Count Dracula

The Irish author Abraham ‘Bram’ Stoker wrote in 1897 the horror novel ‘Dracula’. From all accounts, that Stoker based his horror novel on Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia, who was a malicious count resident in Transylvania, the now-existing Romania. Dracula is an epistolary novel that falls under the category ‘Gothic fiction’, which combines horror, death, love and lust. The word ‘Gothic’ refers to the pseudo-medieval buildings (Gothic architecture), in which many of the narratives are set. By…

together in order to more effectively tell the story or fulfill the comic's purpose. In the comic titled Stoker's Dracula, written by Roy Thomas and Illustrated by Dick Giordano, the illustrator conveys a realm of darkness and terror by using a black and white color scheme of varying intensity in order to rhetorically enhance his work and tell the story of Dracula. Stoker's Dracula is the first in a series of…

(1886), ‘Carmilla’ (1872) and ‘Dracula’(1897). The gothic novel is recognised to have begun in England in the late 1700s with heavy focus on setting to show a decaying world, with the characters following similar roles in each novel. The protagonist is almost always isolated and the antagonist is always solely evil in its actions. These classic gothic novels have inspired countless stories and on screen adaptions…

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 Dracula novel. The character Dracula is most…

moral 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…

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.…

and beliefs - the Victorian age, in which Bram Stoker’s Dracula takes place, is no exception. In Dracula, Christianity especially was the driving force in the Victorian age in Europe, where the tale takes place. When applying the Reader Response lens, it can be concluded that the role of religion is crucial to the idea of vampires, actions of the characters, and the plot of Dracula - religion is essential crucial to the entire work of Dracula. The role of the idea of salvation, a religious…

The physical film and camera are symbols of immortality that will kill the characters, like a vampire. The beginning of the film, Shadow of the Vampire, is the portrayal of the creation of the famous horror movie, Nosferatu, based on Bram Stoker’s Dracula. During this scene, the actress who plays the role of Mina Murray in Nosferatu expresses to the director that “an audience gives [her] life, while [the camera] merely takes it from [her].” The actress playing Mina immediately exposes and…

well as in the film adaptation of Hammer Films Production Dracula (1958), in which Christopher Lee interprets the role of the Count as an aristocratic attractive vampire. In this way, writers and directors of the twentieth century created vampires that made the audience feel more sympathetic towards them than to those creatures of the folklore and the previous literature. In what concerns to literature, there have been many different representations of the vampiric figure. From the beginning of…

In an article by Devon Maloney for Wired, Dracula is heavily cannoned as “the story that invented the genre.” The archetype for the vampire is most closely resembled to Stoker’s Count Dracula. It is in Dracula that we find the greatest similarities to that of the modern vampire: no reflection in mirrors, transformation to a bat, and the creatures must have an invitation to enter a home. Dracula is horror at its finest; the traits the Count holds are enough to scare me into the wee hours of…