Count Dracula

In 1897, Dracula was portrayed as a representation of Imperialism. He attempted to colonize England in order to become the countries “master”. Dracula imprints fear in humankind. Meanwhile in 2015, numerous contemporary vampire novels present a disparate concept of the blood feeding organisms. The Twilight Trilogy proves how vampires have transitioned over a period of time. The vampire of modern times represents Romanticism. Dracula and the Twilight series are composed of basic fundamental ideas…

Vampirism: It is Only Human In How to Read Literature like a Professor, written by Thomas C. Foster, the point is made that vampires do not have to be the stereotypical bloodsuckers often encountered on TV and in horror tales. Vampires can be symbolized by regular humans as long as they have the qualities of a vampire. He does not mean fangs or bats; however, he means to say that vampires have certain goals and many characters in stories have these same goals. The people that symbolize…

the discrimination of women at the time is Dracula. Bram Stoker’s tale includes the two main characters Lucy Westenra and Mina Harker who are widely different in personality. While Mina is portrayed showing her strength, Lucy’s life is a tale being portrayed as weak, emotionally and physically. Bram Stoker’s Dracula shows the stereotypical view of the weakness of women in the 1890s through the beliefs and actions of Lucy…

Victorian Gender Norms and An Unconventional Pathway for Victorian Women to Advantage Their Social Standing The novel “Dracula” written by Bram Stoker appears on the surface to be a traditional 19th century gothic text, but after closer examination, Stoker’s novel develops into a glass shattering feminist novel embedded with ideas about gender norms. Stoker uses the characters in “Dracula” to provide examples and critique for both traditional and nontraditional representations of masculinity,…

Vampire Suicide vs Human Suicide, is it the Same Thing? This semester we were assigned three novels and as a final assignment we were to determine if the characters in “The Night Wanderer” were the same when their thoughts were about committing suicide. Suicide is when someone hits their all-time low and does not know what else to do so they take their own lives to end all the hurt they feel. Tiffany Hunter is a teenage girl that was dealing with a lot of different things such as her mother…

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…

and by extension the supernatural, acted as a rejection of the common beliefs. Generally, this was specifically done by the Authors in order to convey a relevant message. The Castle of Otranto was a rejection of the neoclassical school of thought, Dracula was a rejection of romanticist ideals and The Fall of…

Attitudes,” argues that men and women have clear rules and guideline in society on the way they should act. Traditionally, masculinity defined as being aggressive and domineering, while feminity defined as nurturing and passive. Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula was set in the late 19th century, when Victorian gender roles were very restricted. However, society behavior and attitudes about woman began to change. The television miniseries Penny Dreadful created by John Logan is a show about other…

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 natural and life…

(2) Explore the power of fear in the novel. Fear was quite a powerful factor in this novel. It was the root of most, if not all, changes in the novel Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. Fear caused many things in this book, one of which being the outcome of this book. Fear drove Okonkwo, the leading character in this book who is known for his strength and grit, to take his own life at the end of the novel. Okonkwo knew “that Umuofia would not go to war” against the colonizing Christians (205).…