Count Dracula

Bram Stoker uses characterization to convey the idea that experiencing imprisonment creates the sense of fear and helplessness in his novel Dracula. Characterization includes the use of the character's speech, thoughts, actions, looks, and effect on others to provide a description of the character. In beginning, the diary starts off with the narrator noticing the imprisonment, afterward the narrator immediately check “every door and peering out of every window” in attempt to escape the environment

kindness. Count Dracula was overall an evil entity that sucked blood out of humans and slept in wooden boxes of Transylvanian dirt. Now that’s evil. Mina and her group tried defeating Dracula, and were successful. The novel clearly shows a profound truth about the struggle between good and evil with the use of all the different symbols and characters. First off, Dracula is the epitome of evil. He may have some goodness very much deep inside his soul. The absolute first evil action that Dracula performed

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. Letters, diary entries, and newspaper clippings from the viewpoint

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 in the story, there

Dracula: The Victorian Vampire When you think of Dracula, do you think of the bloodstained creature or the sophisticated stalker of the night that symbolizes the Victorian era? Dracula was a gothic novel heavily influenced by the folklore of vampires of the past and Vlad the Impaler, a strict ruler of Wallachia, leading to Dracula’s cruel mannerisms. Another large contributor to Dracula was also the stern Victorian era standards, the era in which Bram Stoker composed the classic. Therefore, the

Written in 1897, Dracula touches upon themes relating to both female repression and the poverty prominent in Victorian England. Both Marxist and feminist interpretations are useful to understanding the novel, as they mutually present the Count as a symbol of oppression and hierarchy. The notions of oppression and hierarchy is clearly presented in the language Stoker has Dracula use: he speaks almost exclusively in imperatives to wield his power, peppering his dialogue with words such as “come”,

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, comic books, nonfiction works, toys, clubs and societies—even a children’s breakfast cereal celebrating the myth of the undead count. Dracula’s notoriety is of such epic proportions that it has

In Transylvania, Dracula reflects the superstitious nature of the local people. He also highlights their religious behavior and their care towards tradition and heritage. This can be seen when the locals give Jonathan Harker the crucifix and other religious objects. The belief system the locals hold lead them to believe that those things will help protect him, this ties in with their traditions because the behaviors appear to be deeply ingrained into them, likely since Dracula first became a vampire

Foreshadowing, Mood, Mythical Parallels, and Narrative Elements in Dracula       In the novel Dracula, by Bram Stoker, there is much evidence of foreshadowing and parallels to other myths.  Dracula was not the first story featuring a vampire myth, nor was it the last.  Some would even argue that it was not the best.  However, it was the most original, using foreshadowing and mood to create horrific imagery, mythical parallels to draw upon a source of superstition, and original narrative elements

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