Van Helsing

Dracula Bram Stoker wrote 12 novels, including Dracula and The Jewel of Seven Stars, and also published collections of short stories. Dracula was originally titled The Undead. As Dracula says: “My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.” To date, more than 1000 novels and 200 films have been made about the vampire Dracula. Stoker, who had been an occasional freelance contributor to The Daily Telegraph in the 1890s, began working regularly for the paper as part

Carlos Dena Honors English 11 5/20/13 Critical Analysis on Dracula With several illicit subjects listed throughout Bram Stoker’s Dracula, the book becomes a playground for psychoanalysts. Whether it be to see a subjects as simple as the conscious take over a character, or a character’s surroundings corrupting its victims, Dracula intrigues in more ways than just its vampiristic features. The following is a psychoanalytic study with a focus on vampirism imitating sexual practice and drug usage today

Courtroom Case: Phyllis A. Roth The author, Phyllis A. Roth, is not your ordinary feminist, because she is also a Freudian. A better term to describe Roth would be a psychoanalytic feminist. One of her works as an author can be found in the back of the book Dracula: A Norton Critical Edition. Her criticism article is titled Suddenly Sexual Woman in Bram Stoker’s Dracula. In her article she analyzes the famous novel Dracula. She explores how gender plays a role in the novel and the concept of femininity

Femininity Vs. Masculinity Vincent D’Onofrio said “To me the definition of true masculinity and femininity, too – is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.” In other words, male can’t be too masculine and female can be too feminine, but both qualities can show though any human because of how we act and our emotions. In Bram Stoker, Dracula, each character faces difficult obstacles between the lines of being all man or facing the structures of being a woman. With the help of two critical

John Seward is one of Lucy’s three suitors. He owns and runs a mental hospital where he is the doctor at. Dr. Abraham Van Helsing is Dr. Sward’s friend and mentor. He is a scientist and doctor who is well versed in ancient superstitions and philosophy. He is the one who discovers that there is a vampire in England. Arthur Holmwood is the son of Lord Godalming and another one

and Dr. Van Helsing aiding Lucy Westerna and Mina Harper. Of the two physicians however, Seward comes to illustrate the failings of

Evil never conquers because good always overcomes it. A good example of this is the book Dracula by Bram Stoker because the author expresses the nature of good vs. evil. Dracula wants to come to London because he wants to turn everyone into vampires. The basic background of the book Dracula is when Jonathan Harker, a realtor who is sent to Transylvania to complete a transaction with Dracula so he can come to England. What Harker does not know is that Dracula has a plan for world domination. Well

of life. Dracula was as evil as a creature could become and was atrocious in the eyes of the Christian religion. He was a symbol of the Anti-Christ and Satan and the fact that holy items harmed Dracula meant he was pure evil. In the end, Harker, Van Helsing, Mina, and the love interests of Mina’s friend, Lucy Westenra (Quincey Morris, Jack Seward, and Arthur Holmwood) fought against Dracula to prevent his evil. The main weapons used against Dracula were sacred utensils. Their struggle was the battle

The Vampire What boundaries does the Vampire threaten? Written by Amanda Turner Discuss possible answers to this question with reference to at least two critical or theoretical essays and at least two tellings ' of the Dracula story._______________________________________________ The Vampire in Dracula threatens the very existence of Victorian England. Stoker constructs the vampire as an embodiment of threat by surpassing his Gothic novelist predecessors to bring

her own and that of a males. She is highly spoken of by Van Helsing, “She is one of God's women, fashioned by His own hand to show us men and other women that there is a heaven where we can enter, and that its light can be here on earth. So true, so sweet, so noble, so little an egoist – and that, let me tell you, is much in this age, so sceptical and selfish” (168-169). Meeting Jonathan Harker (Mina’s husband) for the first time, Van Helsing describes Mina being very clever yet passive; Mina may