Monstrous Locations In The Hobbit By Bram Stoker

Two Monstrous Locations One of the most significant places for anyone or anything is where they live. A home is the place that holds their life, memories, and things that are important to them. For example, most people hang pictures of their love ones, and take time to decorate. A decoration is like pouring one’s soul into an empty space; therefore, people try to beatify their homes. However, beauty can be evil too. On the other hand, empty walls speak louder, then hundred words. Empty walls are associated with loneliness, and sadness. In the Hobbit, Smaug lives barriered in a mountain, with nothing, but gold. Dracula lives in a similar darkness, which displays the darkness within. Their lairs are well representations of what they symbolize. Smaug is a large powerful dragon, …show more content…
This dark force was shaped more human liked then Smaug. Consequently, his home was also more typical of a regular human. Dracula’s castle was first described as, “In the gloom the courtyard looked of considerable size, and several dark ways led from it under great round arches it perhaps seemed bigger that it really is” (Stoker 21). This emphasizes the darkness around the house, and how the darkness spreads a long way. The castle was large, but the darkness intensifies the size of the house, where the darkness lives. Therefore, this suggest that darkness increases the evil or that the evil moves freely around in the darkness. Darkness is associated with loneliness, old ,and death which Dracula brought with him wherever he went. Dracula lives by himself in this castle for the most part. Dracula’s wives also live in the house, but they are not always present. Many rooms are dusty and off limits, because the hold the evil within the house. Dracula asked Jonathan, a solicitor, who came to sell a building in London, to say longer with him. This displays the loneliness in which Dracula lives, thus asking a stranger to stay with