Carlos Dena Honors English 11 5/20/13 Critical Analysis on Dracula With several illicit subjects listed throughout Bram Stoker’s Dracula‚ the book becomes a playground for psychoanalysts. Whether it be to see a subjects as simple as the conscious take over a character‚ or a character’s surroundings corrupting its victims‚ Dracula intrigues in more ways than just its vampiristic features. The following is a psychoanalytic study with a focus on vampirism imitating sexual practice and drug usage today
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Bram Stoker’s Dracula was written just before the turn of the 19th century; the beginning of this new era threatened a conservative‚ unchanging culture‚ and had people of all classes and religions in England on edge. Social fears such as the fall of the British Empire‚ the beginning of a new movement that would become what we now know as feminism‚ and changes in gender roles‚ gripped the nation. It is interesting the note that this not too dissimilar to the fear that gripped the world of the ‘millennium
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idea that a woman’s sole purpose and duty in life is to be obedient and compliant to her husband. It was believed that “New Women” who stepped out of the ideal Victorian role were whores‚ unfit mothers and brides‚ and would ultimately cause chaos. In Bram Stoker’s‚ Dracula‚ Lucy and the three seductive vampires serve as women who step out of their Victorian role and are in turn punished for their actions. From the beginning of the novel‚ Lucy had already started to secretly think and step away from
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Amanda R. Wright Religion 101 12/12/04 Prof. Nichols Final Paper Many people are familiar with the novel Dracula‚ by Bram Stoker. It is typically referred to as a horror story sure to give a good scare. However‚ Bram Stoker was not merely out to give his Victorian audience a thrill ride. Many symbols and themes‚ particularly those of the main antagonist Dracula‚ were brought into the novel to teach a lesson. Oddly enough‚ Dracula resembles other forces of evil in other religions as well
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like Dracula. Literary terms convey the writers’ message in a simple manner to the readers. In Brian Stokers Dracula‚ the use of literary elements help the reader better understand the story. Dracula has many gothic elements throughout the story which can better help the reader. The author Brian Stoker says in the book Transylvania is nothing like England when Jonathan is on is way there. Brian Stoker gives Transylvania a dark gothic view to make sure the reader can know the setting of the place and
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Dracula” by Bram Stocker is one of the most famous horror novels in literature history all over the world. This well –known work of art was insight into the mind of many reader generations . Therefore‚ it took for granted that they impressed character Count Dracula on the memory through the attractive written pages of author. Indeed‚ among some first chapters of this novel ‚ no chapter can show the image of Dracula which was potrayed obivously by the trenchant characterization penmanship of Stoker than
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the guests and children. Stoker used Dracula as a median to express his opinions towards on the subject. Stoker‚ like many other males of his day accepted this role of women‚ and was not open to the idea of women changing their roles. Women were starting to make their own decisions‚ and were starting to hold jobs and positions of authority. Bram Stoker himself grew up in a feminist household‚ but soon changed his beliefs‚ as he grew older. Dracula is a sexist novel. Stoker‚ a sexist‚ was conservative
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Comparison and Contrast of Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Polidori’s The Vampyre While Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Polidori’s The Vampyre share some minor details‚ mostly regarding the basics of vampires and the location and date in which the stories take place‚ the majority of the stories differ greatly. The Vampyre was published almost a hundred years earlier‚ so it is easy to see how some details of that story can be seen in Dracula. Bram Stoker no doubt must have used The Vampyre as an influence
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Bram Stoker’s Dracula: Anti-Christian 1.) There are many ways that Bram Stoker’s Dracula can be considered Anti- Christian by showing of Anti-Christian values and perversions of the Christian religion. In chapter one as Jonathan Harker is traveling to Castle Dracula he is met by several people. When he meets these people and tells them where he is going they cross themselves along with doing several other superstiscious actions. One of the women he meets gives him a crucifix to protect him
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a society‚ people think and behave according to basic economic factors. These factors are derived from the dominant class imposing their beliefs on the lower classes in order to make them conform to the standards and beliefs of the dominant class. Bram Stoker’s novel‚ ’Dracula’ represents a class struggle not between the bourgeois society and the proletariat society where the proletariats would attempt to rise up and overthrow the bourgeoisie‚ but rather between the capitalist bourgeois and the character
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