Van Helsing

novel, Dracula written by Bram Stoker, Dr. Abraham Van Helsing is a Dutch professor from Amsterdam. The novel emphasizes the power of religion against a greater evil. Count Dracula is the devil-like figure in contrast, Van Helsing is the God-like figure. Van Helsing is a well-suited opponent against Count Dracula since he is the only person that has that understands Dracula’s true nature. He is a godly, intelligent and witty character. Van Helsing is a God-like figure that has to rise against evil

Once again, the reader is faced with the fact the Van Helsing is hiding the truth. In a way, he’s mirroring some behaviors of Dracula. Van Helsing is being sneaky, secretive, and mysterious. For instance in the beginning of Chapter Thirteen, he tells Dr. Seward “I want to operate [on Lucy], but not as you think,”(Stoker p. 197). As a reader I know why he is infatuated with Lucy, to a degree, but the other characters do not. This creates a problem for Dr. Seward because he cannot piece together why

Hello everyone, I believe there is a very important parallel in the story between Van Helsing and Dracula; uniquely, they are both foreigners and main characters. Out of all the main characters, they are the only true foreigners in the story, and it seems as though Van Helsing and Dracula are tied together. However, both of these characters’ act entirely different; Van Helsing is always his own unique self and does not feel the need to change who he is or how he acts, while Dracula changes many

but underneath all that charm he holds a really dark and evil tint about him. Then you have a Dutch professor and one of the most abnormal and advanced scientists in this novel Van Helsing. In a face off constant battle of cat and mouse becomes a major difference in the two characters. Compared we see the wits of Van Helsing come into play versus the brute strength showed by Dracula; coming down to who is going to give up first in this battle between the Undead and the brave scientists. Some might

Dracula: The Secret Identity of Van Helsing In Bram Stoker's 1879 novel, Dracula, after the vampire, Count Dracula, runs loose in the streets of London our main characters Jonathan and Mina Harker, Dr. Seward, and Lucy Westenra team up to free themselves from his reign of terror.In the midst of their struggle, Dr. Seward calls upon a former professor of his for help, a mysterious Dr. Abraham Van Helsing. Throughout the novel Dr.Van Helsing has been described as an older, dutch man who is incredibly

Stoker’s enigmatic Van Helsing burst onto the literary scene in with the publication of Dracula in 1897 and has since been glorified as a near God to Dracula’s Satanic counterpart. Dracula is a heavy hitting novel which asks the central characters, or “Crew of Light” as they’ve come to be called, to examine their views on religion, superstition, science, and the once impossible grasp of immortality in order to defeat the infamous Count. Luckily for them, the answers to these questions come in the

novel, Dracula written by Bram Stoker, Dr. Abraham Van Helsing is a Dutch professor from Amsterdam. The novel emphasizes power of religion against a greater evil. Count Dracula is the devil-like figure in contrast Van Helsing is the God-like figure. Van Helsing is a well-suited opponent against Count Dracula since he is the only person that has that understands Dracula’s true nature. He is a godly, intelligent and witty character. Van Helsing is a God-like figure that has to rise against evil to

Van Helsing is the main character against Dracula in Bram Stoker's novel, Dracula. He is a very intelligent and passionate scientist. He is very knowledgable, and communicates with the other characters well. He is the main force that drives the plot in the story. Van Helsing is an important character because he is the main protagonist in the fight against the antagonist, Dracula. Van Helsing is a strong built man with a very intelligent mind. He is of medium weight with a strong build, clean shaven

Bram Stoker’s context and his interest in controversial ideas. Use ‘Dracula’ and ‘Van Helsing’ to demonstrate what concepts and concerns have endured and how they have been represented in both texts. JUSTIN LIANG Dracula ( novel) written by Bram stoker is a text which reflects its English Victorian era context, where gender roles were repressed and science and religion had a conflicting relationship. Van Helsing (Stephen Summers) is a contemporary reproduction which demonstrates the same concepts

identical in their means of doing. Professor Van Helsing and Count Dracula were the main identities in Stoker’s Dracula because they both represented areas of strict morals such as good and evil, respectively. Although the two men present rather general characteristics of their due morals, Stoker also gave subtle commonalities to them. Although Dracula happens to be the evil of the story, it can also be presumed that he may be the good while Van Helsing is the bad. Even though Stoker indicates that