Persuasive Essay

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.

Pale, bloodthirsty, and fangs are some words that trigger readers’ minds with one particular being: a vampire. These creatures have been around for centuries and it is evident how they are all portrayed with negativity, including in Bram Stoker’s novel: Dracula. Jonathan Harker, a lawyer who goes to Transylvania to meet with his new client, Count Dracula, to discuss the topic of purchasing a property in England. Over the course of his stay, he discovers that the host is actually a nosferatu (vampire in Latin). Jonathan nearly escapes and finds himself in Hospital of St. Joseph and Ste.

They shun the light and crave the taste of blood. The mere thought of them could make a grown man tremble. But what if a vampire wasn’t just a horrific creature of the night? What if they were completely human, enabling them to hide in plain sight? Wouldn’t that make them more dangerous? Due to popular Gothic literature, vampires are commonly romanticized to be pale bloodsuckers that hide in the dark, waiting for their next meal. This version of a vampire makes them easy to spot in literature, but is also very limiting in that it only lends itself to that specific genre. However, a different version, laid out by Thomas Foster, shows how anyone, whether they be fictional or nonfictional, can be considered a vampire through analysis of

Being an athletes is one of the best-paid jobs on Earth. Being that they are paid so much the cost for the consumer is very high. The prices of tickets and sports memorabilia have been steadily rising over the years. The average ticket prices for the NHL, MLB, NBA and NFL all rose 5% to 10% this year, according to Jon Greenberg, executive editor of Team Marketing Report. (Mihoces).

“Vampire Religion” is an article written about Bram Stoker’s “Dracula.” The article is one that was found very useful in reading and understanding the story. Christopher Herbert, the author, argues of the importance that religion and events of the world played on the writing of “Dracula.” There are two parts to the article, one is “Religion/Superstition” and the second part is “The Vampire in the Church.” Both parts are vital to the article.

Vampires are very present in today’s society. Many novels and shows, like Twilight and The Vampire Diaries, show that vampires are still integral to our culture. However, the birth of such a cultural phenomenon would not have happened without Dracula. Without Bram Stoker’s novel, there would be no stereotypical vampires that capture the culture’s conscious. Aside from telling a story on vampires, Dracula also explores ideals about the women of the time in which it was written, which is the Victorian Era.

Bram Stoker's Dracula has been reviewed and reflected upon in the literary world for it engaging plot and characters as well as it's hidden undertones. As a modern society, pop culture has reshaped the image of vampires and the image of monsters in general. Today media alters the once threatening figure of blood-sucking overpowering beings into personable, even heroic at times with human flaws that make them more relatable to the average person. Movies and TV have make celebrities out of these fearful creatures. However, the classical tropes of vampirism comes from Bram Stoker’s classic horror novel, Dracula (1897).

The vampire is an embodiment of society 's deepest fears. Throughout literary history, the vampire has always been characterised as a vile figure of pure evil. However the depiction of the vampire is affected by the social, historical and political context of the time. As context shifts, so does the collective fear of society, with the portrayal of the vampire following suit. Dracula, I Am Legend and Twilight, three extremely popular books of vampire fiction created during vastly different periods in history, are representative of this shift. In Dracula, the titular character is depicted as an anti-christ figure by the author, Bram Stoker, who attempts to warn people about the dangers of straying from traditional Christian ideals. I Am Legend, a nineteen-fifties post-apocalyptic novel, emphasises the dangers of a world ravaged by environmental destruction. The wasteland, that was once earth, becomes populated by animalistic, brutal vampires that have been created as a result of an environmental plague. Finally, Twilight is a teen-angst novel written by Stephenie Meyer in 2005 and adapted into a movie of the same name in 2008. In a day and age where more people have begun to adopt humanitarian views, society has put a strong emphasis on rehabilitation and redemption. Contrary to this ideology, Edward Cullen, the main vampire, has a deeply ingrained fear that he is beyond saving thus reflecting society 's fears that one can inherently be beyond redemption.

Dracula by Bram Stoker, is the original vampire book, the one that started it all. From it derived the now so beloved and famous teen-romance vampire genre, with novels like Twilight. However, Dracula is not remotely like the sparkle-in-the-sunlight, falling-in-love-with-mortals vampire any more than Harry Potter is like the Wicked Witch of the West. Dracula is a gothic horror novel set in Transylvania and England during the Victorian Era. The story is told in letters, diary entries, and newspaper clippings from the viewpoint of several characters, allowing for a wide variety of viewpoints that highlight happenings in Dracula as well as present the social issues pertained within. While it contains action, suspense, horror, and romance, it also displays the corruption within the everyday society. The way the women are presented, interacted with, and how Count Dracula affects them brings forth the issues within the Victorian society, especially the men’s treatment of women and the different social and gender roles, which Stoker uses to highlight the situational irony found within the novel.

It seems in this modern world, the most agreeable option, when it comes to moral darkness and light, is to believe the underlying, superlative, and reminiscently instinctual superstitions that are conjured up over generations. Thomas C. Foster has one of the most acceptable theories upon the fictional importance of a generally conventional fear’s relation to life itself; “My guess is that as long as people act toward their fellows in exploitative and selfish ways, the vampire will be with us” (Foster, Chapter 3). Appealing to my beliefs, the well-processed example of vampirism employed by Bram Stoker and his 1897 novel Dracula brings the most common hadal, diffident, and nethermost irrationalities an undesirable lifeblood

Vampires have aroused a perennial fascination within humanity since their fictional materialization into history. However, it is over the course of the last century that these creatures have become an iconic symbol of mystifying horror and inexplicable desire. Recently, the vampire has undergone a significant reconstruction of physical appearance, behaviour, and surroundings, along with, extensive modifications to its super-natural disadvantages. These distinct character adaptations are imperative when considering two of the most notable vampires ever fashioned: Count Dracula and Edward Cullen. The dissimilarity between Bram Stoker’s 19th century, Count Dracula, and Stephenie Meyer’s 21st century, Edward Cullen, is a complex reflection of the contrasting societies from which these vampires emerged.

The novel presents a dystopian outlook of a world infested by a vampiric plague which is seen by Neville as the end of individuality and the defiance of communal, evil, and mechanistic subjectivities. Alien creatures often behave not as individuals but as creatures representative of conformity. They share a single mind with no personality of their own, and a human normally combats these creatures (PG#). This ideology found its way into popular culture, particularly into the science fiction invasion films from the 1950s (PG#). Perpetual war between capitalism and communism in the 1950s produced the conformity paradox. For instance, whenever Neville peers out his window and sees the diseased shells of former human beings, they are all terrifyingly looking back with the same thirst for his blood. He becomes aware that his differences are threatening for the vampires and that he represents the “abnormal one now” (Matheson 159). Consequently, the infected humans view him as a threat that must be extinguished for their protection. This perspective shows the “blind social conformity” Americans had anxiety about if the USSR had won the Cold War (PG #). Communism works on imposed conformity which creates a problem for threatened Americans whose national culture is based on holding onto to their individuality as a stamp of patriotism. Neville is victimized by a similar conformity paradox when infected humans of the “new society” view him as a threat to the safety of their future world. The plot reflects a similar story to American’s dealing with the fear of communist infiltration: a single person fighting against outside threats, including conformity and the perils of the “mob mentality” (PG #). Neville’s feelings of isolation and

In order for society to exist and to continue to exist social order and uniformity are important parts of making sure society doesn’t fall to pieces. Rules, laws, regulations, and even morals and values help direct individuals to what is and what isn’t acceptable behavior. These rules are created by society in order to obtain a social order. Without these things, a conflict will arise due to failure on the part of a societies members. The conflict that isn’t resolved could have the potential to lead to worse things such as havoc or mayhem, anarchy, and uncertainty. The vampire represented fear of those individuals who refused to assimilate to cultural norms and symbolizing a host of societal anxieties about sexual, religious, and cultural

Dracula being the main character in the novel, everything revolves around him. He has a lot of power and recruited followers. Since he is a vampire, he never dies, and he lives sucking the blood of the living. Jonathan Hankers sets

The Vampire in Dracula threatens the very existence of Victorian England. Stoker constructs the vampire as an embodiment of threat by surpassing his Gothic novelist predecessors to bring the threat of the Gothic home to Victorian England (Arata 119). This in turn crosses the boundary between what is foreign and what is national; and dually East and West. Dracula is open to many