Jonathan Harker

The academy in this novel isn't any ordinary academy. The Academy is filled with different kinds of vampires, such as Strigois. Strigois are vampires who become evil by draining a victim’s blood, causing them to have an extraneous amount of strength. These vampires have the patience of no saint and the temper of a ticking bomb. They live underground, where they are hidden from sunlight and hunters – also known as guardians. Guardians are determined and motivated to exterminate all vampires. They…

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…

In the novel Dracula, during the nineteenth century, a Dutch professor by the name of Van Helsing not only acknowledges but understands the supernatural. During this time period, it was very common for people to deny the supernatural from fear of it. Van Helsing becomes the antagonist to one of these supernatural creatures, Count Dracula, because he is the most threatening to this evil being. The Professor starts to find Dracula's weaknesses and uses them in order to bring him to his doom. While…

On the other side of the spectrum, Mina Murray from The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is a character who is only bound by her own perception. In the beginning of The League, she was given a task by Campion Bond, who is an Intermediary between The League and Mina Murray. She was assigned to recruit high value assets for the sake of Her Majesty. Not only does Mina have success with her assignment, but she also ends up leading the League in its fight to retrieve cavorite from Fu Manchu.…

associated with evil; bats, wolves et cetera. Whilst in Transylvania, it becomes apparant to Harker that Dracula has a “quiet smile, with the sharp, canine teeth lying over the red under-lip” (Stoker 37). Harker was suspicious of the Count straight away and he was shaken when he sees the Count scale the walls of his castle. "What I saw was the Count’s head coming out from the window. . . . I was at first…

In Dracula, written in 1897 by Bram Stoker, Lucy Westenra and Mina Murray are the two lead female character roles. They are close friends, despite their age difference. They are different in several ways; Lucy is a teenager while Mina is an educated schoolteacher. Lucy is immature and clouded by her emotions and feelings, whereas Mina is level headed and maintains her composure. And finally, Lucy is deeply concerned with finding a husband for comfort and Mina is financially stable and…

who committed suicide. This eventually leads to Mina falling in love with Dracula, even though she marries Jonathan. However, the story from the novel depicts Mina as herself, not as a reincarnation of another, and never mentions anything of Dracula’s first/former wives (excluding the three undead brides). There is a good chance that this was…

Rhetorical Analysis of Truman Capote’s “Nancy’s Bedroom” In the passage, “Nancy’s Bedroom” from the novel, In Cold Blood, the author, Truman Capote, creates a vivid description of Nancy’s bedroom to help the reader connect with Nancy. Capote portrays a descriptive view of her bedroom to convey her personality. He uses many rhetorical strategies to create a feeling of sorrow and reveals the femininity and innocence of young Nancy Clutter. He uses figurative language throughout the passage to…

Lucy Westenra in Bram Stoker's Dracula has long been held to be possessed of out of control appetites. She is routinely framed as a sexually voracious woman, perhaps even one of the fin-de-siecle's dreaded “New Women,” whose overweening erotic desire is inextricably linked to the horror of her own vampirism and to the violence of her own demise. Reading Dracula as being at the confluence of uniquely Victorian anxieties regarding gender and sexuality, numerous of scholars have argued that a line…

passed so quickly that I could hardly believe that it was ever there." Chapter 2, pg. 28. The final quote that is about to demonstrate how Bram Stoker achieves how he can use other characters that link to Dracula that shows the fear and desperation Jonathan is going through a day to day…