Novel dracula

The novel “Dracula” was written by Irish author Bram Stocker in 1897. It started the new epoch of horror novels, and was the first representative of the vampire literature genre. Even now, a century after being published, this novel is able to startle and able to thrill its readers. Based on the vampire legends, folklore, Gothic fiction and history (Johnson, 2010), the story which is told depicts not only the episode of an English solicitor’s clerk Jonathan Harker’s lifeline written in his diary

I'm not myself you see.” Renfield, in Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula, is a character who is not himself for the most part of the book. He affects the reader’s perception of character, the plot, and the story’s mood by enhancing the gothic elements and horror of the novel through his insane tendencies, his allowance of Dracula to get to Mina, and the overall grotesque way in which his body is described. Stoker included Renfield to compare Dracula with a human with the same tendencies. His mental illness

​Bram Stoker, author of Dracula, not only creates the early depiction of vampire stories; but writes more to contradict the age old beliefs of women and their role in society. Dracula is more that just a vampire story. There is a deeper level to this. A level in which it can incite change in the way one percieves women. There is a noition that all women were to be the same but Dracula refutes that. Vampire sexuality, as represented in Bram Stoker 's Dracula, reveals itself as both a phenomenon that

Paternalism in Bram Stoker's Dracula      Paternalism is the domination of a society by a male or parental figure that leads or governs much like the way a father would direct his family.  In Victorian society, the idea of paternalism was prevalent.  The idea was also frequently used as a motif in western literature.  Bram Stoker's novel Dracula, published in 1897, depicts a paternalistic society through a repression of the female sex and a continuous exaltation of the domineering male

For my Dracula project I made a gothic style picture frame. The way I made my project was by taking an old picture frame, taking it apart and then putting a layer of clay over the frame to give it a more gothic look. I then carved some simple designs into the clay so it would resemble a gothic frame from the time period of Dracula even more. Every thing was then spray painted with black because most gothic frames i could find were black, after the paint dried I went back and added some color using

wrote his famous novel, Dracula he makes sure to include many different characteristics of gothic literature. Three important motifs that are stated in Dracula which also fit into the gothic literature category would be; blood, dreaming or nightmares, and superstition. This particular novel has many gothic motifs, but these are three that I believe really stand out. The word blood is not used in the novel until a few chapters in, but is a major motif. Blood symbolizes life in Dracula, because in every

independent, and expresses sexual indulgence (Stoker 445). Role of women Mina character based on the Victorian era and the challenges faced by the Dracula to be new women in Bram Stoker’s Dracula.

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

Stoker creates a well written novel that engages the reader. He designs this novel to contain several techniques which bring character and originality to his writing. Bram Stoker refers to an abnormal character appearance in his work to convey his messages in a mysterious manner to the readers. Meanwhile, Stoker properly establishes the mythology of vampires to help readers appreciate, interpret and analyze the elements of vampirism more efficiently. Stoker writes his novel in such away that he can tie

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