Mina Harker

I must not say it". It is not surprising to the audience that the flirtatious and sexually empowered Lucy is the first to fall to the sexual corruption of Dracula. Stoker’s blatant disagreement with the concept of the ‘New Woman’ is present when Mina writes in her journal, Some of the 'New Woman' writers will someday start an idea that men and women should be allowed to see each other asleep before proposing or accepting. But I suppose the New Woman won't condescend in future to accept; she…

topic, with some scholars viewing Dracula as an example misogyny and others claiming Stoker expresses feminist ideas in his most famous novel, it seems clear that two of the Stoker’s main female characters - Lucy and Mina - express two differing femininity models. Stoker’s depiction of Mina as a balanced combination of the New Woman ideas and traditional…

Moving along, we will now examine how the male authoritative figures of the text cope with Lucy’s dualism aroused by their fear of female sexuality. Very covertly in the structure of the narrative, Stoker expounds the numerous of ways characters perceive a present dualism in her character. For example, when Dr. Abraham Van Helsing first comes to visit Lucy Westenra upon Dr. John Seward’s request, we can see how these two perform carefully to bring up Lucy’s condition in her presence, they begin…

In conclusion, uncanny sides of London are visible in both novels. Both Levy and Stoker connect the uncanny to the "other." In Dracula, the uncanny "other" is represented by vampires whereas Levy's "others" are immigrants. Additionally, both novels are connected to the empire: Stoker writes during the Victorian period and is visibly influenced by the imperial mind-set; Levy writes in a post-imperial context as her text depicts an empire that is falling apart. The two novels depict the "other"…

While the beginning of the 18th century marked the beginning of an interest in the ruins of the past, the 19th century witnessed changes in thought and practice concerning decay that impacted the sphere of existence. The idea of degeneracy became an essential concept in many fictional narratives due to an aspiration to diagnose reality in its potential for irrationalism, impulsiveness and violence. The arising social unrest occupied a special place in a set of anxieties designated from the…

the male gaze. This is seen in the three beautiful vampires. What Harker comes across in Dracula's castle are present in his nightmare and dream when it comes to male imagination. The three sisters represnet the Vicorican ideal of how women should act, women should not be sexual confident . Therefore, making the sisters beauty is both sexual gratification for men and also a curse. The sisters give more sexual fulfillment to Harker then his wife has ever done. However, the over whelming sexual…

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…

The topic I chose is Nosferatu vs .Dracula and the three points that I will be using for this essay. Did you know that there are different types of vampires? A lot of people never knew that because a lot of people think all vampires are the same. My points are physical difference, humanness (quality of being human), and living corpse. I will be comparing Dracula and Nosferatu with my three points that I chose to use to compare how they are different. The first point is physical difference and…

The book Vladimir Tod was a fantastic book which I rate 10/10 because the plot was amazing. If I were to recommend the fictional book The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod by Heather Brewer I would say to read the whole series. Reason is because the book can catch your interest right away if you like love and suspense this is the book for you. You get to see the struggles of kid who lost his mom and father. The main characters are Vlad, Henry McMillan, Joss, Otis, Dorian and D'ablo. The protagonist is…

Hektor finds what he's looking for a mere three blocks from his abode, though it's far to close to where he lives. He could follow her, cajole her to further places with his chiseled features and vaguely familiar yet foreign accent, if all else failed there was enticing simplicity of hypnosis, though such acts could be readily interpreted by an outsider looking in, damning all attempts to feed this night and besides; Hektor enjoyed that very idea that they accepted their fate with the added…