Role Of Nature In Dracula

In this essay, I would like to expose myself to the question how the non-human agency of a bat can be reflected through Bram Stoker's novel Dracula? Furthermore, does nature exist in any prediscursive form prior to its marking by human culture?

In Stoker’s Dracula a big bat flaps and buffets its wings against the window of Lucy Westerna frightening her out of her wits. In this novel bats can be seen as representing the uncanny and mysterious of nature; and moreover, as we humans are part of nature as well, the uncanny and the appearing of anything unidentifiable in us and that we cannot understand. To claim that we humans are independent of nature is an illusion. What is of importance in the novel is to recognize the interdependence between