Compare/Contrast Dracula and Bram Stoker's Dracula A noticeable difference in the way movies have changed over the years is evident when comparing and contrasting two films of different eras which belong to the same genre and contain the same subject matter. Two vampire movies, Dracula and Bram Stoker's Dracula, present an interesting example of this type of study. Comparing the 1931 version of Dracula, starring Bela Lugosi, with Frances Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula 1993 version yields
submissive and meek (Causey S., 2008). The Victorian era lasted from 1837 til 1901, with women being punished everyday for crimes that are nowadays just part of living for a woman. Bram Stoker was born during this era and wrote his most famous novel, Dracula (Miller, E. unknown). One of the main discourses in this novel is that of Women and their Morality of the time. Stoker uses 5 women in total to portray the Women discourse. The first is Mina Murray, a sensible young woman engaged to the main protagonist
First off, in Stoker’s Dracula the reader’s suspension of disbelief is lower as compared to folklore tales. He is a tall creepy old person when first revealed, but later on in the novel he is shown to be more sinister. This creates a sense of mystery and confusion. Another
Bram Stoker's Dracula Bram Stoker's Dracula is one of the most renowned British novels of all time. It has left its marks on many aspects of literature and film. Many thematic elements are present throughout the story and have been interpreted in many ways. Stoker uses his characters to manifest the themes that he wishes to imply. Three themes that present themselves throughout the book are the theme of Christian Redemption, science and technology, and sexual expression. Christian Redemption
While thought of as an improvement to human society, science also makes humans more close-minded. In Bram Stoker’s Dracula, technology plays an important role in the Victorian society. There are trains, phonographs, typewriters, and telegraphs. Trains are the main use of travel and telegraphs allow the characters to send each other short messages. In fact, the story itself has diary entries made by Mina’s typewriter or Dr. Seward’s phonograph that records his voice in wax cylinders. Also, the new
Bram Stoker’s Dracula is analogous to the 1958 movie Horror of Dracula. Dracula, a novel from 1897, is a story of a group of friends who come together, to not only fight for themselves, but also to fight for each other, and the curse of the vampire. They fight for peace and clarity, in order to resume their daily lives. The Horror of Dracula, A 1958 film, is a story of two men coming together to save their family from the curse of the vampire. Between both the film and the novel: the overall context
Bram Stoker’s Dracula Bram Stoker’s Dracula is a classic example of Gothic writing. Gothic writing was very popular in the 18th and 19th centuries. In the early centuries, Gothic writing would frighten the audience and it was also used as a style of architecture. Dracula, which was first published in 1897, would definitely cause a shock as there was a supernatural being, roaming around sucking people’s blood by the neck. Gothic literature usually includes vampires, monsters or some type
Bram Stoker's Dracula In act 2 scene 6 and act 3 scene 6 of the play ‘Dracula’, the playwrite creates impressive tension by using spine-chilling, ghostly settings, and slyly showing us situations in which characters such as vampires, prey on vulnerable characters such as Mina. Also, he uses soliloquies to give the opposing character no power. Also, by using soliloquies in these scenes he gives the point of view from the weak characters’ eyes. Firstly, the playwrite creates impressive
in mythology, with many variations of them around the world. Although the most famous version is Bram Stoker’s Dracula, many variants have come before and after telling of the same legend with their own added ideas and modifications to relate to their cultures. Today, there is a multitude of literary and film works that convey and resurface peoples’ fear of vampires. As gothic works like Dracula, by Bram Stoker and Scooby-Doo! and the Legend of the Vampire directed by Scott Jeralds share certain
paper. Rather, more types of images provoked by thought. We are readers. We are also thinkers. Stoker, as an author, not only brings us into the novel Dracula, but expects us to be a part of it as well. This allows not only the question of what we see, but what we feel as well. Seeing as though blood is an extravagant symbol in Bram Stoker's Dracula, I began to see it all around. Blood covered the walls of the castle. Blood stained many
Bram Stoker’s Dracula can be compared to F.W Murnau’s, 1922 film Nosferatu, due to the similarities in characters, plot, and the myth of vampires. The novel is a horror story of Dracula’s attempt to find new blood and spread the undead curse. Throughout the novel Dracula is challenged by a group of men in order to defeat the curse, destroy the undead, and enjoy their lives with a new sense of freedom. However in Nosferatu, Count Orlock’s attempt to obtain woman’s blood leads to sacrifice and death
Dracula as the Persecuted Outsider in Bram Stoker's Dracula Bram Stoker's Dracula is highly acclaimed and has received many different interpretations which deal with complex symbolisms and metaphors. These interpretations often require a great deal of knowledge in psychology, political science, anthropology, and other non-literary disciplines. These interpretations may be valid, as they are related to the disciplines on which their arguments are based, but the true power of the novel is due
Bram Stoker’s Dracula is the story about how the small company of men and a woman lead by Professor Abraham Van Helsing combats against Count Dracula, who moves from Transylvania to England in order to manipulate people as “foul things of the night like him, without heart or conscience, preying on the bodies and the souls of those [they] love best” (223). Stoker employs an epistolary format in this novel and nowadays, Dracula becomes one of popular literary works representing epistolary novels written
Female Sexuality in Dracula ‘The New Woman’ was a term that arose in the Victorian era. The term was a reaction against the long-held notions of femininity and the proper social sphere for women. Many people of the Victorian era were against this alternative lifestyle, which gave women new found freedom in many aspects of their lives. Bram Stoker use the women in Dracula as a tool to insist that if Victorian women evolve into ‘The New Woman’, they need to continue to submit to men and continue
appearance, Dracula will always come to mind first. Although he is first, that does not mean Dracula has not been influenced by a historical figure, Vlad the Impaler, and evolved from ancient thoughts on vampires. The setting, Victorian England, heavily influences Dracula because it describes a time period where there were very strict rules and ideas of how everyone in society should behave. Sexuality, religion, and abnormality were three major concerns for the society of that period and Dracula embodies
all forms of recording the past. The book Dracula which is about the undead counts attempt to create a race of vampires in England is an Epistolary. An epistolary is a way of writing where the narrative is given in the form of Newspaper clippings, letters, telegrams, journal entries, and other forms recorded information. Dracula is an epistolary with multiple charter points of view and wich let the reader learn more than the separate characters. Dracula is written as an epistolary but is also written
Bram Stoker's Dracula is a staple of the Gothic Horror genre. It is a novel that has been scrutinized by countless readers over the years. It has spawned an absolutely massive following that still persists to this day, more than a hundred years after it was initially published in 1897. While Stoker's novel is certainly not the first example of a piece of gothic horror, or even the first example of a gothic horror story focusing specifically on vampires, it still managed to fully capture the attention
Although over a century has passed since Bram Stoker published Dracula, the novel still influences our culture and society today, challenging many writers to try and recreate “the vampire” in a modern light. Though every writer tried to recreate their own kind of vampire, but fundamentals were kept intact. I will be discussing and comparing two stories of vampires with each other as well compare both of them to Bram Stoker published Dracula. The movie I will be discussing is ”Van Helsing” is a 2004 American
Paternalism in Bram Stoker's Dracula Paternalism is the domination of a society by a male or parental figure that leads or governs much like the way a father would direct his family. In Victorian society, the idea of paternalism was prevalent. The idea was also frequently used as a motif in western literature. Bram Stoker's novel Dracula, published in 1897, depicts a paternalistic society through a repression of the female sex and a continuous exaltation of the domineering male sex
Victorian England, as depicted in Bram Stoker’s Dracula was a much different time then the world that we live in today, this much should be obvious. The biggest difference, perhaps, is the one that is seen through the gender roles expressed in the novel. In Victorian England women were expected to maintain their chastity, at least until marriage or they would be shunned from society, or looked down upon. Once married they had “womanly duties” that were expected of them, duties that depended on them