Dracula can achieve an unchanging form for a very long time but not forever. Eventually, his existence will decline to an unbearable state. .
Another aspect of immortal existence is the boredom that would inevitably arise from continuing unchanging and performing the same tasks over and over again for the rest of time. Boring tasks that continue for an extended period of time can be rationalized away by the beings that face an impending death as having an eventual end, at death if not before. Even tasks that are not considered boring or are required for survival, such as eating, could become painfully boring when repeated for the rest of all eternity. Relationships, that could break the monotony of this existence, are impossible to maintain for the vampire with anyone but other vampires and since it appears that there were approximately four vampires in existence (Dracula and the three lady vampires) this is a severely limited pool of associations. Friendships between vampires and non-vampires would be impossible firstly because of the food-prey relationship but also because of the vampire's unchanging existence. The vampire would continue along the same path forever while the non-vampire would grow old and die. Dracula seems to have maintained a high degree of sanity, but a normal mind subjected to infinite monotony and unending solitary confinement would become unhinged. It could be expected that most long-lived vampires would be, to some varying degree, insane.
Finally, the vampires that are created by Dracula do not have the freedom to do anything Dracula himself does not wish them to do. Mina Harker slips more and more deeply into the thrall of the vampire after drinking of his blood. She becomes so deeply captivated by him that there is concern in discussing plans relating to Dracula near her "dear Madam Mina is changing we must keep her ignorant of our intent, so that she cannot tell what she know not" .
His only purpose was to revitalize himself on the blood of the living in an effort to ensure his immortality. ... What about Mina and Dracula? ... Dracula says "Where is my God? ... The question is: why give reasons for Dracula's behavior? ... So is Dracula really the villain? ...
In Stoker's (1965) novel, Dracula, Count Dracula was among the Un-Dead in the form of a vampire. ... Count Dracula bit Lucy. ... His plan was to destroy the source of the evil, Count Dracula. ... The final tasks led them to Count Dracula's castle. ... There was a great struggle preceding Count Dracula's death. ...
An example of this in the text Dracula is expressed through the character of Lucy. ... Vampires in The Vampire Lestat represent unlimited sexual freedom, contrary to the restriction of Dracula. ... Bram Stoker's Dracula and The Vampire Lestat each have strong themes relating to religion, either as an attempt to uphold religious ideals, as in Dracula, or as a challenge to those conservative beliefs, The Vampire Lestat. ... His portrayal of Dracula as a character is greatly that of the elusive, stealthy and seductive being distanced from direct contact to the audience. ... Unlike much o...
Count Dracula has powers such as having the ability to turn humans into the undead, like Dracula himself. He can transform his own shape and he also has near immortality. ... The use of religion in Dracula' is a lot easier to spot. ... Bram Stoker's Dracula emphasizes role of Christianity against Dracula's Anti-Christian presence. ... Dracula uses many biblical references and shows a true resemblance between Dracula and anti-Christian beliefs. ...
The Roman Catholic one set up that same complex ritual described by Bram Stoker in "Dracula-; the first step is the staking of vampire's heart, then the chopping of his head off and the final step is the filling of the mouth with garlic. ... For example, let's take the Romantic vampire of Goethe and Byron, the gothic one, take Varney the Vampire and Dracula, the modern vampire of King and J. ... They have common traits that makes them recognisable as vampires, but their are very different in many way: in King's Salem's Lot, vampires cannot sustain daylight, while Dracula...
Keywords: Freudian Psychoanalysis, Complex, Vampirism in Art, Eros and Thanatos, Women, Death, Immortality 1. ... Certainly, any close examination of the works of Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker's Dracula, or Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. ...
This is because due to, example modern books and movies; the superstitons linked to them have dissolved and are replaced with aspects such as immortality that society desires for itself. ... Movies by Tim Burton are popular such as "Beetlejuice", or movies like "The Craft", "The Crow", "A Clockwork Orange", "Dracula" etc. ...
