Bram Stoker

The film opens up with a flashback to 1462, where Dracula’s story as a Romanian knight is told. This flashback actually connects back to the book where Jonathan Harker writes in his journal that Dracula tells him about his family’s history. This includes the Szekelys fight and defeat of the Turks. But the film’s flashback also adds in the love story motif between Dracula and Elisabeta that is not present in the novel. This romance travels throughout the entire of the film, where Mina turns into…

In the Gothic novels, “Dracula” by Bram Stoker and “The Haunting of Hill House” by Shirley Jackson there are several overlapping themes acknowledging and challenging cultural ideas of gender including gender roles, and gender sexuality. Cultural ideas of gender roles and gender sexuality are explored and questioned in both gothic novels; as the both novels, in their own way, challenge the current cultural ideas surrounding boundaries of gender in that place and time that the novels were written…

Bram Stoker had his novel Dracula published in 1897, and though the novel never gives the year in which the events of the narrative take place, the narrative never informs the reader during what year the events of the story happened. It’s just strange, seeing as how the way in which the narrative is delivered through journals, letters, phonographs, and other such recorded forms. The majority of which are presented with the dates Stoker’s character’s supposedly recorded them. On the topic of the…

told by Bram Stoker, Dracula, there are many types of people shown. The two common ones shown throughout the novel are the non-virtuous and virtuous women. During the Victorian era, there were many women who were either identified as virtuous or non-virtuous women. Many people compare and contrast these two types of women. In the book Dracula, Mina is the virtuous women, and Lucy is considered the non-virtuous women. Throughout the time Lucy…

Existence of Sexuality the Victorian Era The Victorian Era was a period in which took name from Queen Victoria’s reign during the 1800’s. This era introduced it’s people to strict beliefs of procreation only. Bram Stoker’s Dracula introduces women in sexual manners during a time where women were prohibited from sexual encounters known as the Victorian Era. A Victorian woman was one of two things a virgin recognized as pure and innocent, or a wife and a mother. The sexual behavior of a…

Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897) is his best-known novel, the content of which has been adapted numerous times and to numerous media, like cinema, television, other novels or video games, during the decades after its first publication. The story takes place from 3rd May to 6th November of an unknown year with a postscript note dated seven years after the main actions. Although the year is not further specified, the state-of-the-art media, science and technology employed in the novel indicate that…

Bram Stoker’s ‘Dracula’ and Oscar Wilde’s ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ both divulge into the theme of faith and doubt. The presentation of faith differs respectively between the authors in alignment with their contrasting perceptions of nihilism versus Christian divinity, as does the use of doubt as a manipulative device in opposition to the intrinsic doubt of nature itself. Doubt and faith are primarily introduced in two different lights. Stoker adopts the convention of the supernatural to…

There nearly countless incarnations of the famous Count Dracula. Even today, just saying his name is more than enough to get people talking. Such is the staying power of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Originally published in 1897, Dracula has become an incredibly well known and beloved classic. Throughout the novel, the title character represents an inversion of typical Christian values, particularly the act of Holy Communion. This repeated inversion of common Christian beliefs and values are used to…

The combined pain and pleasure of a vampire’s bite sends a tremor down the victim’s spine and a trail of blood down her neck onto her nightgown. In the article Stoker’s DRACULA by Wayne Hensley, he discuses the omission of the overpowering odor from a vampire has been the reason why vampire narratives have survived. Hensley provides an example of how the smell of the vampire has been omitted or spoken about in a less irritating way to get the audience more interested in vampire narratives.…

Have you ever got yourself in a tough situation? If so, what did you do or what would you do? The author of the novel “Dracula”, Bram Stoker, provides an example of how a person in a predicament should not let him or herself be engulfed by fear and helplessness; this is done through the use of characterization. When you let yourself to be overcome by fear and helplessness, your mind can not be able to think straight. In this excerpt, the author characterize his character as a strong and…