Dracula Dialectical Journal

Mina’s unconscious sexual wishes are expressed in her interactions with Dracula through an exchange of blood, which is a symbolic representation for sexual intercourse and semen. When Dracula forcibly

Despite the plot’s complete failure in inciting interest within me, I was intrigued by Stoker’s style and storytelling capabilities. I was constantly curious as to why Stoker was revealing a vast amount of information about the scenery and internal feelings of each character while developing the plot in such a dull manner. Eventually, I came to the conclusion that Stoker is attempting to use rich imagery about both settings and the characters’ emotions to emphasize Count Dracula. While reading each chapter, clear mental images of the settings and the characters’ feelings are formed. Through the story being told from extremely

In Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Dracula is representative of the superhuman ideal that man is striving to achieve. Dracula is a strong willed, powerful, brilliant masculine figure, and through these characteristics he appeals to the contemporary reader. The 1992 production of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, highlights the contemporary appeasement in satanic creatures, through the justification of Dracula and the corruption that follows, reducing if not entirely diminishing the malice of in Dracula’s character. By the late 20th and early 21st century, the representation of the demonic creatures as transformed to present endless happiness and immortality on earth as a morally neutral possibility. Instead of viewing the

After Lucy’s death, Van Helsing tried to convinced Quincey Morris, Seward and Arthur Holmwood that Lucy has turned into “Un-dead” by bringing them to her tomb. They eventually find a solution by plunging a stake into Lucy’s heart. They chop off her head and stuff her mouth with garlic. After Jonathan and Mina’s returning to England, they joined forces with the others. Mina helps Van Helsing by collecting various journals and dairies to retype them. Their efforts were useless went one of Seward’s patient has let Dracula into the asylum to prey upon Mina. These men divided forces among them tracks Dracula across land and sea. Van Helsing takes Mina with him and he killed three female vampires by using sacred objects. Quincey and Jonathan use knives to destroy Dracula went Dracula is about to reached his castle. In 1992, Francis Ford Coppola has released a Dracula movie based on Bram Stoker’s novel. I would prefer watching a Dracula movie rather than reading a book because Coppola evokes the origins of Dracula before he turn into a vampire, twisted the subplot where Mina is the reincarnation of Dracula’s greatest love and the movie ends with Dracula’s soul

I tried to remember what had happened but I just couldn't wrap my head around it. I struggled to my feet and i looked around and saw nothing but black walls and a door. I walked up to the door and tried to open it and it shocked me. There was nothing around me to try to hold to get the door open. So i stood there wondering if I should try again and I did. This time it actually worked it didn't shock me it just. I walked outside and and saw children running around playing. As i stood there the people around me stood there like nothing happened like there wasn't a women standing there like nothing was wrong. I stood there for a couple seconds thinking what led me into this place. As i stood there all the little kids went past me and they were all playing like i was invisible. The weird thing is that all the kids looked like katherine. I thought that was very strange. So i started down the street and all the homes looked the same,cars,clothes,and the way people lived each child had there own home. But the weird thing is that when the children came out of there homes they would carry bottles with them. Finally I got to this little shop called “Little womens

Walking home, suddenly I realize that nothing looks familiar.. I get out my flashlight that I have in my backpack. When I turn it on it starts flickering. It eventually starts working and I just keep walking down the alley. “POW” “POW” “POW.” Gunshots?!? Why is there gunshots.Is there someone after me? Then my flashlight turns off, its pitch dark I can't see anything.Then I hear screaming “AHHHHHHHH.” I start running in a straight line because I can't see anything. All of the sudden someone throws a bag over my head and knocks me out. I wake up tied in a chair with just a light. Thinking to myself “Am I in a room?” Then someone just starts

Dracula is a work of fantasy published by Bram Stoker. Its uncanny success comes from its capability to play on all-inclusive human fears. The novel is a reflection of the anxieties and fears which troubled his era; the figure of Count Dracula is both a timeless vision of evil and the incarnation of turn-of-the-century England's strongest fears. The 1992 movie “Bram Stoker’s Dracula” is an adaptation of the 1897 book. This movie is not the traditional monster movie you would expect at first like the book itself portrays. Alternately, it’s a very affectionate and romantic story, illustrating Dracula as a tormented being with emotions that much like himself can not die. By comparing Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula, to the film adaptation, many differences

“You may be turning into a creature of the night, the monster you cower before most, but it is not all bad,” the blond girl whispered in his ear, as if hearing his thoughts. Dracula refused to dignify her with a response. “Think about it. Eternal life. All the power in the world, at your fingertips for you alone to use.”

I heard the door shut and felt like I was alone, it was still pitch black so I was not sure of it. As the time passed it began to get hotter as if I were in a sauna, I began to sweat and panic. After approximately thirty minutes he had come back in the room but I didn’t just hear one but two voices speaking, I was not able to understand what they were discussing, all I heard was mumbling. As I was trying to eavesdrop on their conversation before I could hear anything they had begun to drag me to another place I was not sure of. I began to wonder why I was not able to see anything but pitch black until I had remembered something very important. I was so caught up with being very frightened that I had forgotten that I was born without my

My room turned to a crisp cold and I felt as if someone was watching me. Then I started to hear tapping and scratching on the walls behind me. I was paralyzed in fear. Eventually I worked up the courage to sprint downstairs to tell my parents what had happened yet they never believed me and had convinced me that I only have a vivid imagination. At exactly 3AM I had woken up to whispers and the sound of heavy breathing above me but this time without hesitation I slid out of my room and as I looked back to check if anything was there I saw the same blonde hair and piercing blue eyes gazing at me through my mirror. My chest felt inflamed like it was about to burst and my feet could not move as if they were chained to the floor. But the most horrible part is that none of my family believed me. And that is only her backstory. I became fascinated with ghosts I loved researching and testing things with them. I read that ghosts stick with someone lonely. Only showing itself to the one person and becoming one's best friend because they know what it feels like to be

Every time I walked past my bathroom door (which was constantly since it was right outside my bedroom) I saw a little girl with blond curled hair and a rose-colored dress. She just stood there, staring, looking like a photograph from 1905. I started keeping the door closed so I could walk by without seeing her, but she was always there when I opened it. Once I stepped in past her, I couldn't see her anymore but I could feel her there. She scared me, but I felt really sorry for her because she was trapped there, just like me, but probably

Dracula. The vampire that so many reincarnations and parodies have been made from. He's the vampire that we all know and love, or do we? In actuality, the famous count was actually a cold blooded killer, not the friendly counting count we've seen on Sesame Street. He kidnaps children and feeds them to his Brides, instead of feeding them Count Chocula cereal. We associate Dracula with a lot of fun, happy things, but he is really the bringer of fear and death. These knock-offs were not what Bram Stoker, the author of Dracula, would have expected out of a book about death and evil. One way that Stoker presents the book is through different points of view. Stoker uses the different points of view to

You’re in bed thinking about the rough time at school you had when you hear the floorboards creak. It was so faint there was no point of checking what it was. You hear the floorboards creak again and then the noise comes more often. You were not going to bed at any time soon so it was not going to hurt to check. You get out of bed and open the door to the hallway, you peer out in the hallway and it was pitch black. You try to turn on the lights but they just flickered on and off over and over again. You see a shadow running past the hallway in to a room. You jump when you hear a sharp shriek not too far away. The shriek echoes in your ears until you realize you should run a find your mother and father. But you were stopped by the shadow. It

“Mom can you tell us about the story of Grandpa Mark and his encounter with Count Dracula?” asked Max “You said you would the next time we came to our cabin in Nebraska.”

It was dark and I heard some footsteps? Like the one that followed me up the stairs that one day. I also heard huffing and puffing but no house being blown away, well now that I think of it something might have been blowing away and it did not smell like roses. And I was down wind! There also was a burning pain in my leg I tried to hold it but when I looked down I only saw my legs bunched up then BANG!!!!!!! Now not only did my leg hurt but also my head AW and again happened until I passed out…again. Then WHIPP I flinged up and realized I was not in the elevator anymore but instead…in the kitchen! “Oh goody you are awake again so how was