Web icon An illustration of a computer application window Wayback Machine Texts icon An illustration of an open book. The large cast contains many fine acting parts, from the haunting vampire wives to the ever-popular Renfield, who fancies a diet of flies and spiders. Here, the count voices a male fantasy that has existed since Adam and Eve were turned out of Eden: namely, that women’s ungovernable desires leave men poised for a costly fall from grace. Confronted with an evil that seems impossible to understand, characters find it easier to believe they might be going insane and that their problems are entirely internal.

She is “one of God’s women, fashioned by His own hand to show us men and other women that there is a heaven where we can enter, and that its light can be here on earth. Though saddened by the fact that she must reject two of these suitors, Lucy accepts Holmwood’s proposal. One night, Mina finds Lucy in the town cemetery and believes she sees a dark form with glowing red eyes bending over Lucy.The information, images and media contained in these pages remains the property of Our Lady’s High School, unless otherwise stated. Stoker seems to be advocating an open-mindedness to knowledge that would not dismiss certain areas as being too ridiculous. Seward, was the one who cared for her, while another suitor, Quincy, contributed his blood to be transfused into her when she was in dire need of it.

This selflessness and generally noble predispositions are what make the brotherhood so strong and then ultimately successful against Dracula in the face of huge odds. But the Count is exceedingly resourceful, employing superhuman strength, psychic powers, and shape-changing to confound and frustrate his antagonists. Van Helsing takes Mina with him, and they cleanse Castle Dracula by killing the three female vampires and sealing the entrances with sacred objects. Early in the novel, as Harker becomes uncomfortable with his lodgings and his host at Castle Dracula, he notes that “unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere ‘modernity’ cannot kill.

It reaches a fever pitch as Jonathan gets deeper into the forest in the dead of the night, in the midst of the terrifying howling of Wolves.

By the time Dracula lands in England and begins to work his evil magic on Lucy Westenra, we understand that the impending battle between good and evil will hinge upon female sexuality. Our resources are crucial for knowledge lovers everywhere—so if you find all these bits and bytes useful, please pitch in. In Dracula, all of the dead are granted the unparalleled peace of salvation—only the “Un-Dead” are barred from it.

He builds the horror bit by bit; thus, while Jonathan’s journey to Scandinavian starts on a happy and comfortable note, the further inland he goes and the nearer he gets to Dracula, the more we get hints of the danger in front of him. Because of the many strange and supernatural events which take place in the novel, characters often question whether they might be going mad and imagining things. The fictional book ‘Dracula’by Bram Stoker contains a number of important themes that reflects Stoker’s philosophies and attitudes and, by extension the sensibilities of the period he lived in.

The men are so intensely invested in the women’s sexual behavior because they are afraid of associating with the socially scorned. Even the face of Dracula himself assumes “a look of peace, such as [Mina] never could have imagined might have rested there. Dracula tries to attack Harker after seeing blood on Harker’s body but is repelled by the rosary Harker carries. This careful ascendance of the horror constitutes a neat plot device that creates tension and suspense.

In print continuously since its first publication, the novel has inspired countless stage adaptations, films, and other literary works. We understand that not everyone can donate right now, but if you can afford to contribute, we promise it will be put to good use.