The concept of vampirism has been around for centuries now. Whether it is the word vampire or under another different name, these perceptions all have similarities dating back to the origin of mystical creature. This individual is viewed as an immortal or someone who lives off human blood and has a unique beauty. One particular adaptation of the supernatural world is Dracula. Dracula defined the form of vampirism gaining it an important part of how societies look at the vampire’s world, from it’s immortality and beauty to their dark secrets of drinking human blood. Dracula was published in 1897 by an Irish author, Bram Stoker. The horror fiction genre became a very popular adaptation of vampirism. This novel also brought forth the idea of many
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A popular novel like Dracula takes on account the fact that the novel reflects certain characteristics of the real world, especially when it comes to portraying genders. For example, the novel utilizes the word ‘brave’ multiple times by Professor Van Helsing to describe the attributes of a male person. “A brave man’s blood is the best thing on this earth when a woman is in trouble. You’re a man, and no mistake. Well, the devil may work against us for all he’s worth, but God sends us men when we want them” (154). Dracula itself is a set of journal entries that were put together to tell a story. This is important because even though the Professor Van Helsing did not have a journey entry himself, he was very present in Dr. Seward’s diaries. The Professor’s existence through Dr. Seward’s diary has a strong being that gives the professor the power to be that mysterious character that is knowledgeable about the so-called Count Dracula and possibilities to destroy the evil that Dracula represents. The professor appearance in other character’s diaries feels as if the professor’s words have a forceful to make the other …show more content…
For example, the Professor Van Helsing again is vivid whenever he is talking about female characters. He describes them as pure innocent human beings that should not be able to do things out of the ordinary gender role of women and they must be protected by a brave man send by God. “‘Let us go back to Madam Mina--poor, poor, dear Madam Mina. All we can do just now is done; and we can there, at least protect her. But we need not despair. There is but one more earth-box, and we must try to find it; where that is done all may yet be well’ I could see that he spoke so bravely as he could to comfort Harker” (309). This is one of the examples were the professor uses his authority of the situation to define Mina as poor women. Not poor as in money, but poor as in innocent powerless women that need men to protect them from evil. It builds a conception that all women are poor, in a sense that they are weak and cannot take care of themselves. This sets the standards for all women, especially to young girls who will grow up to have the mentality that they should be like the women in the novel. Women are not given the chance to set a code for themselves because there is a male author already writing about how women should be like. Bravery plays an important role in this passage as well because it makes
A popular novel like Dracula takes on account the fact that the novel reflects certain characteristics of the real world, especially when it comes to portraying genders. For example, the novel utilizes the word ‘brave’ multiple times by Professor Van Helsing to describe the attributes of a male person. “A brave man’s blood is the best thing on this earth when a woman is in trouble. You’re a man, and no mistake. Well, the devil may work against us for all he’s worth, but God sends us men when we want them” (154). Dracula itself is a set of journal entries that were put together to tell a story. This is important because even though the Professor Van Helsing did not have a journey entry himself, he was very present in Dr. Seward’s diaries. The Professor’s existence through Dr. Seward’s diary has a strong being that gives the professor the power to be that mysterious character that is knowledgeable about the so-called Count Dracula and possibilities to destroy the evil that Dracula represents. The professor appearance in other character’s diaries feels as if the professor’s words have a forceful to make the other …show more content…
For example, the Professor Van Helsing again is vivid whenever he is talking about female characters. He describes them as pure innocent human beings that should not be able to do things out of the ordinary gender role of women and they must be protected by a brave man send by God. “‘Let us go back to Madam Mina--poor, poor, dear Madam Mina. All we can do just now is done; and we can there, at least protect her. But we need not despair. There is but one more earth-box, and we must try to find it; where that is done all may yet be well’ I could see that he spoke so bravely as he could to comfort Harker” (309). This is one of the examples were the professor uses his authority of the situation to define Mina as poor women. Not poor as in money, but poor as in innocent powerless women that need men to protect them from evil. It builds a conception that all women are poor, in a sense that they are weak and cannot take care of themselves. This sets the standards for all women, especially to young girls who will grow up to have the mentality that they should be like the women in the novel. Women are not given the chance to set a code for themselves because there is a male author already writing about how women should be like. Bravery plays an important role in this passage as well because it makes