Theme Of Power In Dracula

Strength Through Power

A. AGFS: Do you believe the power of any emotion can drive a person to do the impossible?

A. Bram Stoker’s Dracula has many themes in it, more specifically, power is a main theme in the gothic novel.

B. All the characters are controlled by a certain emotion and use that particular emotion to defeat Dracula.

1. When Jonathan first discovers Dracula’s true nature, he is teeming with fear, as do many of the characters they encounter the true Dracula.

2. Jonathan Harker said: “What kind of man is this, or what manner of creature is it in the semblance of man? I feel the dread of this horrible place overpowering me; I am in fear-in awful fear- and there is no escape for me; I am encompassed about with terrors that I dare not

Dracula realizes his affect on his country and that they have figured ways out to stop his exploitation, therefore, he must move to London.

III. BP2/Topic Sentence: Love is a major motivator all through the Dracula.

A. When the four men find that Lucy is Un-Dead they feel a tremendous amount of anguish.

1. Lucy is the person that connects all the characters

2. They find Lucy, the Un-Dead creature, a foul being

1. “But there was no love in my own heart, nothing but loathing for the foul Thing which had taken Lucy’s shape without her soul” (183).

B. Although Lucy was not present for most of Dracula, she is loved dearly by many and is a major motivation through the emotion of love.

1. The three men who proposed to Lucy are battling Dracula because of their love for her.

2. The reader sees the emotions that run rampant when Mina, Jonathan, Arthur Holmwood, Dr. Seward, Dr. Van Helsing, and Quincey Morris find that Lucy is truly dead.

C. The love the characters experience is the main component to Dracula’s downfall.

1. Mina’s devotion to Jonathan helps her against Dracula’s forbidding prowess.

2. Arthur announces that he and Lucy shared blood, so they are married.

1. Arthur vows to cleanse the world of Dracula’s damned

Lucy, who is considered promiscuous by Victorian standards, becomes a vampire because she is scandalous, which is what Bram Stoker is trying to say. If you are “loose” and have four different men’s fluids running through you, you become un-pure, which is appalling in the Victorian people’s minds.

1. Lucy has four blood trasnfusions.

V. BP5/Topic Sentence: Good Vs. Evil has always been a constant battle in every tale, but good always prevails in the end.

A. Mina is portrayed as pure, while Lucy is seen as the seductress with three suitors

1. Her heart is completely devoted to Jonathan Harker.

2. Mina is completely truthful and sincere in everything she does.

B. Van Helsing, Quincey Morris, Dr. Seward, Mina, and Jonathan Harker are all on the good side

C. These 6 companions remain on a quest to kill the wicked.

D. Van Helsing has knowledge on how to defeat Dracula, even with his nefarious powers.

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E. The remaining characters have good intentions toward each other.

1. “Generally, eating with another is a way of saying, ‘I’m with you, I like you, we form a community together.’ And that is a form of communion” (Foster 8).

2. Mina and the other men either have dinner, or the men have drinks together which is still forming a bond through communion.

3. BP6/Topic Sentence: Religion is a major theme in