The main setting in the novel, Castle Dracula is castle located in the most remote location possible, requiring a special carriage to visit, this creates an isolated setting, which adds to the already dreadful atmosphere created by the novel. Another key property which makes Dracula a Gothic novel is the supernatural elements that it contains. These elements are fundamental to the Gothic novel, even if they are explained in more scientific ways later in the story. ... The lack of the voice of Dracula, the antagonist of the novel, arguably the most important character, creates a sense of dislo...

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Bram Stoker was one of the first great authors that truly knew how to write a classic novel. Through many years almost one hundred and fifty to be almost exact the test of time truly showed that this novel is a classic. Its uses of all the elements to make this novel one of the greats. ... The characters in this novel are each of a very educated back round and all with a different type of personality that has intrigued readers around the world of decades. ... Over all Dracula was by far one of the best novels I have ever read.I would recommend this novel to anyone of any age group. ...

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Because both novels do not depict very violent or gory scenes but yet we still find them quite horrifying and I believe the explanation for this is because there is a lack of humanity within the two novels. ... Throughout the novel the protagonists are constantly performing selfless deeds. ... Both the novels are put into the category of gothic novel. This means the novels do not totally rely on the loss of humanity within the novels to frighten the reader. ... It's very hard to learn about the character of Count Dracula because in the novel he does not keep a journal or log book unlike t...

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"The difference between Mina and the vampire women in the novel is a sexual difference." ... Women and their sexuality is a major theme presented in the novel "Dracula". ... Marjorie Howes, the critic claimed; "the novel is preoccupied with gender roles." ... In the novel, Stoker presents female sexuality as monstrous and corrupt. ... Feminists reading the novel now may believe a better ending for Mina would be that she becomes a New Woman with freedom, especially since the novel was written at a time when such ideas were being introduced to society. ...

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Elements of homosexuality also lace the novel. ... Rice greatly strived to take a different stance to Stoker's novel. ... Stoker and Rice have, in their novels, taken on specific points of view to portray their characters and events. ... Indeed, both novels portray very different presentations. However, in terms of viewing these novels as Gothic' texts relating to vampirism they illustrate remarkably similar features. ...

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Evil - Dracula as the Anti- Christ In every novel, there is always two sides- good and evil and they are always fighting one another to achieve dominance. ... During the time Bram Stoker , the author write Dracula the theme of good vs evil was very prevalent and a theatre critic he knew that a successful novel should included good vs evil and challenging views. ... The novel portrays anti-Christian values and beliefs, though one of the characters Dracula one of the main characters in the novel is used to take on the characteristics of the anti-Christ. ... One superstition is that a r...

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The film is inspired by the original Bram Stoker novel, "Dracula-. The novel gets right into the story and starts with Jonathon Harker already on his way to the Counts dwellings. ... The imagery used leading up to this is that of dread and throughout the novel, the notion that Dracula is monstrous and evil is held and it is clearly good versus evil. ... When the Count finds Mina in the novel she is terrified of him because of what he had done to Lucy. ... But the Mina in the movie does not share the disgust of Bran Stokers novel Mina. ...

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Count Dracula has many similarities to Jesus Christ throughout Bram Stoker's novel Dracula. ... In this novel, you find similarities in the way they die, what happens when they die, and how others know them. ... In the novel Dracula there is no solid proof that Dracula ever existed because we never see him. Jonathan explains this in his note at the end of the novel, " In all the mass of material of which the record is composed, there is hardly one authentic document: nothing but a mass of typewriting" (Stoker 400). ... These similarities between Dracula and Jesus Christ are present in thi...

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As a gothic novel, Dracula reveals a fixation not just on horror but also with folk legend. ... The Dracula family, which the Count describes with much pride in the early chapters of the novel, is historical, and its most famous member. ... Despite the novel's age, Stoker's novel still manages to have the same spine tingling effects as current work by masters like Stephen King. ...

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In this classic novel the gothic theme of good versus evil plays a major role. As a reader, one can decipher the difference between the humane and inhumane characteristics of the characters in this novel. ... At one point in the novel, against their knowledge, Dracula targets the one that they love the most, Mina, so that in some way it may halt their search for him. ... For example, in the novel Jonathan cuts himself while shaving and Dracula leaps at his throat. ... In this novel, the battle of good versus evil is expressed in a very direct way and there is never a question of who is rig...

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Bram Stoker did not write the first vampire novel in English, only the most enduring (Bloom, 6). ... 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. ... Over two hundred "Dracula- films have been shot, thousands of novels and short stories written, and countless references made. ... Even though the novel follows a ghastly storyline, there are many lessons to be learned from t...

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Dracula is written in first person like many other novels but then it differs slightly. ... In conclusion, Bram Stoker's Dracula turned out to be a very exciting and fascinating novel. ... Dracula is a clever, exciting, and suspenseful novel that uses a villain to terrify you but forces you to read more. ...

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The novel, Dracula, written by Bram Stoker in 1897 uses controversial issues he lived through such as sexual fantasies, abnormal gore and violence, and the idea of the vampire to catch his readers" attention. ... "Stoker wrote about fantasies like sex and suggestive situations even though he lived in a very conservative time period, and yet people showed great interest in his morbid novel" (Fisher 64). ... "Hearing about sexual desires makes people more comfortable about themselves because they don't feel bad about their own feelings" (Laplanche 16) In the beginning of the novel Stoke...

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Dracula's character in the novel is extremely flat: he kills, feeds, and walks the earth as one of the 'undead'. ... It is a matter of opinion whether this is disgusting or laughable, but such a joke would never have found its way into Bram Stoker's original novel. ... The addition of a prologue and a love interest changes the direction of the original novel, and it can thus be seen that in the film, closure is achieved through the Count's redemption, not his eradication. ...

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In 1890, when his romance novel The Snake's Pass was published, he was already making notes for a novel with a vampire theme. ... The ending of the book was changed, perhaps to leave it opened for a sequel, in the manuscript the castle is destroyed but in the novel this 195 word ending is taken out: "As we looked there came a terrible convultion of the earth so that we seemed to rock to and fro and fell to our knees. ... It was at the same time and place that Mary Shelley created her famous novel Frankenstein. Other well known vampire novels include; The Vampyre, The Feast of Blood, The C...

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This paper will focus on the key aspects of Dracula as well as two events in the novel in order to make obvious Stoker's intent to symbolize Dracula as the anti-Christ. ... One marvelous example is in the beginning of the novel when Jonathan cuts himself shaving and Dracula dives for his throat, but stops at the site of Jonathan's crucifix. ...

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Some myths, created many years ago, have been produced into novels for our entertainment. When writing such novels, many authors alter the original legend, and some even create their own. ... In the novel, Dracula's appearances, description, and interaction with others establish an eerie mood. ...

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The detail in the novel was great and there's never a time when it shouldn't be there. ... Each character can reveal a past they regret or they don't like during the novel and it shows how the plots builds up through the characters. ... I thought it was a good novel to open up my imaginary mind in the back of my head and that's what made it so interesting. ...

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With the advent of television shows such as "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", fictional horror novels including Joel Schumacher's The Lost Boys and the series of vampire novels by Anne Rice, and movies such as "Interview with a Vampire" and "Bram Stoker's Dracula", one would believe that vampire appearances are just as common now as they were in the Middle Ages. ... Vampire Folklore in the 19th Century A resurgence of vampire folklore occurred in the late 1800s, when Gothic novels became increasingly popular. ... Wet with thine own best blood shall drip Thy gnashing tooth and haggard li...

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This theme is prevalent throughout the Gothic genre, from the earlier poetry of Coleridge, Christabel and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1797-98); through to Bram Stoker's popular novel Dracula (1897) and the striking late set Gothic text The Bloody Chamber (1979) by Angela Carter. ... In Stoker's novel, temptation is issued from the prurient and lascivious female characters. ... Both Coleridge and Stoker have religious backgrounds, a possible explanation for the distinct use of Christian allegory in their novels. ... The modernization and urbanization of society drove an overarchi...

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In the novel, good and evil are constituted by the nature and actions of the characters. Dracula who is representative of the evil, demonstrates all seven of the deadly sins. His pride, greed, lust, and wrath lead Dracula to commit immoral and evil acts. For example one of Dracula's evil p...

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There're many themes to the novel Dracula, however Christian faith was symbolized throughout the book. ... In my opinion the plot was most interesting in the beginning of the novel. ... Overall, I had a good and bad perspective of the novel. ...

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Written and set in the late 19th century, Bram Stoker's epistolary novel, Dracula, is a pivotal book in the horror/gothic literature. ... I think Stoker showed this as a threat in the novel perhaps because of the society he lived in believed that a woman that embraces her sexuality would have power over a man because she could control and nourish men's greatest sexual desires. ... Although Dracula himself is the embodiment of the horror aspect of the novel, the "hidden horror" lies in the liberation a woman's sexuality. ...

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Bram Stoker's novel, Dracula, depicts this contradiction by contrasting Lucy Westenra as a mortal to her character as a vampire. ... An analysis of the dual nature of Lucy's character, as well as the reactions Lucy elicits from the other characters in the novel, suggests that in a civilized society people are taught to seek traditional outlets for their sexually aggressive urges and to consider open expressions of sexuality culturally taboo. ... Thus the vampires in the novel symbolize the temptation open expressions of sexuality presents within society. ...

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With the steady stream of vampire novels, movies and television shows being produced, it is pretty clear that the vampire has become a big target of literature (Mayfield 1).Yet this was not always the case because vampires were once considered the creature of. ...

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