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Are you a fiend for spooky stories? If you said yes then Dracula might just be the book for you. Dracula, or should I say Count Dracula, is an elderly looking gentlemen who lives in a castle in Transylvania. He possesses an undead curse that he wants to usher to England in search of new blood. Dracula feeds on the blood of living humans and can also command them. A man by the name of Van Helsing plots an attack on Dracula to bring him down. If you would love to learn more about this nail biter,…

Most people are aware that initially judging others by their appearance is usually wrong. In the novel, Dracula by Bram Stoker, the protagonist, Van Helsing, becomes the protector of everyone threatened by the evil, Count Dracula. In England, others see Van Helsing as an outsider, but as an outsider, he utilizes his knowledge of superstitions to stop Dracula. Van Helsing becomes the foil to Dracula, representing Dracula in physique and physicals traits but symbolizes absolute good compared to…

nightmares, Bram Stoker’s Count Dracula. Dracula, who has appeared in many media outlets from the big screen of Hollywood to the bright lights of Broadway, is thought by many to have been inspired by the Wallachian Voivode that is better known as Vlad the Impaler. There is, however, little evidence that backs this assumption. In fact, there is actually a lot of evidence that refutes the idea that Stoker drew his inspiration for the Count from Vlad the Impaler, including evidence from Count…

sexualized character. Bram Stoker thinks that women should follow the Victorian ideas of purity, chastity, and submission characterized through the three female vampires, Lucy Westenra, and Mina Harker. Jonathan Harker met the three female vampires in Count Dracula’s castle. The vampires were describes as sexualized characters. In Victorian society women should be pure and innocent, yet the vampires were flirtatious and promiscuous. The three female vampires tried to seduce him and drink his…

Along Jonathan Harker's journey to Dracula's castle, he stumbles upon many people with various warnings. The most significant, the landlady at Bistritz who asks him if he knows “what day it is?” When he says that he doesn't, she then replies, “It is the eve of St George’s Day. Tonight, when the clock strikes midnight, all evil things in the world will have full sway.” She is very persistent in warning him and places a crucifix necklace around his neck, which shows to be useful later on in the…

life until it invariably meets its end. He is shown to be a man of many values as well as a person with a hidden personality. Dracula, the iconic figure of Bram Stoker’s novel of the same name, is a rather unique individual. Minor glimpses into the count…

sleep since her mysterious attack. Garlic is a recurring symbol in the text because it was used as a powerful weapon against evil. By being under the care and supervision of Dr Van Helsing and the use of the garlic flowers Lucy has found some sort of peace. She felt secure for her fear had vanished for a moment. Stoker makes it clear that Lucy feels protected the following is proof of this, “Dr Van-Helsing has been with me all this bad dreaming seems to have passed away: the noises that used…

“Dracula 2000” is a movie that unfolds with, a London antiques dealer travels to New Orleans to save his estranged daughter form his nemesis, Count Dracula. Count Dracula is concealed is a metal coffin in a high tech safe owned by Van Hesling, who has taking Dracula’s blood; to live internal until he figures out a way to kill the immortal beast who is after his daughter Mary Hesling. Thieves break into the safe in a Carfax Abbey in search for paintings to cash – out, but finds a coffins which…

The book begins with a modernist architect, Le Corbusier, visiting New York City. Le Corbusier marveled both the city and the musical culture of African-Americans. He believed, “jazz is an event representing the forces of today” (p. 3). The forces of today are the industrialization and mass production of American society. He even goes on to state that American society is a “machine for living” (p. 3). Le Corbusier believed jazz reflected and contained chaotic yet continuous rhythmic flow that…

a rather important role, providing insight to multiple central motifs in the novel, such as invasion and blood. Firstly, through Renfield’s inner struggle we learn that he is “not his own master” (Stoker, 211). The motif of invasion is revealed by Count Dracula’s control that he has over the main characters in the novel. Secondly, the recurring motif of blood is portrayed multiple times throughout the novel and has been interpreted only through Renfield.…