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Ever since its publication in 1897, Bram Stoker’s Dracula has been the base for countless movies and films. Although each one differs slightly, the initial idea is the same in most, with Dracula displayed as the mysteriously cunning antagonist of the plot. While this is an undoubtedly adequate view for some, others prefer to perceive the infamous vampire as the protagonist, leaving the title of antagonist to the supposed heroes of the story: Mina and Jonathan Harker, Dr. Van Helsing and Co. Ultimately

Dracula written by Bram Stoker was one of the few very few novels I read that contain a lot of suspense. This novel is typically the book I would avoid because I do not like novels that contain violence. Despite reading this book out of my comfort zone I actually enjoyed reading it more than I thought I would. One thing I liked about the novel was how each Stoker wrote the book as journals or diaries from each character, which was very neat. I also liked that each journal and diary had a date, it

Abraham “Bram” Stoker was born in Clontarf, Ireland on November 8th, in the year 1847. He had a rough start to life, being rendered bedridden until the age of seven from an unspecified illness. He was very weak as a kid and seldom left his house during childhood. These isolated years he was kept entertained by his mother and the stories she told him. He took particular interest in the tales she shared with him on the 1832 cholera epidemic, a widespread terror that claimed the lives of thousands

While thought of as an improvement to human society, science also makes humans more close-minded. In Bram Stoker’s Dracula, technology plays an important role in the Victorian society. For example, there are trains, phonographs, typewriters, and telegraphs. Trains are the main use of travel and telegraphs allow the characters to send each other short messages. In fact, the story itself has diary entries made by Mina’s typewriter or Dr. Seward’s phonograph that records his voice in wax cylinders.

this fear- an immortal creature that feeds on the blood of the innocent. As dangerous as they are, vampires are alluring- they possess an “aura of glamour”. Vampires have long crept into our imaginations from the lusty romance novel, “Twilight” to Bram Stokers’ “Dracula”. While most people tend to believe that all vampires come from Transylvania, are slender, and can transform into bats, Stoker did not create the vampire. Vampires existed long before except they were revenants; animated corpses of

Developing the inside versus outside tensions between England and Eastern Europe, Bram Stoker challenges Victorian social norms. This tension is particularly evident when understanding the spread of vampirism to be an invasion of England. Although this invasion is fantastical and not realistic, its targets the legitimate Victorian fear of invasion. As an island nation close to other significant European powers, England was able to escape many years of land invasions, but always had to remain wary

Both written and set in the late 19th century, Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula is one of the most pivotal books in horror literature and has since been the forerunner to most, if not all, kinds of vampire fiction. While it is apparent that there are strong themes revolving around the idea of female sexuality in Dracula, whilst being set in an anti-feministic climate as the Victorian era, the addition of vampires has taken it in something of a different direction to the already-standing topic of female

in an effort to try to interpret how Bram Stoker used each character to illustrate his views on religion and society at the time. I concluded that through Mina’s character, Stoker was neither condemning nor promoting the expectations of the Victorian Era but instead he used Mina to exploit the expectations of that time period. In this paper, I will explore the different facets of Mina’s character and illustrate how her role as the only female protagonist in Bram Stoker’s Dracula is just as essential

‘Dracula’, written by Irish author Bram Stocker, is part of the Gothic fiction genre, which explores the disintegration of scientific understanding, control and social order. The villain in the book has supernatural powers which challenge science as one way of understanding the world. Count Dracula is defeated by the heroes, joining modern science with understanding of vampire legends, which brings back order to society. Dracula, the main villain, is a centuries-old vampire who has enormous physical

BRAM STOKER’S DRACULA Bram Stoker’s gothic horror novel, Dracula, is a piece of literature that has cultivated a genre of storytelling and writing. Stoker’s novel, published in 1897, follows the story of a party of friends united to end the tyranny of the vampire, Count Dracula. Set in England and Transylvania in the late 1890’s, the novel has been a popular discussion topic by both critics and lovers of the book. The novel, with its use of different styles, was written to give multiple points of