Dracula

Berten suggests that feminist critics show how literary representations of women are often “familiar cultural stereotypes”. How far does you reading of ‘Dracula’ conform to this feminist view and what can be inferred through Stokers presentation of his female characters? From the opening chapters of Dracula, the reader is faced with under-developed female characters who often fit into the limited cultural stereotypes presented by Bertens. The clearest example of this is Jonathan’s encounter with…

stoker’s Dracula and the film Nosferatu. Dracula was portrayed as a tall old man with a white moustache who appeared to be a human and he had a charm about him normally associated with aristocrats whereas in the film Nosferatu, Count Orlok’s appearance is nightmarish and closer to that of a monster than of a human. He is shown to have misshapen eyebrows, huge pointed ears, long claws which are sharp for nails, walks around in an abnormal way and does not have any of the charm of Dracula. While…

Vampires were made popular from stories such as Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Anne Rice’s Interview with a Vampire, etc; these stories have been said to give birth to the modern vampires. Though originally, vampires were said to be women, now they can have any gender. Vampires are depicted as handsome, charismatic, charming…

Presence of the Unsuspected New Woman in Dracula The world renowned Dracula, a novel of seductive vampires, deception, lust, gothic horror, and vengeful murder has a secret. The unsuspected presence of the new woman. Throughout history, the same generalizations and assumptions concerning women have remained intact. Society as a whole, until very recently has considered women of their own culture to be weak, submissive, docile, and bound by marriage. The idea of the new woman was birthed in the…

Bram Stoker’s Dracula is widely recognized as a staple in Gothic literature and has stood the test of time as several of the concepts and themes explored in the book, such as vampirism, gender, industrialization and modernization among others are still relevant today. Stoker’s epistolary novel makes use of several literary devices, including symbolism and imagery along with clever word choice and a melodramatic tone to heighten the suspense. Typically, novels are either written as a narrative…

(simile), is remarkably strong, and has a strange obsession with blood. In Dracula, Jonathan Harker, an English lawyer, goes to visit Count Dracula in his castle in Transylvania. He ends up figuring out that Count Dracula is a vampire escapes. Jonathan ends up in the hospital with brain fever, while Count Dracula makes his way to London on a cargo ship. Jonathan’s fiancé’s friend, Lucy, ends up getting bitten by Count Dracula and becomes ill then eventually dies. The three most essential,…

influential works of horror fiction, Dracula by Bram Stoker has been rediscovered in the late 20th century from the gender studies perspective. Many scholars have pointed out since then that under a classic adventurous vampire story Stoker managed to hide his contrasting understanding of the gender roles of late Victorian Britain, especially the contradicting images of femininity. While Stoker’s attitude toward women is a debatable topic, with some scholars viewing Dracula as an example misogyny…

Unknowing to the public during its publication and Bram Stoker himself, his novel, Dracula, published in 1897, would be destined for greatness and provide an influence to horror and fright that would resonate for years to come. The novel crept out at the end of the Victorian era at a time where science, literature, and even medicine were advancing the western world to a new height of cultural triumphs. And while the Victorian era had slowly developed its own desired personality of moral and…

women and their social roles. During the Victorian Era, the specifics to what women should and should not be touched over their education, professional expectations, sexuality, and social expectations. Bram Stoker’s Dracula surfaced in the heat of this movement. Stoker’s Dracula is much more than science fiction fantasy about vampires, due to the content included about the female characters. While there is much speculation about whether or not Stoker intended to question the feminist…

Shake & stirs adaptation of Dracula followed the plot of the original novel by Bram Stoker. Throughout the performance, Michael Futcher’s directorial choices regarding the elements of drama, acting skills and the gothic style made for a mostly effective creation and portrayal of the dramatic meaning, that there is evil in everything and everyone, and we fear it. The effectiveness dramatic meaning was conveyed through the successfulness of the dramatic action. The directorial choices by Michael…