dependent of their husbands to provide for them. This novel portrays that completely in accordance to Mina Harker, but Lucy Westenra is the complete opposite. Lucy parades around in just her demeanor as a promiscuous and sexual person. While Mina only cares about learning new things in order to assist her soon-to-be husband Jonathan Harker. Lucy and Mina both become victims of vampirism in the novel. Mina is fortunate but Lucy is not. Overall, the assumption of women as the weaker specimen is greatly
sinist... ... middle of paper ... ... writing it, but his accurate and detailed memory of each mysterious sound, temperature and smell of the journey illustrates how deeply he must have been affected by events. His devotion to his dear fiancée Mina, a quintessential Victorian woman embodying all the morals and ideals of the age (purity, obedience to males, respect, politeness) is presented as a beautiful and mutual love, pure and enduring; a complete contrast to the erotic imagery used to
Bram Stoker’s Dracula Lords of the darkness, Darkling Dancers, Nosferatu, Vrikolakas. And the list goes on like this. The vampire concept is thought by the most to be a myth that has crept into almost every culture. It has influenced many writers to write novels on them and many directors to shoot films on. Vampire myths go back way into the times of first recorded history. Many different legends are known about them varying from the Chinese belief of the glowing red eyed monsters with green or
Dracula, by Bram Stoker, is a classic tale of Gothicism. Traditionally, gothic tales only carried single theme of horror. Through Dracula, Stoker breaks this single theme barrier. The theme throughout Dracula is clearly displayed through the characters as they step from ignorance to realization in this tale of horror. The theme of ignorance is vital for this story. It is woven throughout and evident in all the characters. It is first displayed through the protagonist, John Harker. It is his innate
The most apparent difference between Dracula and Nosferatu is that one was made while film was still without sound-at least dialogue-and the other was not. This difference, though not a revelation in itself, leads to a great number of much more in-depth contrasts that deserve discussion. In making a silent film, a director must rely on sight-and a certain amount of text-to portray to the audience his intended emotional, and intellectual reaction. As a result of this, the director is not able to go
doing it because they want to see the Dracula get defeated and help save everyone that he has endangered. The main good characters in this book are Dr. Van Helsing, Jonathan Harker, Mina Murray and Lucy Westerna. What makes Jonathan Harker so good is that he will do almost anything to help stop Dracula. He is Mina Murray’s fiancée and a solicitor who became a prisoner of Dracula but finally ...
Contemporary history, in the case of England and Ireland, insinuates that conflict is a primary mediator between two countries. With this in mind, outlining the relationship between England and Ireland is simplified. The relationship between these two countries becomes more of struggle between dominance and submission. Hyper-exaggeration would make it appear that England had intentionally colonized Ireland with the intent of ruining their culture. Bram Stoker’s Dracula looks at these three events
The concerns of Victorian England about the status of faith and manhood have left a deep mark in the literature of the period. The Picture of Dorian Gray and Dracula are good examples of this concern. In both books there is an emphasis in the corruption of the body and of the soul as maladies that haunt the greatness of England. The aristocracy is pointed as the social strata from where this decadence will spread. These books show a population of youth that lacks the guidance of parents and are
of women in Dracula, but Stroker puts them in several types of specific ways. I believe that Stoker puts the very few women of Dracula in the Madonna and Whore situation. Mina, who is a shy and soft spoken type of girl. She spends days and nights waiting to hear what's happening with her love Jonathon. The fact that Mina is so pure, it's supposed to be the total opposite to what Dracula bride's said at the beginning of the book, who try ruin Harkers plan of saving himself for marriage. The
Bella Swan’s tale of turning into a vampire is her tale of initiation and becoming a female subject framed with postfeminist politics in Twilight series. Her process of individuation is contains a series of steps taken by her one by one throughout the series. Each book of the series indicates different stages of Bella’s individuation process from different aspects as represented by the titles of the books. This process is based on postfeminist choice politics that foregrounds female desire and transformation
characters view him as dangerous, and therefore something to be avoided completely. The first and foremost example of danger is with purity, impurity, and magical thinking. Before interacting with Dracula, Lucy is described as physically attractive by Mina in her journal entries, stating “Lucy met me at the station looking sweeter and lovelier
Mina Murray was engaged to Jonathan Harker and when Dracula kept him prisoner, the Count wrote letters to Harker’s boss and pretended to be Jonathan and to inform his boss and his fiancé that things were going good with his business trip. The Count was giving Mina and Jonathan’s boss false hope and keeping Harker prisoner at his castle. Dracula would even dress up in Harker’s clothes
” (Stoker 44). Although it seems Dracula is trying to be good in saving him, he is just stopping the three female vampires so that he can have Mr. Harker all to himself. So, even though he was almost being “kissed” by the vampires, he overcomes it. Mina, on the other hand, does unwillingly become a vampire; however; even though she tried as
The novel Dracula is a novel that is made up of various sounds. The sounds may vary, but they are common in their unfamiliarity. Such as the foreign slang of Quincy Morris that captivates Lucy or the alarming barking of the dog during the funeral of the sea captain. The influence that Dracula has over others through sound is seen repeatedly throughout the novel. He achieves this with the supernatural usage of technology, such as the creation of living mediums. Whether it be a human or animal his
In the story “Dracula”, composed by Bram Stoker, the literature of psychology is well presented. “Dracula” was composed in 1897, the time in which psychology was first being introduced. The novel “Dracula” was written into an epistolary formation known as a series of letters, newspaper clippings, and diary entries. Jonathan Harker, a young lawyer, travels to Transylvania to presume a real estate transaction with the Count Dracula. Amongst his arrival he suspects peculiar activities occurring. Bram
The Monster (Missing) in the Mirror – Positioning the Reader/Viewer of Dracula in the Lacanian Mirror. The representation of monsters in mirrors has a venerable history, stretching back into antiquity with the legend of Medusa. In this myth, the hero, Perseus, uses the goddess Athena’s bronze shield to perceive the Gorgon as a reflection, allowing him to decapitate her and avoid being petrified by her unmediated gaze. The fable enacts the desire to gaze on the spectacle of the monstrous other even
Everyone has heard of vampires, from the award winning novels and movies Twilight to TV shows such as The Vampire Diaries, Vampires have become a worldwide phenomenon. These books, movies and TV shows have come a long way from the “original vampire” Bram Stocker’s Dracula. Written in 1897, Dracula quickly gained popularity and later became a classic. While some may believe that Bram Stoker would be devastated by the portrayal of sparling vampires that restrain from human blood, both Dracula and modern
While thought of as an improvement to human society, science also makes humans more close-minded. In Bram Stoker’s Dracula, technology plays an important role in the Victorian society. There are trains, phonographs, typewriters, and telegraphs. Trains are the main use of travel and telegraphs allow the characters to send each other short messages. In fact, the story itself has diary entries made by Mina’s typewriter or Dr. Seward’s phonograph that records his voice in wax cylinders. Also, the new
of the outside manifests in Dracula, while the protectors of Victorian values become the crew of light. When Dracula preys upon Mrs. Mina Harker, he is defiling the valued Victorian morals, and is manifesting the threat of the outsider. According the Van Helsing, Mina Harker is a light in the darkness, thus a symbol of Victorian purity and goodness. However, when Mina is attacked by the outsider Dracula on her marriage bed, she is corrupted by the
One of the best things about Dracula is the way the author, Bram Stoker, can set up any kind of atmosphere in order to make the readers feel anyway he wants them to. There are countless parts in this book where Stoker makes the readers feel horrified, creeped out, and even have mixed emotions about certain characters. The first place where Stoker sets up a chilling atmosphere is when Harker first gets to Dracula’s castle. Harker gets dropped off at the castle in the dark and is outside all alone