Mina Harker

The first time the reader gets a visual of Dracula’s appearance is through Jonathan Harker who is a lawyer and visiting Dracula in Transylvania for a real estate business. Harker describes Count’s appearance as his face being aquiline, with a high bridge thin nose, with a lofty forehead, massive eyebrows, bushy hair, heavy mustache, sharp teeth, with sharp fine finger nails (28)…

wolf, dog and a bat, Count Orlok does not transform or change into anything. Both the movie and the book have a gender stereotype typical to the time period in which they were made and written. In Dracula, the three female vampires whom Jonathan Harker meets in the rooms are shown as evil as they tempt him with their beauty. They seduce Jonathan and awaken a burning desire within him that they would kiss him. In the Victorian era, women who were overly sexualized…

stage adaption of Dracula was based of of the works of Bram Stroker’s novel. The story of Dracula is one that is widely know throughout generations. It is a story that deals with fear, love, hope, darkness and death. The story begins when Johnathan Harker goes to Transylvania…

escape back home returning to his fiancee Mina Murray. Mina spends most of the time when Jonathan is gone with her best friend Lucy Westenra. Lucy’s character develops after she has an unfortunate encounter with Dracula. His undead nature leads to a variety of different outcomes for all the characters. The powers that Dracula possess reach a point where it is unsafe for him to continue living. As the novel comes to an end, the characters…

In chapter 7 of “Dracula,” Stoker uses tone and personification to emphasise the contrast between the calm and the storm, indicating problems for the town of Whitby. Before the storm, Whitby is portrayed as a quaint seaside town. Thought the weather is “somewhat sultry” (83), the waves continue to “gently roll” (84) and the sunset taking place is said to be “so very beautiful” (84). Stoker establishes a peaceful setting that is portrayed as the norm in Whitby. Furthermore, the light tone leads…

reflection in mirrors, transformation to a bat, and the creatures must have an invitation to enter a home. Dracula is horror at its finest; the traits the Count holds are enough to scare me into the wee hours of the morning. I have no idea how Mina Harker, the woman that Dracula is drawn to, survives knowing such a horrifying monster. I would definitely be screaming my head off and finding the nearest available exit from his…

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…

On the same night that Shelley’s Frankenstein was created, the world gained another villain: Dracula. Stoker novel, Dracula, started a craze of vampirism that is still relevant today. What made this novel mainstream in the Romanic era is the way Gothic elements are intertwined in the novel. Dracula’s use of the archetypal character, drama, ATMOSPHERE OR ENVIROMENT, and decay earns it the honor of being considered Romantic, or Gothic, literature. In Gothic literature, there is always a hero…

the first complete theory of personality, and founded psychoanalysis. His descriptions described the mental and emotional systems of defense, which we all have, but vary depending on the situation we are forced to face. The characters of Jonathan Harker and Lucy Westenra featured in Dracula by Bram Stoker attempt to conform to the social norms of the European Victorian era, however, occasionally the intellectual drive of the Eros and Thanatos tendencies of the Id surface…

The thought of vampires existing has continued to terror and captivate people worldwide since the Victorian Era. These immoral human-blood-drinking creatures have evolved from folk entries. The key idea that all stories have portrayed is the lust for human blood. Bram Stoker’s published Dracula in the nineteenth century. He formed the myth of Dracula through extensive research from Eastern Europe folktales. The ancient beliefs about vampires are suggested to have arisen from the series of deaths…