Dracula

Desire and fear some of the most prominent emotions exhibited in Dracula. Bram Stoker, Nosferatu, F.W. Murnau, Dracula, Tod Browning, and Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Francis Ford Coppola. “Human characters are caught up in the struggle between these emotions when it comes to vampires; this opposition drives forward the different plots… vampire attributes such as physical attraction, sexuality, power and thoughtless violence are common threads throughout the studied works. Characters in these stories fear the powerful abilities of vampires, yet show an unmistakable pull towards them. The vampires in all of these works incorporate physical attraction, sensuality, and awesome power. They often use this superhuman strength

With several illicit subjects listed throughout Bram Stoker’s Dracula, the book becomes a playground for psychoanalysts. Whether it be to see a subjects as simple as the conscious take over a character, or a character’s surroundings corrupting its victims, Dracula intrigues in more ways than just its vampiristic features. The following is a psychoanalytic study with a focus on vampirism imitating sexual practice and drug usage today while shining a light on the complex psychology of characters, and how even the author can influence the course of its story.

To start with, there is a reason why Dracula can never be evil. He doesn’t have an innate quality that makes him evil. In the beginning of the novel it seemed like he had some capacity of goodness in him. From the article Dracula and Philosophy, it says “Dracula is not perpetrating evil acts for their own sake, simply to cause harm and chaos”. What it means is that Dracula is selfish and attempting to reclaim the former glory of his family but it doesn’t make him evil for doing that. An example to compare Dracula’s scenario, it is the same as how Dr. Seward treatments were on Renfield. Dr. Seward causes Renfield to suffer, but only because he does not fully understand the distress it will cause him. If he did this in another way out of specific intent to hurt Renfield, he would be counted as Evil. His intentions were decisive. While the results are same whether or not he meant to harm Renfield, his own character is determined by the motives which make him act the way he does. In this case, Dr. Seward is not evil. Another character that would portray good would be Arthur. He was put into a difficult situation where the love of his life Lucy who was turned into a vampire. Him and his group set a trap for her and caught her in the moment here he had decide whether to kill her or not but he didn’t want to see her like that

In the book Dracula by Bram Stoker, he portrays the good characters as people who would wilfully go out of their way to help people without expecting anything in return. Some examples of this would be Dr. Van Helsing and his friends and people who try to help Lucy get back to normal. An example of why Van Helsing is so good is that when Dr. Seward asked him to come help Lucy when she was sick, he stopped whatever work he was doing and went to help Dr. Van Helsing was a vital part in helping to stop Dracula because he was an expert on Vampires. One of the reasons that makes the “good” characters in this book good is that they are not helping to stop Dracula for selfish reasons, they are doing it because they want to see the Dracula get

In the closing chapters, is where the sheer brilliance of both Copola and Stoker come into play, From Myna Harkers journal the final pages are unfolded. At sunset on November 6, they see below them a large cart, driven by gypsies, carrying a box of earth and being driven at a gallop. There are four men converging on the gypsies: Seward and Quincy from the south, and Jonathan and Arthur from the north. The sun is rapidly sinking as they intercept the cart, and the gypsies move to defend their cargo. Jonathan and Quincy force their way through the defenders, and with "strength that seemed incredible," (Stoker 321) This is very ironic for both the movie and the story, because Harker is not really seen as being a courageous strong individual but more weak meable soul. With all his strength Jon flings the box to the ground. Quincy has been wounded, but together the two men fling back the lid just as Seward and Arthur reach them. From her vantagepoint, Mina can see Dracula 's face contorted in hate, and then the sunsets, and the "look of hate . . . turned to triumph." (Stoker 324) This quote is probably the most appealing quote in the book, Because no matter weather you read the book, or watch the movie everyone knows that Dracula is a creature of the night and holds almost all his power then. Dracula jumps out of the box and almost immediately Jonathan slashes through the Count 's

According to one view, Dracula, in many ways, can be seen as a “metaphor for human evil.” A vampire’s devil-like characteristics creates a profile representing all the evil that can manifest in human beings. For instance, one common characteristic between vampires and evil humans is Ego-Centrism, when one’s ego acts like a “tyrant”. This kinds of person is self-centered and takes little interest in the desires or needs of others. Dracula illustrates a form of ego-centrism in that his ego is so high that he believes that there’s no spirt or higher authority that he needs to answer to other than himself. He believes that he’s perfect and judges the rest of the world according to his own standards. Another common characteristic between vampires and evil beings is their continuous hunger for power and need to be able to control others so that they can do them as they please. If vampires are an extension of humans, some people may ask how can vampires justify their actions and be able live with themselves after all the bad things they’ve done. The simple answer is they don’t. Vampires, as many evil humans are, tend to be in denial, lying to themselves about who they really are. They know that they would not be able to handle the guilt associated with their sins, such as murder and sucking the blood of others. Therefore, vampires disguise themselves to make themselves appear normal, in

In Bram Stoker’s novel, Dracula, is presented as a perverted Christ figure because he imitates multiple actions of Christianity, and perverts those ideas. An example of how Dracula is a perverted Christ figure would be when Dracula forces Mina to drink his blood, he tries to mimic the Christian Communion, like when Christ gave up his blood for us. In the novel Dracula also takes the lives of numerous people, just two of them being Renfield, and the mother looking for her child. Dracula also has the ability to transform into different figures, for example a bat and a wolf. God is also has the ability to do this, but Dracula uses this power to do wrong and perverts the Christian church. Alongside with this

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.

The main characters in Dracula change over the course of the story in many ways. Jonathan Harker starts off in the story as an ambitious and hopeful lawyer, who is eager to travel to new lands for business. Once Jonathan gets a glimpse of who Dracula really is, he immediately begins to live with fear of Dracula, especially after encountering the three ghostly women. By the time he escapes the castle and gets back home, he is traumatized when he realizes that his stay at the Count's castle was real, and not a dream. Determined to find out the truth, Jonathan joins up with Van Helsing and the others. By the time the group defeats Dracula once and for all, Jonathan is no longer the person he was before he went to the castle. He, alongside with

I found Riquelme’s theory of how the doublings in Dracula reveal the similarities between characters to be quite intriguing. Even when focusing on Dracula himself and applying this theory to him, once again that doubling of beast versus man comes into play. Though Dracula is physically associated with being a monster, a beast…is he really meaning to be such a creature? Riquelme states that “the doublings and repetitions in all these works blur the boundaries that inform the principles of coherence we associate with sanity…” (561). When applying this statement to Dracula’s character, I do indeed find it validating as I realize myself that though Dracula may have seemingly lost all sense of sanity, he is still a character that a reader is able to feel sorrow for. Even though it is true that Dracula may not be sane, the doublings associated with him being different with the normal characters are in fact blurred. In the novel, the characters that are meant to be different, or “good” apart from Dracula, have indulged in immoral acts

Many scenes in ‘Frankenstein’ are pastoral, thus creating a non-threatening atmosphere, however, it is circumstances and ignorance which result in the creature becoming despised and hunted which in return change his nature and character when he seeks revenge for the injustices done against him. Dracula, from the beginning, is the embodiment of evil - he plots and schemes. One could make excuses for him and say he needs blood or he becomes extinct and it is a form of self-preservation. This is so, however, throughout the novel we are faced time and again with examples of gratuitous malevolence he makes no distinction between man or woman, child or baby. Many scenes in ‘Dracula’ are set in the dark and ominous Castle Dracula, this results in a pervading atmosphere of apprehension.

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

In everyday life, as in literature, there will always be an opposing force to evil. In the novel “Dracula,” by Bram Stoker, Professor Van Helsing acts as Dracula’s main antagonist. An antagonist is the character who acts against the main character, which increases the conflict of the story and intensifies the plot. Through the use of theme, characterization and specific events, the author shows readers how Dr. Van Helsing effectively fits the role of Dracula’s most threatening adversary.

Blood sucking, shapeshifting, killer… These are just some of the myths attached to Count Dracula. Dracula is a vampire, and as we all know, vampires consume blood. In the novel, the author Bram Stoker never mentions how Dracula became a vampire (every other vampire was created off of Dracula), however Van Helsing thinks that he made a deal with the Devil and traded his mortality for that of a cursed soul in return for something else. A lot of myths are attached to Dracula, which is

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