Van Helsing

The novel Dracula by Bram Stoker is seen to be a part of feminist literature. Stoker’s story tells the tale of multiple characters, through Jonathan and his ordeal at Transylvania where he first encounters Dracula. He meets Dracula to buy him a new estate in England. However, when he stays at the castle, he realizes something wrong with Dracula. Stoker laters shifts the novel to Mina and Lucy’s perspective, writing to each other about light-hearted things. However, it takes a turn for the worst as

John Sullivan Fall 2017 Interpretation of Literature The Difference between Good and Bad With every birth comes a death. With every protagonist comes an antagonist; and with every good comes an evil. For years story tellers have used the simple concept of good beats bad in their stories. Protagonists and antagonists often represent the good and evil sides of the plot; with good prevailing over evil almost every time. This trend continues and is present throughout all of Bram Stoker’s Dracula,

boat in his voyage to Transylvania, Arthur has telegrams sent to him daily to keep tabs on its whereabouts. Telegrams were also sent between Lucy’s suitors so that Van Helsing can use them for blood transfusions. The transfusions are also modern technology; with them they were able to prolong the life of Lucy long enough so that Van Helsing could connect the dots. The use of modern technologies was crucial to successfully hunting the Count. Without the modern construct of social class the group wouldn’t

Nevertheless, Lucy still expresses outlandish ideas that are viewed as highly ignominious. Furthermore, Lucy actually takes action on these thoughts. Due to the continuous vampire bites from Dracula, Lucy receives blood transfusions from John Seward, Van Helsing, and Arthur Holmwood. It is a common analysis that in the novel, a vampire bite and blood transfusions both symbolize sexual intercourse due to the exchange of bodily fluids. For example, after Lucy dies, Arthur tells the other men: “Then this so

Comparison and Contrast of Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Polidori’s The Vampyre While Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Polidori’s The Vampyre share some minor details, mostly regarding the basics of vampires and the location and date in which the stories take place, the majority of the stories differ greatly. The Vampyre was published almost a hundred years earlier, so it is easy to see how some details of that story can be seen in Dracula. Bram Stoker no doubt must have used The Vampyre as an influence

Vlad thinks that Mina is the reincarnation of his wife. He goes to England with the box on the boat and leaves Jonathan with female monster. When he arrive in England, he rapes and bites Lucy. Lucy is Mina’s friend and now, she becomes a vampire. Van Helsing and his group kill Lucy at the night. Vlad meets with Mina and spends lots of time with her. Mina seem to remember her past. Jonathan

Van Helsing thinks highly of her and sees her as a creature of God. This hints that Dracula, being a devil, is drawn to her for her innocence and her power to withstand temptations. Dracula wants all the power he can get and by dominating Mina’s strength to

The old vampire trend, so very 2000s or so very 1890s? In 1897, Bram Stoker took central European folk tales and turned them into one of the most famous horror books of all time. Stoker 's Dracula isn 't young and sparkly-hot; he 's creepy, old, and likes turning into bats and clouds of mist. Just like today, vampires in 1897 stood in for a lot of contemporary fears and anxieties. This is a novel that took a pretty obscure folk tale creep and skyrocketed him into fame and everlasting pop-cultural

Ever since Bram Stoker wrote his entrancing novel people have been adapting it, and the story is one of the most reproduced ideas in history. Each innovation of the novel influences the story for the creators own purpose, and in doing so generates another version of Dracula. Count Dracula has become an infamous character in history, and has been captured in many different mediums, such as the Japanese anime and manga series Vampire Hunter D, which follows Draculas son D in his adventures (Kikuchi)

Jonathan Harker. Throughout the novel, Mina is depicted as the ideal Victorian woman. Take what Dr. Van Helsing says of Mina in chapter fourteen, 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… (Stoker 2002: 198) Here, Van Helsing describes Mina as in possessions of such virtue that she is the epitome of what God intends women