Category: Dracula

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…

My comprehension about Mary Shelley, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Bram Stoker, is that they are all around creators of renowned books, for example, Robert’s well known novel ‘Fortune Island’, Bram Stoker’s epic ‘Dracula’, in like way, Mary Shelley’s story ‘Frankenstein’. These creators all lived amidst the times of the late, late 1800’s. They were all…

This essay aims to argue in favour of the category of Irish Gothic with reference to Bram Stokers Dracula and a film directed by Neil Jordan entitled The Butcher Boy. The themes of paranoia, Protestantism, anti-Catholicism and the desire or fear of the Other are typical of the reoccurring motifs found in Gothic literature generally…

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…

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…

Dracula, a novel by Bram Stroker, is currently still known for being one of the most successful novels in literary history. No other novels have been subjected to the popularity of transforming into a movie as much as Dracula (1897). The book Dracula has been made into various film productions that remain to serve justice…

Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone. Compare and contrast the presentation of Frankensteins monster and Dracula as outcasts in society in light of this statement. In Mary Shelleys Frankenstein (1818) and Bram Stokers Dracula (1897), Frankensteins creature and Dracula are both presented as…