Bram Stoker Dracula Essay

moments and characters in Bram Stoker's blood sucking novel, Dracula. The first picture I drew was a picture of the blood sucking demon himself, Dracula. As I was drawing the vampire, I felt it was important to draw a picture of him because every story has a plot problem, and in Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Dracula was the problem. Without the vampire himself existing, there would be no story. A book or movie is based of a problem that has occurred, and without having Dracula who plays an important role

had no sexual desire, but Brian Stoker's Dracula is a story that is a thinly veiled disguise of the repressed sexual mores of the Victorian era. It is more than clear that there are themes of female sexuality and its imagery. The Victorian society spins around the concealment of women and are put down in scenes and occasions all through the nove. Dracula is covered with sexual subtleties other than the primary characters. For example, the Brides of Dracula that Harker meets in the castle are examples

Why did Stoker decide to tell the story of Dracula through journal entries and letters? Stoker is using the same approach seen in the book Wuthering Heights where you hear the story from several different narrators and points of view. While in Wuthering Heights, the story gets a bit confusing and distorted, I think that in Dracula it brings the story to life more. The use fictional newspaper clippings and telegrams made it seem more authentic for the time period. It does however have its drawbacks

Stoker, in his novel Dracula, illustrates the power of evil with the depiction of Dracula as the Antichrist. Through the use of a variety of rhetorical devices to demonstrate the power of evil over religious and spiritual beliefs, Stoker successfully portrays to his audience the strength that evil has on the mind, soul, and body in its ability to manipulate and control. Stoker presents a juxtaposition between virtue (following Christ) and sin (Antichrist) with gender and sexual undertones to highlight

Stoker, Dracula (1879), pages 9-74 Ch1-6 What I found immediately interesting about this novel is that there are so many warning signs presented to Jonathan Harker as he makes his way to Transylvania and at the beginning of his stay at Count Dracula’s house. For example, all the superstitious reactions from the villagers, the very strange ride up to the castle, the lack of servants, and Count Dracula’s odd demeanor. All of these things should cause alarm in Harker, yet he continues on with his task

Bridging East and West: When we first meet Dracula, he motions Harker into his castle, speaking “excellent English, but with a strange intonation” (Stoker 22). Dracula desires to become a part of English culture and society so thoroughly that he will be able to blend into society, a feat that Harker helps him accomplish. Dracula desires this because he wants to live in and infect Britain. This terrifying image strikes at the heart of an anxiety of Victorian Britain. Up until the late middle of

Dracula Throughout the nineteenth century, women were often supposed to be seen rather than heard. The new emerging woman who was outspoken, overly sexual and educated was often looked down upon and seen as a lower class of society. Stoker uses Dracula’s three sisters to associate lust and sex with the vile and evil of the new woman. Stoker uses a provocative and seductive tone and diction to express the new hyper-sexual woman. His diction is very detailed in describing the sexual actions of the

In this passage of Dracula, Stoker uses important diction and imagery to portray the image of Lucy. The character Lucy had died a while back, however she is found to be alive again after obviously dying. Written in Seward’s perspective, Lucy coming back alive goes against logical thinking that Seward and most people cannot comprehend. Lucy’s appearance is described through various literary devices. The use of literary devices such as imagery and diction contrast each other to signify the changes

English 303B 13 July 2016 Quiz 2 on Dracula One of the most important elements in Dracula is imagery, and I believe Bram Stroker uses sleeping to show weakness in his characters and to develop a sense of danger. Uniquely, in the Victorian age, people believed a person’s mind was only healthy when they were asleep, and their bodies were safer when awake. Of course, this goes hand in hand with the story so far in Dracula, because the majority of the danger in Dracula takes place at nighttime when people

such a complex story under the constraints of such a short film.     I believe my experience to be very typical of someone who has never watched a full-length silent film, I was gripped with curiosity on how this film would tell the great story of Dracula without the stereotypical screams and jump scares that horror movies today bring to the screen. I feel like the film did a fantastic job of telling the story with the limitations of being able to use sound. I will be very interested in watching another