Count Dracula

Is Dracula Truly Evil? The definition of evil is morally bad, causing harm or injury to someone or creating bad luck or events. In the novel Dracula by Stoker, Bram evil could be described as committing one or more of the deadly sins. In the gothic novel Dracula, by Bram Stoker, the title character is a very complex character. He could be described as complex because of his shadowy presence always threatening other characters, but rarely visible. Dracula is very clever, he has been around for…

ever in his creation of Count Dracula. Many factors of Stoker’s life contributed to his great writing that changed the Gothic genre into the potency it is today. Abraham “Bram” Stoker was born on November 8, 1847 in Dublin, Ireland, the third out of seven…

blood (Beresford); some of these creatures are their own supernatural species while others are revenants, humans who have returned from death. But even the latter have little in common with the graceful, aristocratic and seductive figure that is Count Dracula, the archetypal literary vampire. Although he was not the first of his kind, many scholars agree that no other text shaped the image of the vampire to a greater extent than Bram Stoker's novel. For more than half a decade the term 'vampire'…

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 sexual trance he describes that all have "the same nose as…

Dracula – Lucy’s case An old saying goes like this: Opposites attract each other. Often it refers to two completely different people finding each other falling in love. In this context, it refers to the main theme of the Bram Stokers novel Dracula from the late 19th century. Love, lust and horror frame the world-known book Dracula, which is about the evil Count Dracula travelling his way to London, England, turning young, beautiful women into vampires and allure them back to Transylvania in the…

[with those] devils of the Pit!” (Dracula 48). Harker’s epitome of Mina is challenged by the Mina revealed in her letters to Lucy. Mina is a schoolmistress; she can type and use shorthand and is learning how to use a stenograph. All of this is done for Jonathan, she wants to “be useful to [him]” (49) when they are married, which determines her domesticity as a dutiful wife…

Recently, people have had a fascination with the paranormal, mainly vampires. From books to movies to television shows, people have found very different ways to view these blood sucking creatures of the night. As the years have gone by, new stories were created and more lore was added to the original folklore. And the beginning of this appeal began in both fifteenth century Wallachia and eighteenth century England. Prince Vlad III of Wallachia, also known as Vlad the Impaler, was a clever…

see the red glowing eyes of the Count watching me. Jonathan tells me I wake him up screaming about bats and blood, but I have no memory of these events. Jonathan Harker’s Journal 10 November, midnight. -- Mina wakes around this time nightly; however, when confronted, she has no recollection of the event. Last night she woke screaming, “I hear the bat coming.” It is my guess that the bat she speaks of is the horrific bat from her memories during the time Count Dracula tormented her. It has been…

For our soundtrack project, we chose to do Dracula because we were fascinated by the numerous motifs and themes that Stoker exemplified in his dramatic novel. For our first song-to-quote connection, we looked at the motif of sex and love; this motif appeared in many forms. We thought that the love shared between Mina and Jonathan was, ultimately, the strongest. Jonathan’s devotion to his wife is revealed when he noted, “There was something about them that made me uneasy, some longing and at the…

Dracula is one of the most well known stories in literature.One of the reasons that it is so well known and is such a compelling story is that the main character is not shown most of the time.When he is shown he commits actions that are so compelling that it changes the story,Such as how he kills Reinfield and how everyone in the story wants to kill Dracula while he doesn’t commit many actions.Today we will find out how Bram stoker keeps his title character so much in the shadows for so much of…