Dracula

information and old European folktales to create famous Gothic novels like Dracula; Before writing Dracula, he studied for eight years stories of vampires. The title of Stoker’s story has historical significance to Vlad Dracul the 3rd, a Wallachian ruler who impaled his victims on stakes. Bram Stoker also was influenced by his lifetime, before the publication of Dracula, Gothic and Epistolary novels were on the rise hence why Dracula is classified as both. Stoker’s life as a Victorian can be seen in his

Stoker, the author of the 1897 Gothic Horror novel Dracula, and ended up filing for bankruptcy after only distributing one film. While this may seem like an immense failure for the studio behind the silent film, it ended up influencing almost a century of vampires, in novels, television, and other films, and made the name ‘Nosferatu’ synonymous with the equally influential novel that it was based upon. On the surface, Nosferatu is a blatant copy of Dracula, from it’s plot, to the characters (besides the

In Bram Stoker’s Dracula, there is a plethora of ways the novel can be critically analyzed, but there’s one theory in particular that I found the most interesting to apply. I used the theory of deconstructuralism to critically analyze Dracula, and to help break down the story into particular meanings and themes that can contradict the typical perceptions and first impressions of the novel. To better help complement my analysis, I read and analyzed another popular article by John Paul Riquelme, titled

reading the book or seeing the movie made from it? Dracula is a signet classic novel written by Bram Stoker. This novel is portrayed by an antagonist character known as Count Dracula. He has been dead for centuries yet he may never die. He has a peculiar power of hypnotic fascination but he is weak in god’s daylight. He is immortal as long as he is able to drink blood from the living. He can change his form into a wolf, a bat or a puff of smoke. Dracula get in touch with Jonathan Harker through a real

The Gothic horror novel Dracula by Bram Stoker introduced a new literary taste in the Victorian era, one that tends to be one of the most-read literary genres to this age. The novel excavates several themes like role of women in the Victorian society, immigration, sexual conventions, colonization and post-colonialism. Dracula has been a subject to major literary criticism upon its release and its controversial portrayals tend to be a part of modern literary discussion as well. The novel received

COUNT DRACULA FREEDOM FROM FANDOM is a light-hearted fantasy tale that brings to life the iconic characters from many novels and films about Dracula and the other monsters. There’s no doubt that the strength of this script is the ensemble cast of colorful and offbeat characters, especially Dracula, Frankenstein, and Wolfie. Together they feel like iconic, authentic friends and it’s fun to watch them interact with each other. However, with that said, the overall script would benefit from more

The famous novel "Dracula" written by Irish writer Bram Stoker in the late XIX century still dominates the minds and imaginations of millions of readers around the world. This book is not the first story to be written about vampires, but it has become a classic of the genre, its standard and was the cause of the world obsession with "vampire" theme. "Ugly" and terrible desire frightens the modern reader. Wide public interest in horror literature says that the ugly aesthetics became a kind of symbol

across the nations as “property”. They claim that women are weak and stupid; therefore, men treat women as if they are higher than women. Bram Stoker’s Dracula conveys the reality of Victorian, and today’s society’s prejudice toward the values of women by acknowledging only a woman’s wrongs, and how “New Women” overcomes it. For example, in Dracula, Bram Stoker is aware of the stereotypes in the Victorian era; he decides to make two different aspirations and social life of the Victorian era. Stereotypes

And again, before we delve into the novel, it is important to establish some historical context of Stoker's own struggle with homosexuality. Stoker is himself, a hidden homosexual. Dracula is written a month after Stoker’s longtime partner, Oscar Wilde, is imprisoned for his homosexuality. Watching his friend go through trial “must have caused many of the internally conflicting emotions which led Stoker to personally view (and portray)

Hidden in Bram Stoker’s Dracula contains abundant amounts of allusions and social commentaries. These rhetorical devices help connect the reader to the experience of the novel and allow them to have a more in depth understanding of the characters, and usage of religious allusions abets the reader in achieving that goal. In the worldwide masterpiece Dracula, Stoker uses religious, mythical, and archetypical allusions to depict Dracula as a peculiar and distinct creature as well as providing social