Narrative Essay About Dracula

Dracula by Bram Stoker is a horror story about a hero’s quest to rid the world of vampires from the Victorian era. Readers are horrified by his graphic descriptions and horrifying struggles. However, Dracula is much more than just a vampire fantasy; in this novel, Bram Stoker explores the unconscious sexual desires repressed during the Victorian era and the controversy surrounding sexuality.

Dracula is a horror vampire novel written by Bram Stoker. It starts off with Harker's journey from England to Europe to deal with business that Renfield had failed to finish. Harker meets the Count and stays with him for a while. While he is there he notices how trapped he feels in the castle. He is starting to notice very strange things happening around the castle. Once he realizes he is trapped he tries to escape. He does this successfully. Dracula first takes Lucy under his spell. Mina wakes to find Lucy gone from her bed and goes to search for her. Mina finds her and says, ““when I told her to come at once with me home, she rose without a word, with the obedience of a child.” (Dracula, page 135). Mina is Harker's fiance that becomes Dracula's second innocent victim. Dracula takes Mina under his spell and she falls in love with

Bram Stoker’s Dracula expressed the nature of good and evil. An English realtor, Jonathan Harker, journeyed to Transylvania in order to complete a sale for a residence in London to a Transylvanian vampire, Count Dracula. What Harker did not know was that Dracula wanted to move to England so he can expand his power, creating a new monarchy of vampires.

Vlad the Impaler, a.k.a. Vlad III, Dracula, Drakulya, or Tepes, was born in late 1431, in the citadel of Sighisoara, Transylvania, the son of Vlad II or Dracul, a military governor, appointed by Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund. Vlad Dracul was also a knight in the Order of the Dragon, a secret fraternity created in 1387 by the Emperor, sworn to uphold Christianity and defend the empire against the Islamic Turks. Transylvania, along with Moldavia, and Wallachia, are now joined together as Romania. The name Dracul can be interpreted in two ways, the first translation from Romanian would be "Dragon", but it sometimes also means "Devil". Vlad was not called Tepes, which means ""spike" in Romanian, until after

Researching was never usually my strong suit, especially when I had no idea about what topic to pursue. As I thought about the various events and people I had read about throughout my life, I didn’t have much interest in any of them. Just when I was about to give up and browse through a list of research topics online, one name flashed into my mind. Dracula. I had always loved reading and watching the tales of the fictitious count and I knew the inspiration of the bloodthirsty Dracula was a Romanian prince named Vlad.

Dracula, constructed as the “other” is at odds with the “self” or the typical British characters, which is the reason why he must be annihilated. He represents the “other” in two senses; firstly based on his location and secondly based on his non-humane attributes. The space that Dracula occupies,

The story of Dracula is about an ancient vampire who moves from Transylvania, his native country to London, where he seduces and bites a young woman by the

Everything what makes it difficult to see, for example dimming lights and dark thick walls are characteristics of this type of architecture. Overall you could say, that the count's castle looks like the cathedrals in the thirteenth century, it is a copy of a medieval building.

Castles and strange places are important motifs in Dracula because the entire first section of the story involves Johnathan Harker making a trip up to Castle Dracula in Transylvania―a very strange place. The Count’s castle in Dracula, like any other castle described in Gothic Literature, is viewed as an old, deserted structure of terror. Castles in this time period were thought of as haunted and imprisoning,

on the place; this makes us feel anxious to find out where he is going

Ivan the Terrible and Vlad the Impaler are some of history’s most ruthless men to have lived. When they ruled their countries, they did so with fear and cruelty, and one of which even inspired the legend of Count Dracula. They not only instilled fear in their enemies but also in their own people. These two men have several similarities but there are a few subtle differences that make them each very unique characters of history.

I chose this topic because I love history and I am very curious about historical characters such as Prince Vlad Tepes, which some people consider it is one of the inspirations to the Dracula’s author, Bram Stoker, and some other people think the opposite. It is not sure if he really based his character on Vlad Tepes, but I think that there are some quotes on his

Stoker used this historical basis to build Count Dracula, the now vampirised Vlad III Tepes. It would have been many years since Tepes’s rule over Wallachia, and he would have to hide in Transylvania discretely. As a few centuries passed, we can assume things were relatively tame for the Impaler, as he was no longer battling the Turks and impaling

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

Bram Stoker's Dracula is a true Gothic novel that belongs on any gothic literature course. Focusing in on the recurring themes, characters and settings used throughout the novel one sees how Dracula has set the standard for Gothic literature today.