Dracula

The tension between the past and present is one of the key central tropes that is continually addressed in the novels ‘Dracula’, written by Bram Stoker, and ‘Lady Audley’s Secret’, written by Mary Elizabeth Braddon. While gothic novels such as ‘Dracula’ and sensation fiction based on gothic tropes like ‘Lady Audley’s Secret’ are both presented in a modern society, the plot, underlying symbolism, and settings allows the past and present to persist as a central trope of the gothic. In the early…

Dracula is a classic horror novel that sparked a huge interest in a brand-new genre. Currently, the world is used to seeing romantic vampires fighting against werewolves for the love their life. Instead of fearing vampires people love them and have dreams of dating a vampire. However, I believe that vampire genre was always one filled with romance, and even the famous Dracula spoke of intense love. Dracula a book about horror and gruesome death is largely affiliated with many sexual innuendos…

Literature thus becomes a stage of conflict in Dracula, as adverse reactions to the emergence of the New Woman depart from Mina herself. She first references the concept after going out to tea with her best friend Lucy Westenra, in which she believes “[they] should have shocked the ‘New Woman] with [their] appetites. Men are more tolerant, bless them!” (Stoker 123). Mina refers to a separate class of writers linked to this movement, which she supposes “will some day start an idea that men and…

wholly good, but everyone has evil in them. You might not see it right now, but trust me, it’s there, lurking in the shadows. This is, at least, what Bram Stoker, the writer of Dracula, and Robert Louis Stevenson, the writer of The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, want you to believe through their characters of Dracula and Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde, respectively. These characters use their supernatural abilities to disrupt peace and cause hardship throughout their eponymous works. Both of…

In addition, though Dracula succeeds in transforming the three vampire women and Lucy into perverse vampires, he fails in transforming Mina Harker, the heroine. This is because “the world seems full of good men—even if there are monsters in it” (Stoker 209). Mina’s character is the epitome of what the New Woman is. For example, she is intelligent and hard working, accepting the technological advances and utilizing them to aid in tracking down Dracula. However, with this in mind, Mina is still…

realities. Bram Stoker’s classic horror tale Dracula confirms this notion through it’s self-titled main character, and his startling resemblance to his home. The parallel created between Dracula and his mansion, specifically the contrast between their respective outward appearances and intentions, forges a rigid divide between Dracula and his home, and the rest of the outside world, suggesting that appearance is not always indicative of reality. Dracula is illustrated as an evil force through…

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…

Within the novel Dracula, the author Bram stoker explores the consequences of Victorian Era standards on women. The characters Mina Harker and Lucy Westenra are both victorian era women who were raised in a time where their lives revolved around pleasing their husbands. While Westenra is content with being subservient to her husband, Harker views herself more as an equal to her husband. In her introduction, Mrs.Harker reveals to the readers that she keeps up with her fiance’s studies and…

Bram Stoker’s Dracula expressed the nature of good and evil. The protagonist, Jonathan Harker, a realtor, was sent to the castle of Transylvania to complete a transaction with the antagonist, Count Dracula, an evil vampire, so he can move to England. What Harker did not know was that Dracula had a plan for world domination. Christian redemption was shown in many ways throughout the book. Very early in the book, Harker was making his journey to Dracula’s castle until he was stopped by the…

For our soundtrack project, we chose to do Dracula because we were fascinated by the numerous motifs and themes that Stoker exemplified in his dramatic novel. For our first song-to-quote connection, we looked at the motif of sex and love; this motif appeared in many forms. We thought that the love shared between Mina and Jonathan was, ultimately, the strongest. Jonathan’s devotion to his wife is revealed when he noted, “There was something about them that made me uneasy, some longing and at the…