The issues, which are raised and discussed within Bram Stoker's Dracula, are controversial and go astray from the values of the Victorian society, they however also reinforce values, which are widely accepted. Bram Stoker's Dracula is open to many interpretations. Suprisingly it seems much of Bram Stoker's Dracula' is almost based upon his real life. With many characters symbolising someone in his life and his fears of women being prevailed through his character Johnathon.
Dracula is liberating and eye-catching in its transgressive context and ideas, yet it also horrified (and amused) its readers in the way that it challenged the boundaries of acceptability. These boundaries were those of anti-Christianity, sexual and erotic behaviour. Gothic fiction also addresses many social anxieties; about feminism and changes to domestic and social order including gender roles. Though Dracula challenges Victorian values it reinforces those which are established these are bravery, morality, the love between Johnaton and Mina and their close relationship. Gothic fiction shows a fascinated fixation with the passionate, imaginative, irrational, supernatural and the brutal. It shows an interest in moral, sexual and emotional behaviour, which transgresses the norms of acceptance.
Therefore, the gothic often brings into that which Victorian society and thinking tries to separate: pleasure and pain, the beautiful and disgusting, the sanctioned and the forbidden.
Anti- Christianity which is a major theme of Stoker's text Dracula this motif is sustained throughout the novel. .
The theme of Good' Vs Evil' takes on a religious tone with the two forces almost becoming God, which are the brave band of good men who try to fight Dracula and Satan who is Dracula. One of the most well known aspects of a vampire is that it must feed upon the blood of the living; Dracula must drink to survive, (similar to people drinking the blood of Christ.
