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The Depiction of Sinister Mankind Religion has always brought 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.…

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…

Dracula is a horror novel set in Europe in the mid 1800’s. The book starts with Johnathon Harker heading to Transylvania on a business trip to sell Dracula, a wealthy count in Transylvania, real estate in London. After strange incidents of Count Dracula attempting to suck Johnathon’s blood, and imprison him, Johnathon escapes. The novel then switches to Mina Murray’s, Johnathon’s fiancé, and her friend, Lucy Westenra’s, points of view through their letters. It is mostly just gossip, but there…

exposition of the hair-raising novel Dracula by Bram Stoker, Jonathan Harker, an English lawyer, travels to a mysterious and unknown place by the name of Transylvania. He helps a nobleman by the name of Count Dracula who wishes to purchase a house in England. Upon arrival, Harker’s suspicion about Count grows and soon comes to the realization that he is in fact a vampire. Dracula does not wish to move to London for the house but instead he has the desire to drink the blood of English people.…

given to Vlad III, as a son of Vlad Dracul and a member of the House of Drăculești. Due to the blood sucking Count Dracula, the word ‘Dracula’ began to get its connection to vampires. It was suggested twice in the novel that…

The entire story has a protagonist and for me Dr. John Seward is the protagonist from this story. This protagonist represents a good person that cares for others. This protagonist is a character that has help in different ways. John Seward is part of a group of people that wanted to destroy Dracula. Dr. John Seward does not really have a focus of bean a doctor he is focusing more in Lucy. He has focus more in Lucy because he is hard broken they broke Dr. John Seward hard. Lucy is not in love…

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…

human life. What does horror do? It reaffirms the sacred or holy, through a plot where a human encounters demons and he struggles to get rid of them. This happens in Dracula. The Count has a terrifying sense of the demonic about him, suggested superficially by how he looks. But religious things like a cross affected the Count. Nowadays anything in the form of a cross can be used to chase a demon away, even crossed fingers. Horror has an interesting history. Essentially, the Cthulhu Mythos of H.…

Dracula was indeed a very odd person because Johnathan did not know until later on in the novel that he was a vampire. When Jonathan comes close to the door of the castle, and the count just stands there and not move. The instant, however that I had steeped over the threshold, he moved impulsively forward, and holding out his hand grasped in mine with a strength which made me wince, an effect which was not lessened by the fact that…

important aspects of society of that period of time. Analyzing the novel the Count of Monte Cristo, it is possible to give attention to various aspects of moral that determine the life of the most important characters of the work. The plot of the story and the main events also help readers to feel the atmosphere better. The whole novel is based on betrayals and intrigues, which lead to Dantes` imprisonment and appearance of the Count of Monte Cristo. That is why, one can realize the fact that…