Category: Dracula

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 which was written by Bram Stoker in 1897, is known and considered as the origin and birthplace of vampires. The horror classic, Dracula has been adapted book-to-screen since the day it was written. But this Dracula essay example will be mainly about Bram Stoker’s Dracula directed by Francis Ford Coppola in 1992. Coppola’s version…

The empowerment of women has been problematic within male-dominated societies throughout history, leaving women oppressed and bound by rigid social expectations. Whilst Stoker fails to challenge this confinement in Dracula, Carter opts to demonstrate the power of female sexual expression in The Bloody Chamber. In Dracula, Stoker presents the New Woman as a threat that…

The various representations of vampires that have been imagined throughout the history of Gothic fiction have developed considerably over time, to a point where one could argue that the vampires depicted in Postmodern Gothic texts are a virtually unrecognizable incarnation of their Victorian Gothic counterparts. Though vampires from both eras tend to share the same…

Marxism is a method of socioeconomic analysis that uses a materialist explanation of historical development, better known as historical materialism, to understand class relations and social conflict as well as a dialectical perspective to view social transformation. It originates from the works of 19th-century German philosophers Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. Marxism is presented throughout…

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…