Morris Venden

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…

driven into the vampire’s heart and the body was burned. Dracula faced a similar death as Peter did. “But on the instant, came the sweep and flash of Jonathan’s great knife. I shrieked as I saw it shear through the throat; whilst at the same moment Mr. Morris’ bowie knife plunged in the heart… whole body crumbled into dust and passed from sight” (Stoker 384). In the novel, Dracula was killed due to being stabbed in the heart just like in the…

“Victorian fears about women's behavior evolved into a national debate known as "The Woman Question," which encompassed issues such as property ownership, marriage contracts, inheritance law, and female sexuality, among others.” A quote from an article called “Staking Salvation: The Reclamation of the Monstrous Female in Dracula.” The “New Woman,” concept which is used to describe Mina Harker in “Dracula is a woman who wishes to be educated, sexually, economically self-sufficient. This shows…

Dracula, in Bram Stoker's novel, is something of a mystery. He’s been compared to a god like creature as well as everything that humanity was afraid of in the late 1700s. He has resemblances to Vlad the Impaler and may be just as gruesome. As for Dracula in the film Bram Stoker’s Dracula, the character Van Helsing believes he is, in fact, Vlad the Impaler and you find yourself feeling sympathetic for the films Dracula. Although there are many differences, perhaps the biggest one is the love…

Are you a fiend for spooky stories? If you said yes then Dracula might just be the book for you. Dracula, or should I say Count Dracula, is an elderly looking gentlemen who lives in a castle in Transylvania. He possesses an undead curse that he wants to usher to England in search of new blood. Dracula feeds on the blood of living humans and can also command them. A man by the name of Van Helsing plots an attack on Dracula to bring him down. If you would love to learn more about this nail biter,…

Most people are aware that initially judging others by their appearance is usually wrong. In the novel, Dracula by Bram Stoker, the protagonist, Van Helsing, becomes the protector of everyone threatened by the evil, Count Dracula. In England, others see Van Helsing as an outsider, but as an outsider, he utilizes his knowledge of superstitions to stop Dracula. Van Helsing becomes the foil to Dracula, representing Dracula in physique and physicals traits but symbolizes absolute good compared to…

The novel, Dracula, by Bram Stoker was written in the Victorian Era focusing on the ideals of that time. One of the ideals that the novel focused on was the ideal of the Victorian woman. An ideal Victorian woman is pure, chase, submissive, and not a sexualized character. Bram Stoker thinks that women should follow the Victorian ideas of purity, chastity, and submission characterized through the three female vampires, Lucy Westenra, and Mina Harker. Jonathan Harker met the three female vampires…

I came home to unpack the night before the first day of 8th grade started. I had just spent a week with my dad before summer vacation came to an end. My mom called me downstairs to have a discussion with her and Ron, my step dad. I assumed it had something to do with Ron’s kids, Vanessa and Trey, moving in with us. But to my great surprise, they told me that they were getting a divorce and Ron would be moving out that night. Those next couple weeks were kind of a blur. My mom was calling our…

Along Jonathan Harker's journey to Dracula's castle, he stumbles upon many people with various warnings. The most significant, the landlady at Bistritz who asks him if he knows “what day it is?” When he says that he doesn't, she then replies, “It is the eve of St George’s Day. Tonight, when the clock strikes midnight, all evil things in the world will have full sway.” She is very persistent in warning him and places a crucifix necklace around his neck, which shows to be useful later on in the…

Bram Stoker’s, Dracula (1897), details the myth of the legendary vampire who wreaked havoc on the lives of Mr. & Mrs. Harker as well as many others along the way. At first glance, it seems as though Dracula fills the role of any malicious occult figure that would grace the literature world at the time this was published, however, I like to believe that Dracula is not necessarily evil. He is rather an organism that is trying to fulfill its biological requirements to reproduce and continue its…