Abraham Van Helsing

When Quincey Morris, Dr. Van Helsing, Arthur Holmwood, and John Seward go to free Lucy of her devilish ways, she, “...saw us…[but] still advanced, however, and with a languorous, voluptuous grace, said, ‘Come to me, Arthur. Leave these others and come to me. My arms are hungry for…

they go into the room they see Dracula forcing Mina to drink his blood. When Dracula noticed them he went to attack them but stopped when Van Helsing held up some sacred wafers toward him. Dracula then summoned a black cloud to hide the moonlight, as soon as the moonlight was hidden he disappeared. Mina then realized what happened and started to scream. Van Helsing woke Jonathan up so he could comfort Mina. Mina was very upset and scared after Dracula attacked her. After this encounter with…

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…

like qualities similar to being dead like, that can make the visit very uncomfortable and untrusting (Stoker 55). Dr. Van Helsing was most dedicated to solving the mysteries in action. He provides medicinal help and solutions for the town people (Stoker 358). He seemed to have some answers to keeping away the thing that or things that were biting Lucy (Stoker 357). Dr. Van Helsing was first and most helpful to understand Lucy’s state (Stoker 355). The doctor understood that a bat had bitten her…

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be the center of supernatural creatures lives and their plans? I read a part two version of a book called The Vampire Diaries by L.J. Smith. Officially, a new vampire, Elena is learning how to live her new life after she passed away by driving off a bridge. She was lucky to have vampire blood in her system, otherwise, she would have never come back from the dead. Stefan Salvatore, her boyfriend who is also a vampire, helps Elena survive despite…

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…

Rhetorical Analysis of Truman Capote’s “Nancy’s Bedroom” In the passage, “Nancy’s Bedroom” from the novel, In Cold Blood, the author, Truman Capote, creates a vivid description of Nancy’s bedroom to help the reader connect with Nancy. Capote portrays a descriptive view of her bedroom to convey her personality. He uses many rhetorical strategies to create a feeling of sorrow and reveals the femininity and innocence of young Nancy Clutter. He uses figurative language throughout the passage to…

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu - Carmilla Laura, the narrator in Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu’s novella Carmilla, fits into the appearance of a typical female victim in vampire literature. Long before she meets the titular character, she had a dream or rather a nightmare about a woman bearing a striking resemblance to Carmilla, who sang her fangs into the maiden’s body. Despite the fear, she helps the woman after the accident and invites her in. Laura easily and without much thought happens to trust…

Lucy Westenra in Bram Stoker's Dracula has long been held to be possessed of out of control appetites. She is routinely framed as a sexually voracious woman, perhaps even one of the fin-de-siecle's dreaded “New Women,” whose overweening erotic desire is inextricably linked to the horror of her own vampirism and to the violence of her own demise. Reading Dracula as being at the confluence of uniquely Victorian anxieties regarding gender and sexuality, numerous of scholars have argued that a line…

Dracula is one of the most well known stories in literature.One of the reasons that it is so well known and is such a compelling story is that the main character is not shown most of the time.When he is shown he commits actions that are so compelling that it changes the story,Such as how he kills Reinfield and how everyone in the story wants to kill Dracula while he doesn’t commit many actions.Today we will find out how Bram stoker keeps his title character so much in the shadows for so much of…