Dracula- Fear of the Unknown
All living creatures fear the Dracula character. Fear stems from not understanding the unknown and the differences that Dracula had. For example, how Dracula’s physical body looks to Johnathan Harker who is the protagonist who that becomestrapped in Dracula’s Castle. Jonathan Harker explains how Dracula looks and that is when the fear enters Jonathan Harker’s soul: “With peculiarity sharp white teeth; these protruded over the lips whose remarkable ruddiness showed astonishing vitality in a man of his years “ ( Stoker, 18). Johnathan realized that Dracula was not a man, but a monster. Fear, such as this, stems from what the conscious does not understand about differences. Thus, Johnathan feared what Dracula could …show more content…
Dracula was indeed a very odd person because Johnathan did not know until later on in the novel that he was a vampire. When Jonathan comes close to the door of the castle, and the count just stands there and not move.
The instant, however that I had steeped over the threshold, he moved impulsively forward, and holding out his hand grasped in mine with a strength which made me wince, an effect which was not lessened by the fact that it seemed cold as ice- more like hand of a dead man than a living man.(stoker, 16)
Johnathan did not fear Dracula at first. He did not know who Dracula was at that time before meeting him. He did think that Dracula was strange. The fear did not set into Jonathan's heart until he met Dracula and saw him physically.
As the Count leaned over me and his hands touched me.I could not repress a shudder. It may have been a rank, butBut a horrible feeling of nausea came over me, which, do what I would; I could not conceal. ( Stoke 19)
The differences that Dracula had was not only in his physical body but the way he acted socially with Jonathan. For example, when Dracula is talking to Jonathan about coming and staying with him at his
All living creatures fear the Dracula character. Fear stems from not understanding the unknown and the differences that Dracula had. For example, how Dracula’s physical body looks to Johnathan Harker who is the protagonist who that becomestrapped in Dracula’s Castle. Jonathan Harker explains how Dracula looks and that is when the fear enters Jonathan Harker’s soul: “With peculiarity sharp white teeth; these protruded over the lips whose remarkable ruddiness showed astonishing vitality in a man of his years “ ( Stoker, 18). Johnathan realized that Dracula was not a man, but a monster. Fear, such as this, stems from what the conscious does not understand about differences. Thus, Johnathan feared what Dracula could …show more content…
Dracula was indeed a very odd person because Johnathan did not know until later on in the novel that he was a vampire. When Jonathan comes close to the door of the castle, and the count just stands there and not move.
The instant, however that I had steeped over the threshold, he moved impulsively forward, and holding out his hand grasped in mine with a strength which made me wince, an effect which was not lessened by the fact that it seemed cold as ice- more like hand of a dead man than a living man.(stoker, 16)
Johnathan did not fear Dracula at first. He did not know who Dracula was at that time before meeting him. He did think that Dracula was strange. The fear did not set into Jonathan's heart until he met Dracula and saw him physically.
As the Count leaned over me and his hands touched me.I could not repress a shudder. It may have been a rank, butBut a horrible feeling of nausea came over me, which, do what I would; I could not conceal. ( Stoke 19)
The differences that Dracula had was not only in his physical body but the way he acted socially with Jonathan. For example, when Dracula is talking to Jonathan about coming and staying with him at his