For centuries, monsters have been used to portray many bad qualities, personalities, and versions of humans. Monsters are used to help us cope with our fears and worst nightmares in society. According to Patricia Donovan, who wrote an article titled Monster Culture, fear of monsters has brought many communities and cultures together in the past […]
Bram Stoker, an Irish author with an undeniably gothic reputation, once wrote in his famous novel Dracula: Oh, the terrible struggle that I have had against sleep so often of late; the pain of the sleeplessness, or the pain of the fear of sleep, with such unknown horrors as it has for me! How blessed […]
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Get startedIn his novel Dracula, Bram Stoker seeks to highlight the importance of following gender roles in the late 19th century. Throughout the story, many women rebel against societal gender norms and embrace their sexuality. In this novel, Bram Stoker suggests that women should follow their traditional Victorian roles and that female sensuality and rebellion will […]
Despite being a work of fantasy, there is a lot that can be drawn from Bram Stoker’s novel, Dracula. Its effectiveness, stems from its capability to play on human fears. However, it also reflects anxieties that riddled his era. The figure of Dracula stands as both the incarnation of England’s strongest fears during the nineteenth […]
Vampires are loved by the public and are often used a great deal in our society, whether it is through literature, shows, or cinema. One example of how vampires are used in literature is the Gothic novel Dracula by Bram Stoker. Regardless if one has or has not read the leading Gothic novel, Dracula, it […]
In the late 1970s a new killer was born, and his name was Dracula. Between his smooth interactions with the ladies and his large home this is one killer who knows how to bring his food to him. He made sure everyone remembers his name but never what happened that night when his victim and […]
In the novel Dracula, Bram Stoker describes his vision of the fallout from repressive English culture concerning sexuality and sexual acts of vampires and Dracula. Stokers vision of what the English society was and would become is represented by Dracula and his vampires. In the Victorian 19th century, gender and sexuality played a huge roll […]
What are the forces of good and evil and how do they affect the plot of Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula? The novel is a drawn-out struggle between good and evil forces that are identified through some religious archetypes. Many theorize about what influences’ Bram Stoker truly had, or the discreetly hidden implications of Catholicism tied […]
The word vampire brings to mind a myriad of spine tingling images; eyes as red as the fresh blood dripping from a pale chin, an eerily wing-like cape flapping in the wind of a misty night, a worryingly well-preserved crypt in an old abandoned castle. Or perhaps the more modern interpretation of a beautiful and […]
Dracula makes an effort to portray what the role of sexuality and gender had in the Victorian Era. It does a good job of making the novel more realistic and adding a different aspect to it. Women were very naive and were not allowed to show affection towards men or do anything that would show […]
Vampires have long been discussed and portrayed in books and movies. Originally, vampire folklore depicted vampires as savage, parasitic and, of course, bloodthirsty monsters. However, over time the way vampires have been portrayed has markedly changed. We now see handsome/beautiful creatures that have a more sensitive soul, more intelligent, and of course let’s not forget […]
