Though Count Dracula is a fictional character, Stoker based his most famous character an infamous 15 century family. ... The Prince also had a reputation for murdering beggars, forcing women to eat their children and nailing the turbans of disrespectful ambassadors to their heads (Voller, The Literary Gothic). ... Allusions from the previous literary works, The Picture of Dorrian Grey and Beowulf are found through out the novel. ... Jonathon Harker, one of the main characters of the novel, Travels to Castle Dracula in order to finalize a real-estate transaction. ... The character...

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The discord between religious ideals and sin are paralleled through these texts, and attest to Christianity's influence in the literary Gothic. ... It is therefore unsurprising that the Coleridge poems, Dracula and The Bloody Chamber all display this theme, a breach of the character's moral and pious integrity in their desperation to satisfy their curiosity. In Stoker's novel, temptation is issued from the prurient and lascivious female characters. ... The temptation of protagonists is similarly presented in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, where the characters are enticed by ni...

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An example of this in the text Dracula is expressed through the character of Lucy. ... Stoker and Rice have, in their novels, taken on specific points of view to portray their characters and events. Each has a different literary effect on the audience, and heavily influences their portrayal of vampirism, in way of the old' and new' styles. ... His portrayal of Dracula as a character is greatly that of the elusive, stealthy and seductive being distanced from direct contact to the audience. This is perhaps a device influenced by societal ideals of the nineteenth century, the noti...

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Bram Stoker was born in Dublin, Ireland on November 8th, 1847. His father was a civil servant in Dublin Castle, and his mother, Charlotte, was a women's lib advocate. They had seven children in nine years; the third of which was Bram. The first seven years of his life he was bedridden with an undiag...

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The Life of Vlad Tepes, otherwise known as Vlad Dracula, is a life shrouded in mystery and terror. Dracula was born in 1431 in Transylvania; a western Romanian principality bordered by the Carpathian Mountains. His mother, the Princess Cneajna, schooled young Vlad. His father, Vlad II was given the title of Dracul by King Sigismond of Hungary. The name Dracul means "dragon" and was awarded to his father for his valor in defending the Catholic Church against the onslaught of the Ottoman Turks during the fall of Constantinople. ...

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