Dracula Good + Evil
Dracula
Write an essay on the representation of the themes of Good and Evil in Bram Stoker 's Dracula.
Dracula is a story about the perennial battle between good and evil involving Dracula as the antagonist. This war dates back as far as God versus the Devil or the Wicked Witch of the West and the Good Witch in Oz. It is black and white, right? But wait, wasn’t it God who drowned the entire human population at one point and killed every Egyptian firstborn son at another. Was Lucifer a revolutionary who spoke out against dictatorship and was cast down to Hell for it? The Wicked Witch’s name already spells out how we should view her but is it not well within her rights to inherit her dead sister’s shoes? Instead we see them on the feet of her murderer, does that make her Wicked? Why does The “Good” Witch leave out the fact the shoes are magic until after she allows the innocent Dorothy carry out the deed of murdering her rival? The maxim goes “There are two sides to every story” and I have to whole-heartedly agree with it. No human being is wholly good and neither are they completely evil. In this essay, I will examine the themes of good and evil and attempt to change the way you view Dracula, its characters and plot.
Stoker introduces us to his characters through cleverly used diary and log entries allowing us to see their thoughts and feelings. So as we read through the novel we can track all of the characters and create a unique bond with them individually to the extent that we are willing them to avoid death. When I say all the characters I am mistaken of course, the eponymous character Dracula does not have the liberty of providing us with a diary. Why do you think this is the case? Why would Stoker name his novel “Dracula” and yet fail to provide him with a personal voice to the reader? Personally I feel this was a ploy in order to underpin the fact that Dracula is evil to the core. Had we been able to read Dracula’s thoughts and gain an insight into
Write an essay on the representation of the themes of Good and Evil in Bram Stoker 's Dracula.
Dracula is a story about the perennial battle between good and evil involving Dracula as the antagonist. This war dates back as far as God versus the Devil or the Wicked Witch of the West and the Good Witch in Oz. It is black and white, right? But wait, wasn’t it God who drowned the entire human population at one point and killed every Egyptian firstborn son at another. Was Lucifer a revolutionary who spoke out against dictatorship and was cast down to Hell for it? The Wicked Witch’s name already spells out how we should view her but is it not well within her rights to inherit her dead sister’s shoes? Instead we see them on the feet of her murderer, does that make her Wicked? Why does The “Good” Witch leave out the fact the shoes are magic until after she allows the innocent Dorothy carry out the deed of murdering her rival? The maxim goes “There are two sides to every story” and I have to whole-heartedly agree with it. No human being is wholly good and neither are they completely evil. In this essay, I will examine the themes of good and evil and attempt to change the way you view Dracula, its characters and plot.
Stoker introduces us to his characters through cleverly used diary and log entries allowing us to see their thoughts and feelings. So as we read through the novel we can track all of the characters and create a unique bond with them individually to the extent that we are willing them to avoid death. When I say all the characters I am mistaken of course, the eponymous character Dracula does not have the liberty of providing us with a diary. Why do you think this is the case? Why would Stoker name his novel “Dracula” and yet fail to provide him with a personal voice to the reader? Personally I feel this was a ploy in order to underpin the fact that Dracula is evil to the core. Had we been able to read Dracula’s thoughts and gain an insight into
Bibliography: "A Wilde Desire Took Me": The Homoerotic History of Dracula" by Talia Schaffer http://www.jstor.org/stable/view/2873274?seq=1