The Perversion Of Christian Elements In Dracula By Bram Stoker

In our lives, as in literature, Christian symbols have great meaning. In the novel ‘Dracula’, the author Bram Stoker shows that Count Dracula perverts elements of Christian tradition. To pervert something is when you turn right to wrong. Throughout the book, the use of setting, symbols, and specific events effectively displays Dracula’s perversion of Christian tradition. The setting in the novel contributes to how Dracula’s perversion of Christian elements is significant. Referring to the novel Jonathan Harker stayed at a hotel and everyone there was warning him that at midnight it would be St. George’s Day, the night where evil is the strongest. He insisted that he would go to Dracula’s castle; the innkeeper gives him a crucifix. This shows the perversion of Christian elements because the innkeeper gave Jonathan a crucifix to protect him. Dracula is evil and if something didn’t have to crucifix to protect him Dracula would have turned him into a vampire too. Christian elements burn Dracula because he is so evil; this shows how Dracula perverted Christian Symbols through setting.
Referring to the novel, Dracula bites Lucy and drinks her blood so that he can live. Dracula is a vampire and he perverts one of the Christian Traditions which is Holy Communion. Most Christians believe that they are granted spiritual life because by drinking the wine it’s a symbolic element of the blood of Jesus. The author shows that Dracula drinks human’s blood to keep his physical life. Dracula perverts Christian tradition because he drinks human’s blood and they die and become evil like him. In Christian tradition blood is the symbol of life because Christ died so we could live and go to heaven. Therefore in the novel Count Dracula uses blood as a symbol to pervert Christian