Bram Stoker

There are various vampire tales stemming from the original Dracula. They usually tell a story symbolically portraying an old man trying to purloin the living’s virtue (life force). Written by Bram Stocker, the novel that started it all has transcended into a various episodic movies, television shows, cartoons, myth, and etc. Research shows that the character Dracula, the book was heavily contrived by Victorian era society, and that it also contained symbolism with various characters within the…

In the horror novel Dracula, Bram Stoker utilizes the symbolic elements in the story to create the theme that any good can defeat any evil(or the mystery solving process). Specifically, the symbolic elements help establish the integrity and beliefs of the main characters. The allusions to christianity and garlic help characterize Dracula as the blood-sucking demon he is. The novel begins with Jonathan staying in a town near Castle Dracula. The night before he travels, the innkeeper “tak[es] a…

man great prosperity, or great agony. An example to support such a statement are vampires; vampires balance out the metaphorical scale as they eliminate those who are unfaithful or fall into the temptation of sin but are weak to religious objects. In Bram Stoker’s Dracula, mankind’s sin is symbolized by one entity, the vampire.…

In Romania, because of a young warlord who came to power named Vlad Tepes- vald Dracula. history states him as a cruel man that loved to torcher. This gained him the nickname of vlad the impaler after his favioret means of toucher. A man named bram stoker took this and reinvented him as Dracula the vampire. The first entry of dracual…

women should and should not be touched over their education, professional expectations, sexuality, and social expectations. Bram Stoker’s Dracula surfaced in the heat of this movement. Stoker’s Dracula is much more than science fiction fantasy about vampires, due to the content included about the female characters. While there is much speculation about whether or not Stoker intended to question the feminist movement or if he intentionally wrote to break down the idea of separate…

setbacks that befall literature and a society existing in a constant threat of regression. These modern anxieties found fruitful soil in literary works that address monstrous characters. One such example is Dracula, written by Anglo-Irish novelist Bram Stoker. The supernatural Count Dracula, a vampire, covets female victims who he can sully with his degenerative blood, turning them into monstrous characters that…

Dracula: From Simple Monster to Global Threat Bram Stoker’s Dracula explains the story of a vampire living in Transylvania attacking Westerners both physically and psychologically. This novel is written under different formats (in telegraphs, journal entries, and plain narrative entries). The protagonists describe their time with the Dracula, and their experiences with him. The reader first perceives Dracula as a simple monster attacking young innocent women. However, later on in the story,…

All through Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897), the use of the well known catholic symbols are used for protection from the anti-Christ. Catholic symbols like the rosary, the cross, prayer ritual, and the Holy Communion Host are used for protection to overcoming the evil Count Dracula. Stoker places Catholic symbols to defend and fight the evil of Count Dracula. From the beginning of Dracula, these symbols are used to say that Protestant modernity alone will not get you through life’s struggles.…

Lobb November 27th, 2014 Mina Murray’s Progression From Dracula to The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Written in 1897, Bram Stoker’s Dracula is a social commentary on the idea of the new woman and her role in society in Victorian era. The novels main female character is Mina Harker, a young lady whose personality is a combination of all the characteristics that Bram Stoker believed the ideal woman should have; she is courageous, caring, intelligent, and submissive. Her diary entries…

“Of all the evils for which man has made himself responsible, none is so degrading, so shocking, or so brutal as his abuse of the better half of humanity; the female sex,” Mahatma Gandhi. In the novel Dracula by Bram Stocker there is an abundance of evidence that suggests that the female characters are treated differently than their male counterparts. In this essay, there will be an investigation into the gender roles of men and women and how it affects the overall outcome of the female…