The Power Of Power In Bram Stoker's Dracula

A. AGFS: Do you believe the power of any emotion can drive a person to do the impossible?

A. Bram Stoker’s Dracula has many themes in it, more specifically, power is a main theme in the gothic novel.

B. All the characters are controlled by a certain emotion and use that particular emotion to defeat Dracula.

1. When Jonathan first discovers Dracula’s true nature, he is teeming with fear, as do many of the characters they encounter the true Dracula.

2.

1. After Lucy’s death the remaining characters feel various powerful kinds of emotions that help with avenging her death.

2. Before her death, Lucy was Mina’s best friend

3. Dr. Seward, Quincey Morris, and Arthur Holmwood are all suitors of Lucy crave to attack Dracula.

4. Dr. Van Helsing loathes

The three men who proposed to Lucy are battling Dracula because of their love for her.

2. The reader sees the emotions that run rampant when Mina, Jonathan, Arthur Holmwood, Dr. Seward, Dr. Van Helsing, and Quincey Morris find that Lucy is truly dead.

C. The love the characters experience is the main component to Dracula’s downfall.

1. Mina’s devotion to Jonathan helps her against Dracula’s forbidding prowess.

2. Arthur announces that he and Lucy shared blood, so they are married.

1. Arthur vows to cleanse the world of Dracula’s damned presence.

3. Arthur unknowingly reveals that Lucy was married to three other men because of the transfusion.

4. On account of the transfusion, the other three men can say they are avenging their wife as well.

IV. BP3/Topic Sentence: Dr. Van Helsing uses his power of compassion to help the unfortunate victims of Dracula.

A. Dr. Van Helsing is first introduced when Lucy becomes ill.

1. Dr. Van Helsing is sympathetic to Lucy’s plight.

2. His knowledge on vampires helps end Lucy’s suffering.

B. Dr. Van Helsing is the caretaker of the lost souls.

1. Van Helsing guides Arthur through killing Lucy

2. When Van Helsing stakes the three women in Count Dracula’s castle, he almost succumbs to their seductive prowess, but he remembers Mina, who is infected with Dracula’s

Van Helsing has knowledge on how to defeat Dracula, even with his nefarious powers.

E. The remaining characters have good intentions toward each other.

2. Mina and the other men either have dinner, or the men have drinks together which is still forming a bond through communion.

VI. BP6/Topic Sentence: Another crucial theme in Dracula is Religion or the power of Christ, which is mixed with science, and the reliance the characters have on the two things to kill Dracula and save them from his deviant thrall.

A. It could be said the power of Christ was the most vital theme in Dracula.

2. When Jonathan first arrives in Transylvania, one lady in particular worries for him and gives him her cross. This exhibits the power of religion in the novel.

B. To be “clean” or “pure” was the most important to those of the 18th century.

2. Understandably, Mina is frightened with the implications of being unable to be blessed with the Sacred Wafer.

C. Van Helsing presents the scientific side when he brings forth garlic for Lucy to wear around her neck.

1. Moreover, when he introduces blood transfusion, and without using Arthur in some cases he is leaving behind religion in a sense, and turning to science for