Analysis Of Dracula

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In novels, it is not uncommon for characters to be identified as morally ambiguous. It can be extremely difficult to identify a character as purely evil or purely good. In the novel Dracula, Bram Stoker presents a morally ambiguous title character, Dracula. Dracula can be seen as evil by the obvious: he is a vampire that bites people to get their blood. But on the other hand, Dracula can also be seen as good. Dracula is not purposely trying to kill people, he is just trying to protect himself. Lots of people believe that they can understand and analyze other people and try to come up with conclusions on how that person is, but Stoker shows how in some cases, analyzing a person cannot easily be done. Most people are not black and white. Their
“‘We have learnt-much! Notwithstanding his brave words, he fears us; he hear time, he fear want! For if not, why he hurry so? His very tone betray him, or my ears deceive” (333). Dracula could have attacked the men quite easily, but instead, he chose to run away from them. Dracula’s actions show that he is not out to hurt the men. Dracula is susceptible to death and does not want to attack the men when he does not have to.Dracula may have attacked Mina and Lucy because he thought he was helping them escape the Victorian society. Living a life as a woman in a Victorian Society is no life at all. The women in England must abide by the men and keep to themselves or else they were deemed whorish and impure. .The men in England can live great lives and prosper in society, while the women have a tough time doing that without a man by her side.In Transylvania, life was not like that for women. So it is understandable that Dracula would go after the women and not the men. Dracula was trying to help the women and free them from society. He is saving the women, not hurting them. His actions are in fact rather good because he is saving the people who really do need
Seward, and Jonathan Harker. Which means, everything known about Dracula could be false because their letters and journal entries are not factual. They are extremely biased. This could lead to readers getting an inaccurate picture of Dracula since readers only ever see Dracula’s actions as horrible and vicious. He could be very friendly and have only the best intentions, but readers would not be able to recognize that because the description of him is skewed. Even though Dracula has committed some crimes, that does not make him evil. Some of the best superheroes have killed innocent people, but that does not make them evil. For example, In Spiderman, Gwen Stacy was falling to her death and so he tried to stop her from falling but the when he attached his web to her neck the backlash snapped her neck and she died. This could be a similar case in Dracula. Dracula is just trying to help Lucy but it backlashes on him and she ends up dying, even though he was trying to help her. Everyone makes mistakes in their life. Those decisions are not enough to generalize a whole person’s character. Dracula’s intentions could have been good, he could have just went about them in a way that maybe did not look so

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