Dracula

Similar to defiance of Social norms, Stoker uses Vampirism to expand on the traits of sexual needs within the New Woman. When Lucy is bitten by Dracula, she slowly begins to lose the identity of a Victorian Era Woman as her lustful desires slowly increase. Through her desperate need for blood from different contributors besides Arthur, the transfusion shows the secretive intimate connection she has with each of the suitors. By the time she is near death, Lucy had received blood from all the…

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 Dracula himself in Dracula.…

an average adult. This cemetery has been in use since the beginning of Castle Dracula. It was extremely large and could cover a whole mountainside five times over. On the outside there was the human section. It was the cheeriest and most loving portion of the grave. Flowers covered the ground, and the grass was green. The tombstones were angel’s, crosses, and had holy water covering them to keep the ever famous Dracula Family from ‘drinking the blood of the…

Shianne Valdez Ms. Fodor ACL4-1- Literacy Analysis 16 November 2016 Dracula, Bram Stoker Literary Analysis One of the most famous horror novels today, fascinating many readers, Bram Stoker wrote the book “Dracula” to set some ground rules for what a vampire shall be. Because John Harker denies all the warning signs on his way to Dracula’s castle, one can see Bram Stoker’s use of Victorian era superstitions. The Victorian era is displayed in this novel through social structure, as we know…

Diary entries act as a window to the true thoughts dwelling in the mind of a person with the lack of fear of offending another and due to the exceptional way writing on paper allows the words to flow freely and allow lengthy, humanistic thinking. Dracula by Bram Stoker consists of these unadulterated thoughts along with factual reporting from Newspaper clippings. Along with this, letters between characters offer a connection and interaction that generally would not translate well with only diary…

There are several characteristics based on literature Gothic to which the novel Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” belongs that can be traced in the alien quadrilogy. To start with, the very setting of the atmosphere created by alien in the novel are more close or similar to those used during the late 19th century Gothic novels. In the Typical representation of the house in the novel Gothic, the modernity of the setting is coupled with what Chris Baldick defines as “a claustrophobic sense of enclosure in…

“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…

Stephen King and Dracula by Bram Stoker it is seen how there is an element of the uncanny at work. As each of these narratives is read, what we have become familiarized with as human beings becomes foreign and unsettling to us. What we thought we understood has been changed and has now become frightening. To better understand the uncanny I will first summarize how Sigmund Freud describes it, then I will argue that there is an element of the uncanny in “The Monkey” by Stephen King and Dracula by…

In Bram Stoker’s, Dracula, we see the New Woman first being introduced to the reader by the three women that Jonathan Harken encounters in Count Dracula’s castle. Mina and Lucy are a representation of the good, traditional Victorian women in comparison to those three women. In her article "Bram Stoker 's Dracula and Late-Victorian Advertising Tactics: Earnest Men, Virtuous Ladies, and Porn", Tanya Pikula argues that “Dracula not only functions as a ‘kind of ‘test-bed’ for competing arguments…

If only he were less awful, Dracula might have been half-decent. Originally written/published 1897, has become an incredibly well known and beloved classic. In Bram Stoker’s Dracula, the title represents an inversion of Christian values, particularly the act of holy Communion. Throughout the novel, this inversion and denial of common Christian beliefs and values is used to present Dracula, and anyone else lacks those beliefs, as “evil,” as well as to promote the “goodness” of Christianity.…