Abraham Van Helsing

Anne Rice’s novel Interview with the Vampire (1976) takes the life of vampire Louis Pointe du Lac as the subject matter. A reporter wants to listen to his story so Louis starts to tell how he became a vampire and what he had been through. Louis mentions that he used to be a plantation master and he suffered a lot after the death of his wife while giving birth to their child in 1791 of Spanish Louisiana. Then he is turned into a vampire by Lestat and hates being a vampire after killing people and…

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…

Mieville espouses the same claim in The Tain. As opposed to the Morgan Library, the British Museum is the repository of cultural property: “The Fish of the Mirror lived in the British Museum. At its heart, the vampire had told Sholl. Surrounded by the detritus of men and women from ancient Americas, from the east, from the old Greece and Egypt…. The Fish of the Mirror lived in the corridors made of time, of incarceration…” (74). The patchogues understand the museum as a site of power, which…

What exactly is required to make a classic novel into a successful film? How do directors effectively construct a highly visual movie from a descriptive, yet still ambiguous book? Bram Stoker’s Dracula is a classic novel that tells the story of the monstrous Count Dracula and the poor souls who come across his path. Stoker describes characters and places as well as certain scenes in depth. Nonetheless, much of the action in some of the more risqué scenes involved are an implied message rather…

It varies with how each character views them; the perspectives are different. Not only this aspect, the character’s perspectives vary on different subjects. In a scene in the book, Lucy does not want to wear the garlic and finds it weird, but Van Helsing, knowing the garlic will ward of vampires, assures her it is best. The varying opinions seems to focus the aspect of vampires which were kept mysterious throughout the book due to the use of secondary…

Analysis of Dramatic Meaning in Dracula Dracula, performed by Shake & Stir Theatre Company, examines the 1897 Gothic novel Dracula by Bram Stoker. This production follows Jonathan Harker as he travels to Castle Dracula where he is imprisoned. When Dracula is not satisfied with simply Jonathan, he pursues Jonathan’s love interest, Mina, in a quest for love, but most importantly blood. This production explored the theme of love utilising the gothic conventions of isolation and the ‘Other’. The…

Hellsing: The Dawn from 2001 to 2009, as a prelude to Hellsing to provide additional backgrounds to the original work. Hellsing is the story about Alucard, the vampire, who serves the Helsing family to hunt other vampires and ghouls. Hellsing: The Dawn is the history of Alucard that led to his servantship under Helsing. Both works have a strong influence from Bram Stoker’s Dracula, published in 1897, and refer to the main plot and characters from the novel. Dr. Jan Perkowski, a professor of…

Most recently I appeared on SyFy's Van Helsing as a survivor named Doc. It's about a group of people as they try to survive the vampire apocalypse and one woman's discovery of her supernatural powers. It's such an exciting, action-packed show with a kick ass female lead. Kelly Overton, who plays Vanessa Helsing, is amazing. What do you like to do in your free time? What I like to do and what I actually do are two very…

In Dracula, Stoker presents a stark representation of women and attacks the “New Women”, through the voice of the main women characters, Lucy Westenra and Mina Murray, later known as Mrs. Harker. In the Longman Cultural Edition of Dracula, the term “New Woman” is defined as a “single urban young woman, often working in a new clerical job; she smoked cigars and rode a bicycle and ventured, scandalously into the world on her own” (Blake, Dracula 413). Mina is the epitome of the idealized virtuous…

In conclusion, uncanny sides of London are visible in both novels. Both Levy and Stoker connect the uncanny to the "other." In Dracula, the uncanny "other" is represented by vampires whereas Levy's "others" are immigrants. Additionally, both novels are connected to the empire: Stoker writes during the Victorian period and is visibly influenced by the imperial mind-set; Levy writes in a post-imperial context as her text depicts an empire that is falling apart. The two novels depict the "other"…