Category: Dracula

Introduction to Sexuality in “Dracula” In Bram Stoker’s Dracula a prominent theme is sexuality. I believe that this theme is buried throughout the whole novel with it being symbolised in many different quotes and actions of different characters. In my Dracula essay, I will demonstrate how this theme is intricately threaded into the narrative. The…

Bram Stokers novel, Dracula, continues in the same way as Carmilla  a novel shows the power and the sexuality of a vampire. Vampires were created to invoke horror and terror because of its power to allure and provoke ones repressed desires (Hasanat Lecture 2). Stoker creates a story that represents many of the issues…

However, a mere simulacrum’s ability to divulge insatiable desire foreshadows the power of the unfamiliar to eradicate virtue, implying Ambrosio is dissatisfied, desperately seeking the untainted woman. Ambrosios fragile humanity is implicitly threatening- animalistic imagery used later in the novel depicting his demise, like Dracula, exaggerating his fall, likened to an archetypal Gothic creature, acting…

A continuous theme in Dracula is marriage and the gaining of status following it, starting with letters between Mina and Lucy. Their correspondence takes the reader back to the novels starting moment, giving us another angle into the lives of these characters, then tangled together with the main Gothic storyline through the plots development (McCrea…

In the 1872 novella Carmilla and the 1897 novel Dracula, both Le Fanu and Stoker bestow the treatment of women as a catalyst for exposing the dangers of gender stereotypes, to illuminate social concerns and injustices for the reader that were occurring at the time in Victorian. These injustices are mirrored in the above statement.…

Dracula (1897), by Bram Stoker, is set in the Victorian Era and follows the story of the vampire Count Dracula and his battle with a determined group of adversaries. Stokers novel reflects the fears and anxieties of the late-Victorian society, where the change or disruption of traditional Victorian values and anything that did not stay…

Dracula (1897) written by Bram Stoker, is a Gothic novel composed in England in its late Victorian age. Its engaging use of invasion literature exposed the oppressiveness in this society and to a transitional period, specifically involving the evolution of the New Woman and fear of the other, its unfolding narrative reflected the fears and…

On one hand, Bram Stokers Dracula features a villainous vampire who wishes to impose his demonic way of living on the people of England. Before setting foot in London, he researches Englands language, culture, and geography and while in London, he converts the locals into beings like himself. On the other hand, while entering Draculas…

During the late Victorian Era, Britain experienced a controversial period of development where new technology and science threatened the religious beliefs of society. Bram Stokers gothic novel of Dracula (1897) addresses the fears and anxieties brought about by modernisation and highlights the clash between old and new beliefs and values. Stoker incorporates a variation of…

Following its publication in Lippincotts Magazine in 1890, Oscar Wildes novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, was widely criticised for its focus on the sensual and passion driven behaviours of its main character. Wildes novel is classed as a gothic novel as it features common devices of the genre. We can also draw similarities and…