Abraham Van Helsing

He’s been compared to a god like creature as well as everything that humanity was afraid of in the late 1700s. He has resemblances to Vlad the Impaler and may be just as gruesome. As for Dracula in the film Bram Stoker’s Dracula, the character Van Helsing believes he is, in fact, Vlad the Impaler and you find yourself feeling sympathetic for the films Dracula. Although there are many differences, perhaps the biggest one is the love connections between the characters. I’ll begin by analyzing…

First off, I thought it was interesting that Jonathan Harker couldn’t locate the exact location of Count Dracula’s castle on any of the maps that he viewed. This set the mood of the novel for me. I think the author, Bram Stoker, put in little hints of “horror” to set the tone for the rest of the novel. Being that I have not read nor seen Dracula, I thought the first chapter was very intriguing. Whenever the topic of Count Dracula came about it seemed as if everyone in the novel deemed him to…

elderly looking gentlemen who lives in a castle in Transylvania. He possesses an undead curse that he wants to usher to England in search of new blood. Dracula feeds on the blood of living humans and can also command them. A man by the name of Van Helsing plots an attack on Dracula to bring him down. If you would love to learn more about this nail biter, then continue reading. “Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!” In the story Dracula there is a clash of religion.…

Bram Stoker, the protagonist, Van Helsing, becomes the protector of everyone threatened by the evil, Count Dracula. In England, others see Van Helsing as an outsider, but as an outsider, he utilizes his knowledge of superstitions to stop Dracula. Van Helsing becomes the foil to Dracula, representing Dracula in physique and physicals traits but symbolizes absolute good compared to Dracula as absolute evil. Instead of limiting, being an outsider rather benefits Van Helsing making him accustomed to…

asks his friend, Dr. Seward, for help, even though he knows that Dr. Seward is also in love with Lucy. Dr. Seward calls in an expert, Van Helsing. When Van Helsing tells Art how serious Lucy 's condition is, Arthur 's response is, 'What can I do? ...Tell me, and I shall do it. My life is hers, and I would give the last drop of blood in my body for her. ' Van Helsing explains the transfusion process to Arthur, who says, 'If you only knew how gladly I would die for her you would understand … '…

an assistant school mistress, showing that she has a job outside of the traditional domestic chores. She is proficient in shorthand and is very observant, becoming a very crucial character in the identification Count Dracula and his weaknesses. Van Helsing notices that Mina is an ideal Victorian woman when he says “She is one of God’s women, fashioned by His own hand to show us men and other women that there is a heaven where we can enter, and that its light can be here on earth. So true, so…

Along Jonathan Harker's journey to Dracula's castle, he stumbles upon many people with various warnings. The most significant, the landlady at Bistritz who asks him if he knows “what day it is?” When he says that he doesn't, she then replies, “It is the eve of St George’s Day. Tonight, when the clock strikes midnight, all evil things in the world will have full sway.” She is very persistent in warning him and places a crucifix necklace around his neck, which shows to be useful later on in the…

“Dracula 2000” is a movie that unfolds with, a London antiques dealer travels to New Orleans to save his estranged daughter form his nemesis, Count Dracula. Count Dracula is concealed is a metal coffin in a high tech safe owned by Van Hesling, who has taking Dracula’s blood; to live internal until he figures out a way to kill the immortal beast who is after his daughter Mary Hesling. Thieves break into the safe in a Carfax Abbey in search for paintings to cash – out, but finds a coffins which…

1.) Renfield is characterized as a mental patient in Seward’s mental asylum who has a desire to gain the "life-force" of flies, birds, and cats by consuming them. While the character of Renfield may be considered seemingly irrelevant and extraneous to the central plot of Dracula, he functions as a rather important role, providing insight to multiple central motifs in the novel, such as invasion and blood. Firstly, through Renfield’s inner struggle we learn that he is “not his own master” (Stoker…

used his knowledge of hypnotism to attack his victims, but Van Helsing also hypnotized Mina to reveal the whereabouts of Dracula. In this case, it was used as a force of good to locate the Dracula so that he could be destroyed. Dracula already was linked with Mina and by hypnotizing her once more, it revealed some very critical information. Information that inevitably led to his location. This is partially why Dracula and Van Helsing have been portrayed in film as enemies. Both individuals…