Dracula Research Paper

Vampires in Today's Society

How would a vampire be described in today’s society? The author Abraham “Bram” Stoker is the creator of the novel Dracula. Bram Stoker was born in Dublin 1847 and Bram Stoker was born with an unknown Malady which made him not walk until the age of eight years old. The treatment Bram Stoker received from doctors was leeches, the leeches treatment was supposed to cleanse his blood. Bram Stoker then received the “University Athlete” and earns a BA in mathematics. Bram Stoker was a very intelligent man and was very interested with vampires. At a young age, Bram Stoker took interest of vampires, since the treatment he received when Bram Stoker was a child. Bram Stoker saw the leeches as an example of a vampire and he

First of all, the author’s depiction of the vampire is described as a monster. Bram Stoker uses a character named, Jonathan, to describe the vampire in Dracula, by describing the features. “His face was strong… though thin” (Stoker 18). Jonathan was a man on a business trip, to help Count Dracula with some paper work. In Jonathan’s point of view, the author describes Dracula as a elderly man with odd features. In today's society, the vampire is to be considered more of a younger male, handsome and attractive. Secondly, in the book How to Read Literature Like a Professor, the author Thomas C. Foster, describes the characteristics of the vampire in literature, describing vampires as an older figure. “The essentials of the vampire story, as we discussed earlier: an older figure representing corrupt” (Foster 19). The description of the vampire in Dracula and How to Read Literature Like a Professor, have the same description of the vampire. They are same because they describe the vampire as an elderly man. Later in Dracula, the vampire starts to create havoc on the main characters in the story. Foster’s depiction of the vampire also says that the vampire is an elderly man and also causes havoc or corruption. Last of all, in the novel Twilight by Stephenie Meyer, the description of the vampires in the novel are to be considered as beautiful, young and

First, Van Helsing describes to the men ways to kill the vampire or the so called “undead”. He tells them everything they need to know, “The branch of wild rose to keep him that he move not from it;… with our eyes” (259). The authors description of the ways to kill vampires are very different compared to other novels. Secondly, the ways to kill a vampire in today's society are very different from Bram Stoker's, as it is very difficult to do. In the novel Twilight the ways to kill a vampire is very different. They ways to kill Dracula are totally different than the ways to kill a vampire. The ways to kill vampires in Twilight are very difficult and it is unlikely to happen. The vampires in Twilight are immortal and the only way to kill them is to chop them up and burn each part of their body. According to the Twilight Saga Wiki “In the Twilight universe, vampires are not known to be killed by human effort, The only known way to kill a vampire is to dismember his or her body and burn the remains before it can reconstruct