The Vampire Diaries

The story of the vampire in the gothic novel is one that began centuries ago. Nowadays, the meaning of the word ‘gothic’ is commonly misconstrued. The word originally pertained to a Germanic tribe called the Goths, centuries later it came to describe novels such as ‘Frankenstein’ (1818) , ‘The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’ (1886), ‘Carmilla’ (1872) and ‘Dracula’(1897). The gothic novel is recognised to have begun in England in the late 1700s with heavy focus on setting to show a…

Seward’s diary is told in the present time, which involves a scenic representation. The narrated time is parallel with the reading time. Lucy’s diaries vary more in their temporal presentations. She is writing her diary in the present time (“I feel so happy tonight”) , the present perfect (“I have been so miserably weak”) , future perfect (“I must have fallen asleep”)…

Count Dracula travelling his way to London, England, turning young, beautiful women into vampires and allure them back to Transylvania in the now-existing Romania. The novel Dracula is written by Bram Stoker in 1897 during the Victorian era. The genre is Gothic fiction due to the combination of horror, lust and love. The novel presents several Gothic devices, which frame the literary work.…

hell-fire instead of the pure, gentle orbs we knew” (226). This shows how the others know Lucy to be a sweet, harmless, girl but the reality at the time is that Lucy is not who she once was. Instead, she is a vampire who is cold, heatless, and cruel. Another example is when Dr. Seward is writing in his diary about Quincey dyeing. Quincey says, “Now God be thanked that not all has been done in vain! See! The snow is not more stainless than her forehead! The curse has passed away” (411). What…

novels are either written as a narrative from the perspective of a third-person narrator or are a first-person reflection of the story. However, in Stoker’s case, he illustrates the plot to exterminate Dracula and avenge his victims in the form of diary entries, newspaper articles, letters and telegrams to and from other characters which collectively form one big journal. It is also more enjoyable this way because had the story been told in first-person, we would already know the outcome as the…

The attitude of the Victorian age and its gender roles is ingrained into Bram Stoker's Dracula. In the novel, it is transparent that men hold the authoritative position while women are expected to comply with their demands. Stroker often writes about both genders behaving either more feminine or masculine and the repercussions that follow. Today there's a lot of stress on both genders to look and act a certain way; but when Bram Stoker wrote Dracula there was much more stress on people to fit…

In every decade and in every part of the world there has been a fascination about the Supernatural. In most cases regarding vampires, werewolves, and ghosts there was fear and horror connected to them whereas in today’s world that has changed. We are more than ever fascinated with the supernatural. There are so many different things that attract us to such movies, television shows, and books. Toro and Hogan describe in “Vampire’s never die” that in today’s world where one consumes so much,…

Vampire Suicide vs Human Suicide, is it the Same Thing? This semester we were assigned three novels and as a final assignment we were to determine if the characters in “The Night Wanderer” were the same when their thoughts were about committing suicide. Suicide is when someone hits their all-time low and does not know what else to do so they take their own lives to end all the hurt they feel. Tiffany Hunter is a teenage girl that was dealing with a lot of different things such as her mother…

remained so relevant to popular culture as the story of Dracula. Bram Stoker’s novel is widely regarded as the vampire story that kicked off the vampire craze in 1897, and over 100 years later, Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the Twilight series are entertainment icons, stand-outs among a host of vampire entertainment. That being said, it may be time for some variety. In a market saturated with vampires, only the truly spectacular stand out. Count Dracula is still an extraordinary villain, but it…

It is a battle between good, represented by the group of humans, and evil in the form of sexual liberty and vampires. The remoteness of Dracula’s castle, suggesting an abandonment of reality as it is so far away from any form of civilization with the sense of ‘others’ and barbarism. The damsels in distress in this tale are Mina Murray and Lucy Westenra, it can…