Bram Stoker

The novel Dracula was written by Bram Stoker. It is a gothic novel that was written in 1897. These types of novels are gothic because they contain some type of mystery or horror. Gothic novels get assistance from motifs to make them more ominous. According to Dictionary.com a motif is, “a recurring subject, theme, idea, etc., especially in a literary, artistic, or musical work” (“motif”). The motifs that are the biggest part of the novel are revenants, dreaming and nightmares, and the pursuit of…

German Expression: Nosferatu Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror directed by F.W. Murnau in 1922 is one the first and few German Expressionist films created. It was coined as a horror film and a unauthorized version of Bram Stokers novel Dracula written in 1897. Nosferatu is about a vampire, Count Orlock, it was also one he first horror films ever produced. German expression was shown in great detailed in this film. There were. A few points that stood out to the most. Some were symbolic of…

When presented with the Labouchere Amendment, Queen Victoria removed the clause about homosexual women as she sniffed “Women didn’t do such things” and so lesbianism never became illegal in Great Britain. It’s an entertaining story and one that fits with the idea that Victorianism is a byword “for a rigorous moralism centred on sexual repression” (A New Companion to Victorian Literature and Culture, P.127), but it’s also not true but a story that began circulating in the 1970s. We don’t know…

The novel, Frankenstein, was born out of what Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley described as a “waking dream”, one she had while falling asleep. Under the induced hallucinations of the hypnagogic state, she envisioned a pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. In her classic 1823 novel, Shelley writes about Victor Frankenstein, a fledgling science student who embarks on an experiment that most would consider unorthodox and putrid. During his stay at the University…

The role of women in nineteenth century literature seems pretty basic. The women were to bear children while simultaneously tending to their homes and husbands. Though it seems pretty cut and dry, for women, authors such as Mary Shelley and Bram Stoker played with the idea of a role reversal. In their books Frankenstein and Dracula, many male characters take on female roles. One of the more absurd roles is the idea of male characters as mothers. Both of the novels imply male characters as such…

Miss Mina, however, represents the changing role of women during this century. She has a complete knowledge of the typewriters and phonographs and is already shown to be married to one man. Dr. Van Helsing and Dr. Seward are two characters that Bram Stoker uses to provide readers with proof for all the scientific knowledge and theories concerned with Dracula. This is so that the text may become as believable as possible. Dracula is written in first person singular, and the shifting points of…

because after all, it is pure fiction. The same holds true for works of the 19th century, where authors question traditional Victorian notions of the boundaries of acceptable gendered behavior and sexual roles. Specifically, the titular character in Bram Stoker’s Dracula pushes social conceptions of customary gendered conduct through the vampires’ and Dracula’s actions and characterizations…

In Dracula, written in 1897 by Bram Stoker, Lucy Westenra and Mina Murray are the two lead female character roles. They are close friends, despite their age difference. They are different in several ways; Lucy is a teenager while Mina is an educated schoolteacher. Lucy is immature and clouded by her emotions and feelings, whereas Mina is level headed and maintains her composure. And finally, Lucy is deeply concerned with finding a husband for comfort and Mina is financially stable and…

While the Creature is inadequate of gaining his visibility in society, he can retain a sense of moral comprehension of the real world that inflicts his own emotions and conscience. Victor does not feel abashed by his action of abandoning his greatest invention of all time, but instead, he loathes the existence of it. His cowardice arises and persists throughout the entire story until he is deceased. Readers cannot blame the Creature for being a villain in the story, because what he experiences…

Like in the novel “Dracula” the author Bram Stoker uses religious symbols related to Catholicism and Christianity throughout the novel in the battle of good against evil. To start off, Jonathan Harker’s hesitant, but eventually frantic use of the crucifix given to him in Bistriz. Which at first he takes only because it seems, “so ungracious to refuse an old lady meaning so well and in such a state of mind” (Stoker 4). This is a symbol of the readers as they go into this world…