The Vampire Lestat

One of the greatest horror stories is constantly adapted into a tragic love story to validate the evil characters deeds. Dracula was published in 1897 by Bram Stoker and was about a group of Victorian men and a woman who try to defeat a vampire known as Dracula. It is a simple horror story in the sense it only follows the ‘heroes’ of the novel, the reader gets no perspective of Dracula. Mina Harker, the only female to survive the novel, is seen as a diligent middle class Victorian woman. She is…

vampirism, as Dracula and the other vampires must suck the blood of various humans for their own survival. The methods which Stoker uses to describe the act of vampirism, as well as other aspects involving blood, implies a certain sexual theme. For instance, during sexual acts, blood rushes to the genitals, and one commonly experiences a feeling of satisfaction and exhaustion. This phase is reflected in Jonathan’s description of Dracula, after seeing him exposed as a vampire: There lay the…

attributed to the entire figure of the count. The Vampire has been so much differently interpreted as representing what the nineteenth-century white male saw as others figure out as threatening the status quo of the patriarchal society of the period. In accordance to Judith Halberstam taking her as an example, according to her, Dracula can be interpreted as a figure for the foreigner, the Jew. While according to Alexandra Warwick, his argument is that the vampire is a representation of the East…

Sady Doyle wrote an article, November 19,2009, about twilight titled, “Girls Just Wanna Have Fangs: the unwarranted backlash against fans of the world's most popular vampire-romance series.” The purpose of this work is to inform the reader on the unwarranted backlash on fans of the twilight series. Doyle go all over the place when it comes to her topics. She begins to talk about the weaknesses, next she goes on to the sales of the twilight series, then she goes to the fans of twilight, and…

lad III was the ruler of an Eastern European region of modern Romania, Wallachia, in the fifteenth century. He gained fame as one of the most bloody and powerful rulers of that era, and as to his constant battles with the Ottoman Empire and also against the Christian forces in that region. Vlad III is known as Vlad the impaler or Vlad Tepes (in Romanian) after his atrocious ways of torture and killing and his lust for human blood. As result of this fact, many cultures have depicted him as blood…

Ruler of Wallachia during the mid 15th century, Vlad III has been called by many names. He has been called Vlad Dracula and Vlad Tepes, or Vlad the Impaler. This came from his habit of punishment by impalement, displaying them on stakes. He would become well known for his cruelty.The Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund founded the Order of the Dragon in 1410, to defend Europe from the Ottoman Turks and uphold Christianity. Vlad's father, Vlad II, joined the order and became known as Vlad Dracul, or…

The three vampire sisters are the least of all the known characters but they play a significant role in the fight against foreign intrusion. Much debate has gone on about how the three sisters relate to Dracula, mainly the debate has fallen under two categories. One being they are the brides of the vampire or the most likely choice that they are his offspring. If true that indeed they possess the genes from Dracula than their killings was very important. Evidence comes in when Harker in his…

In Mina’s journal, she writes, “he can, with limitations, appear at will when, and where, and in any of the forms that are useful to him,” (203). As a vampire, Dracula can transform into various animals and elements: bat, wolf, fog, or dust. Comparably, depression can manifest in different forms and show as various symptoms. As some people battling depression may feel fatigued, others may only experience…

Sheridan Le Fanu’s novella Carmilla, published in 1872 is a vampire story that exemplifies elements of female sexuality and of Gothic vampirism. Vampire fiction in English literature often embodies the fears of a society. The Victorian Era was not as accepting of female sexuality or, even more fearsome, homosexuality. It was common for vampire stories during this era to reflect upon these fears in society. The story of Carmilla was seen as a definitive tale that portrayed the unthinkable,…

In Bram Stoker’s novel, the theme of religion is presented through objects and characters. There are two main holy symbols used in Dracula to reflect the presence of religion which are the crucifix and the Host or the “Catholic communion wafer” (Stoker 324). In their articles, Bowels and Starrs show that Van Helsing represents Catholicism while Dr. Seward and Harker represent Protestantism who later start to believe in Catholicism. Starrs also claims that Renfield, although not directly stated…