Bram Stoker

movies such as the ones to be discussed here. Bram Stoker’s Dracula is one of the first fiction novels to discuss vampires and has become one of the most iconic novels and the status quo to any basic modern vampire novel. The novel follows the story of many characters and their reaction to experiencing Dracula and learning of his fearsome mythological capabilities such as immorality. This discussion will follow the comparison of the original novel by Stoker and Francis Ford Coppola’s 1992…

desire for blood, and humans, pure at heart, desire to end the evil reign of dracula. In the novel, “Dracula” written by Bram Stoker, Mina has the desire to read Jonathan's journal, but at the same time feels an obligation not to read it, these conflicting forces in Mina’s life contribute to a major theme in the book, “Love and Desire.” Mina has conflicting desires in Bram Stoker’s, “Dracula” that contribute to her mind being pulled in opposite ways. Mina’s soon…

Does bram stokers Dracula meet the psychological needs to be classed as a good horror film? Critics say yes I say no. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, and screenplay written by James v. Hart, Dracula is a fantasy movie about a vampire who comes to England and finds his lost true love then proceeds to wreak havoc on the foreign town. The movie, which has a 78% on rotten tomatoes and a 7.5/10 on Internet Movie DataBase or IMDB has also won 3 Oscars and 12 other movie awards in multiple other…

What happened to the classics? Over the years the world has come to see many different changes of the living dead. In literature one of the major changes that has been seen are the changes in vampires. The classic vampire novel Dracula by Bram Stoker has differences between the vampires when compared to Interview with a Vampire by Anne Rice. Now comparing to classics like those to a modern day book series Vampire Kisses by Ellen Schreiber the way vampires are now seen has shifted in a…

dream of Stoker’s ‘Dracula’ (1897) embodies one of the most fascinating and symbolically sexualised characters in English literature. Bram Stoker’s ‘Dracula’ addresses Victorian anxieties regarding its women’s feminist awakening and breaking of patriarchal chains during the time and highlighted this fear in his novel. By focusing on these topics in his novel, Stoker, who was a staunch conservative Anglican and advocate of patriarchy, emphasises how women’s interests were leading to a dangerous…

‘Dracula’ by Bram Stoker is an example of Gothic fiction. What characteristic features of Gothic fiction can you see in the novel? Does Stoker depart from any principles of Gothic fiction? How? Why? Discuss. Understood as a genre in literature and film, Gothic fiction combines elements of fiction, horror, death and romance to paint a bright picture of the quirks of the era. The everlasting popularity of Gothic fiction feeds on our desire to indulge in innocent but hearty chunks of terror. Bram…

The tension between the past and present is one of the key central tropes that is continually addressed in the novels ‘Dracula’, written by Bram Stoker, and ‘Lady Audley’s Secret’, written by Mary Elizabeth Braddon. While gothic novels such as ‘Dracula’ and sensation fiction based on gothic tropes like ‘Lady Audley’s Secret’ are both presented in a modern society, the plot, underlying symbolism, and settings allows the past and present to persist as a central trope of the gothic. In the early…

Dracula in Bram Stoker’s Dracula In Bram Stoker’s Dracula, the antagonist Dracula is a cunning and frightening vampire that hires the main protagonist, Jonathan, to aid in his plans to move into London for better hunting ground. The setting is in Transylvania and Dracula’s castle is remote and many locals had warned Jonathan about the Count but had not explained thoroughly about the Count. Dracula’s castle is immense and deceiving as to mislead Jonathans judgment in order to trick him into…

analysis of Bram Stoker's novel "Dracula". In this paper, I will answer and discuss several questions about the women of the novel. In what sort of ways does the novel engage in the question of women's role in a largely patriarchal society? What about work and career? What about sexuality and desire? What about marriage and childbearing? The women that are introduced to the readers of the novel are Lucy Westenra, Mina Murray, Dracula's three sisters and Lucy's mom Mrs. Westenra. As a writer Bram…

have portrayed is the lust for human blood. Bram Stoker’s published Dracula in the nineteenth century. He formed the myth of Dracula through extensive research from Eastern Europe folktales. The ancient beliefs about vampires are suggested to have arisen from the series of deaths due to protoporphyria. Erythropoietic protoporphyria or Gunter’s disease causes the skin to be sensitivity to sunlight and teeth to be unusually larger than normal (Sledzik). Stoker brought the vampire mysteriousness…