Bram Stoker

into a different person, and charmed a girl into coming with him and turning her into a vampire (Dracula 2000 27:19-28:05). In Bram Stoker “Dracula”, the count had masculine; but no charm to personality at all. However in “Dracula 2000”, charm is the Counts most valued and used ability. Where in Bram Stokers “Dracula” he uses his cleverness to get him out of…

2014 Christian Tradition in Dracula In Bram Stoker’s epistolary novel, Dracula published in 1897, Christianity is often portrayed through a positive light. Corresponding to most gothic/horror based literature books; many of them have Christian symbolism. The actions taken by the vampire Dracula are faintly similar to many features of Christianity, yet they are metaphorically/darkly misleading. If count Dracula is meant to symbolize the devil then it is Stokers’ way of saying that the evil one…

Dracula is a fictional character based on vampirism in the European Victorian Era written by Abraham Bram Stoker in May of 1897. Dracula was a made up creature of Bram’s imagination from his research of folktale and mythology. His inspiration and research led him to the creation of the now famous stories of Dracula and all Gothic vampire horror stories. In this essay you will discover the similarities and differences in religion and British Literature. Religion plays a large role in this novel…

As the book continues, Count Dracula gains more characteristics. In chapter two, readers discover that he is a tall, clean-shaven old man, with a long white mustache. “Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache...” (Stoker). He also has long, sharp canine teeth. “ The mouth, so far as I could see it under the heavy moustache, was fixed and rather cruel-looking, with peculiarly sharp white teeth…”…

The novel, Dracula, by Bram Stoker was written in the Victorian Era focusing on the ideals of that time. One of the ideals that the novel focused on was the ideal of the Victorian woman. An ideal Victorian woman is pure, chase, submissive, and not a sexualized character. Bram Stoker thinks that women should follow the Victorian ideas of purity, chastity, and submission characterized through the three female vampires, Lucy Westenra, and Mina Harker. Jonathan Harker met the three female vampires…

born within the mind of an author named Bram Stoker. Bram Stoker included many aspects of his life, beliefs and research into the novel. These include feminism from his mother, allusions to Transylvanian history, and his hatred of the upper class. The novel also includes complex characters who are perfect for Freudian analysis. These allusions and psychotic characters scare the reader, and put them in a world where humans are not on the top of the food chain. Bram Stoker’s Dracula can be…

The Other In “Monster Culture (Seven Theses)”, Jeffrey Jerome Cohen describes how particular monsters are symbols of the culture that they arise from. He also provides seven examples explaining to his readers what a “monster” is. In Bram Stoker’s Dracula, director Francis Ford Coppola disguises his character, Dracula, as a cultural problem. In his fourth thesis, The Monster Dwells at the Gate of Difference, Cohen explains that the monster is set apart from the culture that it was created in.…

disprove a God or much else for that matter. Moreover, many previously widely believed scientific discoveries have proven to be incorrect. Who is to say that current theories will not be found as complete bogus? In literary work Dracula, written by Bram Stoker, a lack of superstition and belief in the western side of England, as opposed to the more eastern Transylvania, is more damaging…

Anywhere you look, you are looking at evil. You might not think so, many people may seem wholly good, but everyone has evil in them. You might not see it right now, but trust me, it’s there, lurking in the shadows. This is, at least, what Bram Stoker, the writer of Dracula, and Robert Louis Stevenson, the writer of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, want you to believe through their characters of Dracula and Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde, respectively. These characters use their supernatural…

reinvents the legendary tail of vampires. For example the story of the original vampire Dracula by Bram Stocker is said to be inspired by and originated In Romania, because of a young warlord who came to power named Vald Tepes - Vald Dracula. History states him as a cruel man that loved to torture. This gained him the nickname of Vald the Impaler after his favorite means of torture. A man named Bram stoker took this and reinvented him as Dracula…