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Bram Stoker Bram Stoker unleashed his horrific creation on an unsuspecting world over one hundred years ago. One could hardly imagine that his creature of the night would delight and inhabit the nightmares of every generation between his and ours. Count Dracula has become an icon of evil, and is perhaps the most widely recognized bogeyman in all of world literature. To date, there have been over one hundred films made about Dracula or other assorted vampires, not to mention countless novels

The two pieces of art I have drawn symbolizes some of the decisive 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

Coppola's film Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992) is arguably the best visual retelling of the infamous novel Dracula by Bram Stoker. The film brings Stoker's characters to life with strong visuals and an enriched story exploring the origins of Dracula and his journey through this vampiric tragedy. The trail Dracula leaves behind is traced with blood, in typical vampire fashion. As a symbol of transformation, many characters' lives change throughout the novel all in the presence of blood. Like many great

Bram Stoker: An Irish author born in the late nineteenth century who changed the face of Gothic literature forever. Bram Stoker published more than a dozen novels during his career, but oddly enough, most of his life remains a mystery. Majority of biographers rely heavily on public records to determine the interests and life of Bram Stoker. Stoker’s grandnephew, Daniel Farson, once stated, “Stoker has long remained one of the least known authors of one of the best-known books ever written.” (“Bram

Bram Stoker: The Founder of Horror The horror and supernatural events that surround modern culture today through literature, films, and holidays can almost always be attributed to Bram Stoker. His most well known novel, Dracula, focuses on the vicious side of human nature, the dramatic side of realism, and the dark side of female sexuality, which was never written about during the Victorian Era. It was also analyzed and critiqued by many because of the controversial topics presented in Stoker’s

The book Dracula written by Bram Stoker is about a Jonathan one of the main characters in the book. Jonathan Harker is a young English lawyer, who has traveled to see a castle. Little did he know, that trip to the castle was going to open many secrets. This story is written from a narrative point of view. The book contains dairy entries which are written by the characters in the book. Other important characters are Mina Murray who is introduced as the fiancé o Johnathan Harker eventually they get

Bram Stoker's Symbolic Dracula Dracula, is most likely one of the most iconic monsters of the twentieth century, mostly as a blood sucking creature that prowls the night looking his next victim. Nevertheless there is a much deeper more hidden mysterious series of symbols hidden behind the story of Bram Stoker's Dracula. Bram Stoker was a Irish immigrant to london who was fascinated by new technology and science but heavily concerned with the jewish population arriving where he was and across

In 1897, Bram Stoker took a risk in writing Dracula and become one of the most acclaimed and well-known authors in history. Stoker’s leap of faith help to lead to a whole new genre. Dracula was one of the first horror stories to ever be published. Another way that Stoker chose to be unique is the way that he wrote the stories in first-person journal entries which help the reader to better understand each character and their

Sexuality in Bram Stoker 's DraculaBram Stoker 's Dracula, favorably received by critics upon publication in 1897, entertained its Victorian audience with unspeakable horrors such as vampires invading bedrooms to prey on beautiful maidens under the guise of night. The novel 's eroticism proved even more unspeakable. Received in the era of repression, it remains questionable whether Dracula 's readership perceived the sexuality flowing from the page. An advocate for the censorship of sexual material

go into the description, and characterization of said vampires being quite limited. There would only be so many possibilities for scenes, situations, and character designs if authors went by nothing more than the characteristics of the vampires in Bram Stoker 's Dracula. Because of this, authors continue to create more and more ridiculous scenarios as well as more and more advanced vampires. The comparison of the way vampires look, respond to environmental stimuli, and act in social situations in