The Tomb of Dracula

you watch from the side before you take action against this threat to our very survival? No longer should any of you do such a thing. We all ought to rise up together and defeat this monster. For our children, I say we must do something. Count Dracula runs amok in our town. Unless we join together to defeat this common enemy of ours, our town will fall, our memory forgotten to the rest of the world. For how long can you sit and wait, believing that you will not be harmed by the count? You, and

Title: Dracula: Stoker 's Response to the New Woman Author(s): Carol A. Senf Publication Details: Victorian Studies 26.1 (Autumn 1982): p33-49. Source: Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism. Ed. Jessica Bomarito and Russel Whitaker. Vol. 156. Detroit: Gale, 2006. From Literature Resource Center. Document Type: Critical essay Full Text: COPYRIGHT 2006 Gale, COPYRIGHT 2007 Gale, Cengage Learning Full Text:  [(essay date autumn 1982) In the following essay, Senf contends that, contrary

relationship that exists between gender, sexuality and sexual practice is one that is not static, but is ever changing and shifting dependent upon the society in which it exists (Brickell, 2007). This essay aims to describe how Bram Stoker’s 1897 novel, Dracula, presents a “characteristic, if hyperbolic, instance of Victorian anxiety over the potential fluidity of gender roles” (Craft, 111-112), whilst also inverting and subverting conventional Victorian gender patterns through the characterisation and portrayal

we're doin', and death be all that we can rightly depend on” (73). Dracula, written by Bram Stoker, involves a small crusade to exterminate the threat of vampires, along with Dracula, the master. Throughout the book, Dracula is a cause for many of the problems, as his sins spread and cause other sins. The sins that are the foundation for the levels of Hell are represented through the negative actions of the characters in Dracula. Dracula represents the sin of Lust early in the novel. Jonathan Harker

vampire and gothic literature as a whole grew and can be viewed as a commentary on the period of time in which it was written. The strong image of the vampire is a strong metaphor for communicating the zeitgeist of the time. By analysing Bram Stoker’s, Dracula (1897) and Sheridan Le Fanu’s, Carmilla (1872), as both novels are very important as they both helped mainstream vampire literature and created characters that have remained popular for over a century. An examination into these texts and the significance

dated back to ancient Egyptian culture when mummifying was done to preserve the bodies of the dead. Pharos and Egyptian royalty were mummified and barred in tombs, often with their servant and items and their fortune. Could it be the possibility that because the concept of a mummy is an actual part of culture verse other monsters like Dracula and Frankenstein that have no ancient origins other than myths that makes it less desirable? The character it’s self is a huge success, but the films often fall

mysterious supernatural force representing the barbaric East. In the novel, the gothic figure – The Beetle - performs her mesmeric power over British citizens in her plan to seek revenge from Paul Lessingham for the destruction of a historic and “sacred tomb in Egypt”. Although it is not specified in what ways, the priestess takes her revenge by violating the human body of females and males alike. The invasion by “the Oriental” represents the personification of the Victorian fear of “the foreigner” – different

In Dracula, Stoker portrays male characters believing that women are not as capable or intelligent as men through multiple occasions. For instance, when Mina first arrived at Dr. Seward was conversing with Van Helsing shortly after, Van Helsing responded by saying, "Ah, that wonderful Madam Mina! She has man's brain--a brain that a man should have were he much gifted--and a woman's heart.” Van Helsing is implying that a man’s brain is greater than a woman’s brain. He is also saying that all men are

expected the house to be crumbling away piece by piece but it ended up getting large cracks, and was settling from the uneven ground in a few parts of the movie. Roderick did have the white hair, but wasn’t web-like and his looks were more of the Dracula-style. His facial structure looked, his approach on certain things were harsh, he didn’t like bright light, his hearing was acute, his taste had failed him, he eventually buries his sister alive indicating that he is possibly at least a bit heartless

Vampires Obsession. A persistent, disturbing preoccupation with an often-unreasonable idea, feeling, object or person; broadly: compelling motivation (Collegiate Dictionary). Many stories have been told of obsessed men and women who waste their lives on lost causes, calling them tragedies. But what if you were immortal? What if you were forever? Then your life would not be wasted, but instead a reason for living would become instinctive. And what if having an obsession, something criticized by