Bram Stoker

“’Homosocial’…describes social bonds between persons of the same sex..” (Sedgwick 2466). Although yielding a simple definition, homosociality plays a large role within Bram Stoker’s Dracula. One apparent example of this idea is the relationship between Seward, Holmwood, and Morris. Although many literary critics have commented on the implied homosexuality of these three men within this novel, it is through Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s interpretation of homosociality that another idea has emerged.…

Gothic literature began with eighteen century. As a genre of literature, it combines supernatural horror and romance element; and it also reflects the fears and anxiety of society. Dracula (1897) is the one of the gothic literature, it was composed by Bram Stocker (1847-1912). The novel tells the story of a vampire Dracula. This essay will focus on Dracula and show how the concept of crossing boundaries helps to create horror in Gothic stories in aspects the idea of femininity, supernatural and…

in England or America this ‘Loch-Ness monster’ would not be a threat or fright. The same goes for a blood sucking human that lives in the extravagant castles of Romania. Dracula, this mythical monster, actually has very realistic origins. Author Bram Stoker loosely based the mythical Count Dracula off of the very real Emperor Vlad the…

How does the undead nature of Dracula affect the outcome of other characters lives? In the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker, Jonathan the main character travels to Count Dracula’s castle to tell him about some real estate; however, he gets trapped inside with Count who possesses inhuman powers. Jonathan manages to escape back home returning to his fiancee Mina Murray. Mina spends most of the time when Jonathan is gone with her best friend Lucy Westenra. Lucy’s character develops after she has an…

“A brave man’s blood is the best thing on this earth when a woman is in trouble” (page 138). This quote, coming from the famous novel Dracula, captures the message Bram Stoker creates in the novel about the roles of men and women. In the story, solicitor and nobleman Jonathan Harker is invited to Castle Dracula to finish a real estate transaction. He quickly becomes unsettled during his travels due to warnings, crucifixes, and charms given to him by local peasants. Yet, the mission continues,…

losing a loved one, the pain of going through sickness and physically problems, finacle struggles, even emotion struggles like depression and heartbreak. Don't we all wish for a time that we can sleep peacefully with nothing on our brain? I feel like Bram relates this so well to the theme of high and overwrought emotion because we all have thought about having a peaceful state of mind without fear ,dreads or regrets. Another big element in this Gothic novel was Dracula's Castle. I said from the…

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley – first published in 1818 – surely had an influence on Bram Stoker 's 1898 novel Dracula. Both novels are important works of Gothic horror fiction, and both depict monstrous creatures that have become iconic over decades. Each work has similar themes and similar characters. No two are more alike than the titular characters – Doctor Victor Frankenstein and Count Dracula. Looking at the two novels from a psychoanalytic perspective, the parallels between the two are…

by Bram Stoker” (Stoker 3). “Taken place in a shadowy, ruined castle with tall black windows came no…

with tones of darkness or horror. Ruin, terror, sadness, horror, the occult, and the supernatural are all found in many of the most famous books of the gothic genre. Some of the most famous gothic authors include Mary Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker, and Robert Louis Stevenson. Perhaps the most famous of all gothic novels is Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. The story was inspired by a competition between her and her fellow authors after reading a collection of German Ghost stories. The…

character through the use of extraordinary terror. The product fosters this component that arouses the danger of fear in human. The manner of irrational factor overwhelms the natural state of stability by manipulating the boundaries of security. Bram Stoker 's Dracula serves as an vivid description of the social milieu and the variable of fear that terrorize the British society. The symbolic standards function within the late-Victorian anxieties which conflicts anything that is threatening. The…