale and reality is that folktale are variations of stories from many cultures, while reality is something that exist and can be proven. This creates room for the idea of death to be a significant aspect to the rise of monstrous beings, as listed prior. The idea of what happens after life, known as death varies amongst cultures and…

    • 1165 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Purpose and questions. This essay has 2 main goals. The first goal that will be concentrated on now is to find the similarities and differences between the two vampire characters Edward Cullen and Count Dracula and how they are portrayed in terms of aspects of behavior, actions, life and appearance. The aim is the following questions: How is Edward Cullen portrayed in contrast to Count Dracula?…

    • 981 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    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.…

    • 959 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    “A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away”- Thomas Hardy. Dracula, by Bram Stoker was written during the late nineteenth century, and is classified as a horror film. Further analysis however, has brought to light the buried symbols and themes of sexuality that the novel holds within it. Mina and Lucy are very significant to the novel as they are the only female characters, and they are both given very different characteristics, Mina is the ideal Victorian woman, and Lucy is a rebel to society, which leads her to fall under Dracula’s spell. Bram Stoker makes it very clear that the two represent Victorian women, though what makes Mina the ideal one?…

    • 748 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    Good Vs Evil In Dracula

    • 1388 Words
    • 6 Pages

    In the exposition of the hair-raising novel Dracula by Bram Stoker, Jonathan Harker, an English lawyer, travels to a mysterious and unknown place by the name of Transylvania. He helps a nobleman by the name of Count Dracula who wishes to purchase a house in England. Upon arrival, Harker’s suspicion about Count grows and soon comes to the realization that he is in fact a vampire. Dracula does not wish to move to London for the house but instead he has the desire to drink the blood of English people. Next up in the inciting incident, Harker escapes from Dracula’s castle and manages to flee without being killed.…

    • 1388 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Great Essays

    The victorian era illustrated that men were strong and powerful and women were domestic, motherly and fragile. In this story, one of the first gender inversions begins when Jonathan falls asleep in the newly explored room. Jonathan becomes feminized by easily being seduced by the brides of dracula and allowing himself to be penetrated by their fangs. Not only is Jonathan being feminized, the brides of Dracula are being defeminized. They are doing this by assuming what was seen as the role of a male by seducing him and penetrating…

    • 1454 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Great Essays

Related Topics