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Blood spurts from the female vampire’s chest, as her human lover drives the stake further and further into her heart. The scene where Lucy is killed can be interpreted in different ways due to the varying interpretations of blood. One way to interpret blood and vampirism in Bram Stoker’s Dracula is through the psychoanalytical critical lens. In this interpretation, blood symbolizes sexual fluid and vampires are a metaphor for eroticism. The novel was written in Victorian England, which had strict

First of all, women's transformation into a vampire represents the change of men's perspectives towards women. During the transformation women gain the ability to hold power over men via sexuality. Obviously the novel is set in the Victorian society, which clearly is in a masculine-dominated and anti-feminist period. In addition, the typical woman is very traditional, meaning she does her main roles as a beholder and caretaker to her family. However, Bram Stoker attempts to represent, by transforming

Children of the night and other supernatural beings have always piqued the interest of people, especially in 19th century England. Dracula, written after the time when Gothic literature was popular, never aroused much attention until a decade later, when critics decided to reanalyze the novel. Dracula is often the first novel that comes to mind when the Gothic genre is mentioned, but Dracula is not a Gothic novel at all. The novel’s resolution contradicts the Gothic structure since it ended with

anywhere” (Bram Stoker 16). In the novel Stoker describes the count as very strong, shape shifter, has no reflection, casts no shadow, possibly immortal, has hypnotic power, and survives on blood. While reading you will start to realize when Jonathan Harker starts to realize the count is a vampire because he notices the characteristics of him and then realizes. While reading you will start to understand that the count is not immortal and has limitations like he may not enter unless invited in, loses

Dracula: The Metaphor for Late Victorian-Crisis Jarae Comstock Reinhardt University This paper was prepared for IDS 306 for Dr. Little Dracula: The Metaphor for Late Victorian-Crisis Bram Stokers, Dracula, from the late-Victorian era, is one of the best stories of vampire folklore. Dracula was tall, dark, handsome, and mysterious with immense sexual character. His snow white teeth which outlined his rosy red lips made us fantasize of him and ultimately become obsessed. The overwhelming

Dracula by Bran Stoker, there is a character that goes by the name Renfield. In the novel Renfield has a troublesome time choosing a side, is he going to be evil and be with Dracula’s and be his slave, or is he going to be good and help Dr. Seward, Mina , Jonathan, and the gang try to kill Dracula. At you can first see Renfield showing signs of wickedness in chapter 6 when Dr. Seward refused to give him a cat as a pet because Dr. Seward knew Renfield’s intention if he was to get him a cat, as we continue

Why are people so obsessed with vampires today that they go crazy over any book, movie, or tv-show that has a vampire? In 1897, the year Dracula was published Britain was at the height of the empire expanding. Britain had conquered huge expanses of land from Africa, Asia, and North America and used the land for military and economic power. The rise of the United States and European powers threatened to unseat Britain and the world's most powerful nation, at the time this was occurring a rise in immigration

Gothic fiction emerged in the late eighteenth century and it was an extension of Romanticism. The principal characteristic of Gothic is the account of terrifying situations with elements like the sublime, madness, mystery, death, supernatural and horror. But as all the literary genres it underwent a transition. In the nineteenth century, the coming of Queen Victoria to the throne, the introduction of new scientific theories, the publication of The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin and industrialization

these undead. We learn this through Stoker's vampire expert Van Helsing, he seems to be the most educated on the subject of the undead and creatures of the night, otherwise known as vampires. He explains to the rest of the posse, which consists of; Harker, Quincy, Dr. Seaward, and the Van Helsing, on how this feat must be done. But later, in one of the

2015 Bram Stoker’s Dracula: Victorian Men and Women 1. Introduction Bram Stoker’s world famous novel Dracula, blurs the lines between Victorian ideal gender roles by using strong central female characters, such as, the three vampire sisters, Lucy and Mina, to express a powerful female sexuality challenging the Victorian notion of what makes a woman. The Victorian society placed women in a bubble of sexual purity and fragileness, making men the central heroes and the ideal representation of sexuality