Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dracula, and Beowulf has very impactful villain that effect the other character in the story. Their actions causes the protagonist to stand up act against them. But what make the villain well, a villain or the antagonist of the story? The book I mention about is give you some information about villain. Let get our mind thinking about what type of villain are there what’s make a villain well the bad guy of the story? Let’s talk about the book of Dracula. In the book Dracula made by Bram Stoker the main antagonist is well Dracula. Huh the title of the book is the antagonist of the story? Yes that is right but what type of villain can consider Dracula? The type of villain Dracula are goals that Dracula want achieve and …show more content…
There was hints that Dracula won’t let Johnathan leave until Johnathan teach him proper English. There were hints of this were Johnathan discover three beautiful women’s was about to bit his neck until Dracula interfered and argue with the ladies in page 42 of Dracula by Bram stoker Dracula say “ well, now I promise you that when I am done with him you shall kiss him at your will. Now go! Go! I must awaken him, there is work to be done.” This pretty much mean that until Johnathan finish helping him with his English then he find Jonathan not useful anymore and not care what happen to him afterwards. Another prove that Dracula just use people to get some progress on his main goal. Also when Johnathan escape form example is in chapter in chapter 13 where Johnathan escape Dracula castle and reunited with his finance’s mina heading to the London station. Johnathan saw count Dracula and was frighten to see Dracula. In chapter 13 Dracula by Bram stoker Johnathan saying “I believe it is the count, but he has grown young. My God, if this be …show more content…
But there was a news that in chapter 14 of Dracula by Bram Stocker van Helsing say” you think then that those so small holes in the children’s throats were made by the same that made the hole in miss Lucy.” Van Helsing was the person that discover find out about Lucy. In chapter 14 – 16 were Vel Helsing was convincing other major character Quincey and Arthur that Lucy was a vampire. When they discover her well find her they notice something wat difference about her. In pages 226 Dracula by bran stoker it has a description of Lucy “the sweetness was turned to adamantine, heartless cruelty, and the purity to voluptuous.” Lucy was no a vampire and was connected to Dracula since she was doing similar thing a vampire will do. In the event of these all happening it’s all connected to Dracula so way or form. Dracula just do what a vampire do suck people blood, coldhearted, and just want to achieve his goals want I said in the beginning of the topic. Enough of Dracula let’s talk about the book Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. The villain in this book was Mr. Hyde but, what type of villain is he? The type of villain Hyde is inner personally evil. Have you heard about nature and nurture in class or in somebody conversation? Let’s get to the definition of these two words. Nature is every human being born to have a good side and an evil side which great example for Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. And then
The novel Dracula by Bram Stoker has plentiful examples of key concepts we have examined in class including: Purity and impurity, magical thinking, strong emotions such as disgust and shame, , formalization, and myth. In this essay I will summarize events that take place within the novel when the protagonists deal with Dracula and then relate these events to the key concepts to demonstrate why the characters view him as dangerous, and therefore something to be avoided completely.
This fictional character was soon to be famous, and modified for years to come into movie characters or even into cereal commercials. But the original will never be forgotten: a story of a group of friends all with the same mission, to destroy Dracula. The Count has scared many people, from critics to mere children, but if one reads between the lines, Stoker’s true message can be revealed. His personal experiences and the time period in which he lived, influenced him to write Dracula in which he communicated the universal truth that good always prevails over evil. Religion was a big part of people’s lives back in Stoker’s time.
Florescu, Radu R., and McNally, Raymond T., Dracula, Prince of Many Faces: His Life and Times (1989)
The diary entries or notes used in ‘Dracula’ are fragmented and have an epistolary structure ‘Jonathon Harker’s Journal’. This emphasises each of the character’s feelings of isolation and loneliness, adding to the appeal of the reader. During the entries, Stok...
As a matter of a fact, when Lucy dies, the men feel great distress and have nowhere else to turn but to Mina. In order not to show weakness in front of the other men, the Englishmen each individually “express [their] feelings on the tender or emotional side,” and confess their anguish for Lucy’s passing (Stoker). To the men, Lucy was only a companion whom they barely knew, but to Mina, Lucy was a lifelong friend. Mina’s loss of Lucy was profound, however, she held her emotions in check and through strength and perseverance she never shed a tear. Moreover, Mina is often portrayed as stronger physically than Jonathan when Dracula emits his wrath upon them. Even though Mina is the one suffering, Jonathan cannot physically handle Dracula’s wrath as he turns “white as death, and shook and shivered,” even though he has yet to sacrifice anything and Mina has sacrificed almost everything and continues to persevere (Stoker). Jonathan’s signs of aging signify that even though Jonathan is a man and supposed to be strong, the stress and anguish derived from the events lately has taken a physical toll on him. However, Mina is the one directly affected by Dracula and aside from the effects of Dracula’s hypnotic spell, Mina was portrayed as happy and youthful. Last but not least, Catherine Eckel, a member of the National Science Foundation and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, conducted a study involving
To begin, the author incorporates the act of Religion to parish off the malicious Dracula. When Jonathan Harker is shaving, Dracula emerges behind him without seeing his reflection in Jonathan 's mirror. stunned, Jonathan ends up cutting his face. Dracula replies: “When the Count saw my face, his eyes blazed with a sort of demoniac fury, and he suddenly made a grab at my throat. I drew
The late nineteenth century Irish novelist, Bram Stoker is most famous for creating Dracula, one of the most popular and well-known vampire stories ever written. Dracula is a gothic, “horror novel about a vampire named Count Dracula who is looking to move from his native country of Transylvania to England” (Shmoop Editorial Team). Unbeknownst of Dracula’s plans, Jonathan Harker, a young English lawyer, traveled to Castle Dracula to help the count with his plans and talk to him about all his options. At first Jonathan was surprised by the Count’s knowledge, politeness, and overall hospitality. However, the longer Jonathan remained in the castle the more uneasy and suspicious he became as he began to realize just how strange and different Dracula was. As the story unfolded, Jonathan realized he is not just a guest, but a prisoner as well. The horror in the novel not only focuses on the “vampiric nature” (Soyokaze), but also on the fear and threat of female sexual expression and aggression in such a conservative Victorian society.
In Bram Stoker's "Dracula", Dracula is portrayed as a monster made evident by his gruesome actions. An analysis of Dracula shows that: shows his evil nature in his planning, brutally killing Lucy Westrenstra causing a violent response from Dr. Seward and others, and how his evil ways lead to his downfall. To characterize Dracula in one way, he is a ruthless, cunning monster who uses tricks, torture, and wits to manipulate people to his will. However when he trifled with some courageous people, he had no knowledge that it would be his undoing.
Even though he was technically the villain, I challenged myself to analyze Dracula as the hero in the story. If it weren't for Dracula, vampires wouldn't be so popular in pop culture today. There are a lot of vampire characters that speak on how much of an impact Dracula had on culture (Melton 303). Bram Stoker took the legend of Vlad Tepes and used it as an idea for Dracula. He was the ruler of an old country called Wallachia.
This begins with Jonathan Harker's journal, in which he records his adventures in the Carpathians. This is important, because his journal is an important clue in finally determining what exactly is happening. His fiancé, and later wife, Mina transcribes the journal, and then shows it to Dr. Van Helsing, a noted physician, attorney, philosopher, and metaphysicist. Through the journal, Van Helsing is able to determine what exactly happened to Lucy, who earlier in the novel was a victim of The Count. The phonographic journal of Dr. Seward was useful in observing Mr. Renfield, also a victim of Dracula, who the protagonists used in order to locate The Count's London abode.
His main victims, Lucy and Mina, are the best examples of how he expresses these desires. Lucy Westenra is the first victim and the first point of emphasis for Dracula's desire to create in the novel. Once Dracula arrives in Whitby a mysteriousness comes about Lucy. She is sleep walking and seems like she has someplace to go or someone to get to. Mina observes this unusual sleepwalking “Strangely enough, Lucy did not wake; but she got up twice and dressed herself” (Stoker 74). The notion of sleepwalking describes the fact that Dracula is somehow trying to draw Lucy to give in and execute his creative desires. Eventually, Lucy escapes from her room, not seen by Mina and is later found in the middle of a graveyard. This is where Dracula executes his desires and makes Lucy his victim: “There was undoubtedly something, long and black, bending over the half-reclining white figure….I could see a white face and red, gleaming eyes” (79). This mysterious figure is Dracula and his making of vampire Lucy was marked with two hole punctures in her neck. These punctures are made from a bite. This action of biting someone's neck is both aggressive and sexual. A pleasure spot on a human beings body is the neck, it is sensitive to the touch of fingers/lips. It is an arousal technique and it just so happens that this is the common method for Dracula to create his vampires. This is a direct evidence to the unleashing of Dracula`s sexual repressions. Dracula’s desire to create and releasing of sexual repressions is also evident when he victimizes Mina. After Lucy’s death, Dracula goes after Mina and the first major event evident to this is when he makes her drink his blood through his chest. “Her white nightdress was smeared with blood, and a thin stream trickled down the man’s bare breast which was shown by his torn open dress” (242). The notion of blood and Mina being victimized by having to suck
Dracula’s peculiar actions begin when Johnathan Harker takes a Journey to help Dracula with some business. When Harker was getting
Dracula continuously takes her blood, her life force. The reduced exposure to the “East” results in Lucy getting better. In the end she is infected by vampirism which is the personification of the East. The infection is finalized with her “death.” Her physical transformation matches Dracula, she is pale and there is an emphasis on the appearance of her teeth.
The Count is the benchmark of the vampire archetype as the monstrous Other that “announces itself as the place of corruption” (Anolik and Howard 1). Dracula is associated with disruption and transgression of accepted limits—a monstrosity of great evil that serves to guarantee the existence of good (Punter and Byron 231). The “Otherness” Dracula possess reinforces our own norms and beliefs through his transgression that separates him from society and the polarity to Western norms and ideals makes him an effective device for extorting revulsion and horror. Stoker’s novel employs Gothic tradition, providing “the principle embodiments and evocations of cultural anxieties” from which the very Gothic mood and horror is produced, establishing the baseline used to distinguish the modern vampires, as part of vampire mythology within the Gothic (Botting Aftergothic
Dracula is a vampire who has been alive for hundreds of years that keeps himself alive by sucking blood from live victims. The character was made by the author Bram Stoker in the novel Dracula. In the novel, Dracula is of course the bad vampire person who would stop at nothing to be with Mina, a woman, who looks like his dead wife. The protagonist is a young man from England, Jonathan Harker, who is engaged to Mina he is sent to Transylvania to finalize the deal in England to Count Dracula. Once Jonathan learns about what is going on, he and his five friends try to bring an end to Dracula.