Comparing The Lost Boys, Dracula and Peter-Pan Essay

            Anyone who has ever seen one of the several adaptations of Dracula as a movie will know that it was intended to be a horror story.  Stoker goes to great lengths in order to create an

Dracula is one of the earliest and successful vampire novels in history, which is why Dracula is considered to be the traditional vampire. Beginning with the fact that Dracula must sleep during the day, otherwise he will weaken in sunlight. The first clue was Jonathan Harker’s thought, “I have not yet seen the Count in the daylight” (Bram Stoker, 49). His thought is later proved to be true when Harker sneaks into Dracula’s room and is said, “There in one of the great boxes, of which there were fifty in all, on a pile of newly dug earth, lay the Count” (50). The next being the obvious and most important is his consumption of blood. Another element is he is petrified of

The supernatural effect plays a huge role in Stoker’s Dracula. Dracula is an Immortal being which means he cannot die, which we all know

When his name is uttered, people who know it quake with fear of his evil. He has the strength of twenty men and likes to use it on unsuspecting victims. He makes diabolical plans and wants to slowly devour the population of London. He kidnaped people, kills and turns some into vampires. In the novel, he fed a baby to three hungry women as the mother of the child was looking for it. Because of this, Count Dracula has become one of the most influential examples of evil in literature. From the show Vampire Diaries, you can compare Damon to Dracula because of how sadistic he is and how he manipulates people into doing what he tells you to do. He compels people to follow him like a slave. But the closest comparison to Dracula would be from The Originals Niklaus who always wants to be king and the ruler. Like Dracula, Klaus is the strongest of his kind and the first. He does everything in his power to control things and like to make people suffer for his own sake. But Klaus is also loyal to his family. He and Dracula both manipulate others by getting into their head and even turning them into vampires so they can rule. The only difference is that Klaus cannot be killed or doesn’t get killed because he is that strong unlike how Dracula was killed at the end. Dracula is devoid of empathy for the people that suffer at his hand in the novel. For example, when he is holding Jonathan Harker prisoner, he doesn’t take a

     Throughout many types of literature, violence exists to enhance the readers interest in order to add a sense of excitement or conflict to a novel. This statement withholds much truthfulness due to the fact that without violence in a piece of literature such as Dracula by Bram Stoker, the plot would not have the same impact if it was lacking violence. Dracula's power and evilness led to the violent happenings which began with the conflict of Jonathan's inner struggle, as compared to the conflict which blossomed later on with good versus evil.

Bram Stoker’s Dracula is a story of horror, suspense, and repulsion. The main antagonist, Count Dracula, is depicted as an evil, repulsive creature that ends and perverts life to keep himself alive and youthful. To most onlookers that may be the case, but most people fail to see one crucial element to this character. Dracula is a character that, though it may be long gone, was once human, and thus has many human emotions and motives still within him. Let us delve into these emotions of a historically based monster.

They went to her catacomb, when they found her they drove a wooden stake into her heart and soon followed it up with cutting her head off and filling their mouths with garlic. According to Van Helsing, this was the only known way to free Lucy's soul into heaven. Dracula was not stabbed with a wooden stake, nor was he decapitated. These were all the ways that we were led to believe that was the way you were to kill a vampire.

In ‘Frankenstein’ there were reasons behind the monster’s actions but this is not the case in ‘Dracula’, apart from him needing blood to exist. Dracula callously uses people and situations for his own ends, “Monster, give me my child!” here a woman from the village has had her baby snatched by Dracula, she knows Dracula has taken him and is pleading for the life of her child. The child is, of course, dead and this shows how little regard Dracula has for the innocence of any creature, then he uses his power over the wolves to command them to come to the woman and devour her. Towards the end of the novel, Dracula uses his power over Mina

Dracula is a signet classic novel written by Bram Stoker. This novel is portrayed by an antagonist character known as Count Dracula. He has been dead for centuries yet he may never die. He has a peculiar power of hypnotic fascination but he is weak in god’s daylight. He is immortal as long as he is able to drink blood from the living. He can change his form into a wolf, a bat or a puff of smoke. Dracula get in touch with Jonathan Harker through a real estate transaction. He went to Dracula’s castle through a carriage as were planned. After a few days, he felt as if he were prisoned in the castle as his movements were restricted. Meanwhile, Harker has a fiancée named Mina

Comparing the 1931 version of Dracula, starring Bela Lugosi, with Frances Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula 1993 version yields some similarities. Both films are of the same genre: Horror. Both films are set around the same time period. Also, both deal with a vampire coming to England and causing disruptions in people's lives. Beyond these few similarities are

Even more, the nauseating “cruel-looking” (49) creature described in the novel is turned into a charming young Gary Oldman. Although Coppola starts the film with a brilliant representation of Stoker’s monster, he seems to embellish on the younger Dracula (12:44-13:00). In the novel Dracula becomes younger by gorging himself with blood, but Jonathan Harker describes him “like a filthy leech, exhausted with his repletion” (83). Coppola makes the monster more of a human, and the audience can feel for his and Mina’s love affair. Also, Jonathan seems distant from Mina, and this makes the love is even more

The acute variation between the presented images of Dracula and Edward mirror the different perspectives, held by the cultures that birthed them, on the importance of physical appearance. For example, Dracula’s facial description is “very strong,” with a “thin nose,” a “lofty domed forehead,” and enormous eyebrows, “almost meeting over the nose” (Stoker 25-26). Attributes such as these are not standard descriptors of an overwhelmingly enticing appearance, but rather, detail an elderly or distinguished gentleman. Contrastingly, the depiction of Edward’s facial features is outwardly alluring, with descriptions such as, “flawless” (Meyer 162) and “devastatingly, inhumanly beautiful”

Novel in particular and literature in general is more than just a work of fiction but in fact the hidden reflection of a specific historical era. Although, Frankenstein, Wuthering Heights and Dracula were written in different times and each leaves its readers with different emotion and contemplation stages, they all share an affinity: the presence of Gothic elements. Indeed, these novels are designed to lead their reader into thrilling journeys through spooky dark setting, suspense horrifying plot, and claustrophobic atmosphere. These elements, though appear in various forms throughout these three novels, still excellently accomplish their mission of enticing the readers to be caught up in the narrative.

The late nineteenth century Irish novelist, Bram Stoker is most famous for creating Dracula, one of the most popular and well-known vampire stories ever written. Dracula is a gothic, “horror novel about a vampire named Count Dracula who is looking to move from his native country of Transylvania to England” (Shmoop Editorial Team). Unbeknownst of Dracula’s plans, Jonathan Harker, a young English lawyer, traveled to Castle Dracula to help the count with his plans and talk to him about all his options. At first Jonathan was surprised by the Count’s knowledge, politeness, and overall hospitality. However, the longer Jonathan remained in the castle the more uneasy and suspicious he became as he began to realize just how strange and different

“He speaks in perfect English and welcomes Harker inside, shaking his hand with an ice-cold, vice-like grip” (Dracula, 55). Dracula explains to him that he will no be able to make the trip to London, but one of his trusted servants will be going along with Harker back to London. After supper Jonathan analyzes Dracula and notices one very strange feature, his mouth is thick and white; they cover sharp white teeth, which stick out over his lip. What Jonathan does not know is that those teeth are canine teeth only found in animals. There are exceptions, for instance, vampires have these teeth so they can puncture the human’s carotid vessel in their neck and suck their blood. The first time that Jonathan sees Dracula’s cannibal teeth grow is when Harker starts shaving. He accidentally cuts himself and Dracula leaps for his throat so he can suck his blood. Harker touches his crucifix and Dracula’s “demonic fury” vanishes. The strangest event that Harker notices in Dracula’s castle is “Dracula emerge from his room on the floor below, slither out, head downward, in lizard fashion, with his cloak spread out around him like great wings” (Dracula, 179). This shows that “Dracula is not a person. He is a presence, an absence that requires concealing” (Wolf, 368). This tells Harker that something is very wrong with this man. He recalls how the peasants behaved