their audience. In Victor Frankenstein, the monster is part of a controversial experiment opposed by authority because of its way of cheating death. On the other hand, Van Helsing’s Frankenstein is portrayed as a harmless monster that is needed for his technology for a greater evil. Although both Victor Frankenstein and Van Helsing portray different versions of Frankenstein, they share similar qualities that can be depicted through lighting, setting, costume design, and music in both films.
Van Helsing is the most instrumental player in Dracula. If it weren 't for him, Dracula would have still been roaming around Europe. While the other characters might be important, they only helped in the planning and execution of finding and killing Dracula. He shows great bravery, selflessness, and inquisitiveness throughout the book, yet at the same time becoming a symbol of strength to the people he knew. Even though Van Helsing isn’t introduced into the story until chapter 9, the feeling
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 dark fantasy action-adventure film directed by Stephen Sommers which also has a TV-series. Another famous light novel converted into TV-Series is ”Hellsing” written and illustrated by Kouta Hirano from 1997 to 2008. Van Helsing is having
vampires (the un-dead), try to take over Britain. The novel’s heroes Dr. Van Helsing, Dr. John Seward, Johnathan Harker, Quincy Morris, and Arthur Holmwood are the first responders for this evil invasion of the British Empire. In the novel, the characters Dracula and Van Helsing play a major role for being the leaders of their respective groups. Dracula’s actions in the novel have the purpose to flourish the rise of the un-dead, while Van Helsing’s actions aim to preserve and protect the human race from
Van Helsing is a professor at a school, and it is also a philosopher. This means that he is a person that is really smart and wants to learn a lot of new things, he is a scientist. Van Helsing has been in different had a situation that has made him stronger. “ I have studied, over and over again since they came into my hands, all the papers relating to this monster; and he more I have studied, the greater seems the necessity to utterly stamp him out” (pg. 259).Helsing knows what he
cold-hearted parent who experiences his son’s transformation into a giant bug; worried only by a sense of lost financial support, Mr. Samsa has little to no concern towards his son’s welfare. On the other hand, Bram stoker, the author of Dracula sketched Van Helsing as a righteous hero character trying to save humanity by leading a group of courageous men and women to hunt down an evil vampire. Comparing a kind hearted, knowledgeable and fearless leader to an insensitive, selfish and broken Oldman, these two
wilfully go out of their way to help people without expecting anything in return. Some examples of this would be Dr. Van Helsing and his friends and people who try to help Lucy get back to normal. An example of why Van Helsing is so good is that when Dr. Seward asked him to come help Lucy when she was sick, he stopped whatever work he was doing and went to help Dr. Van Helsing was a vital part in helping to stop Dracula because he was an expert on Vampires. One of the reasons that makes the “good”
vengeance’. Telegraphs, typewriters, telephones, phonographs, and kodaks are all drawn upon in the fight against the vampire” (Byron). However, there are a few instances where technology fails to help the heroes. In one instance, a telegram from Van Helsing to Dr. Seward arrives late because of a glitch in the telegraph. This leads to Dr. Seward arriving too late at Lucy’s home to help her on the night that Lucy’s mother dies of shock and Lucy teeters on the edge of death after a wolf jumps into their
such as Van Helsing. Another such example is when Johnathan wears sporting clothes to the opera unlike the other characters who dress more formally and appropriately for the occasion. Also in the film Johnathan acts childishly when he makes empty threats. For example, when he becomes aware that Mina is in danger from Dracula, he commands Mina to promptly meet him in the library so they can leave for London; this occurs in spite of his being told that it is best that they stay with Van Helsing and Dr
handlers in Cantonese society, Dracula carries the essence of death with him through the law of similarity. , Conversely, there cannot be impurity without the possibility of purification. For Lucy, the purification ritual is her true death once Van Helsing and Seward drive the stake through her heart and cut off her head. Although Lucy is the strongest example of contamination via impurity, the same can be said about Mina in chapter 21 when she is bitten and forced to ingest The Count’s blood. She
Throughout ‘Dracula’, Stoker presents the idea of ‘foreigner’ through the characterisation of Count Dracula and Professor Van Helsing, who are the two main outsiders in the novel. Dracula, being a supernatural creature, is of Transylvanian descent which makes him such a poignant character. On the other hand, Van Helsing is a Roman Catholic, and is of a Dutch background, which also highlights him as a foreigner within ‘Dracula.’ In this essay I will explore how these two characters are represented
novel. When Lucy falls into sickness after her visit to Whitby, Dr. Seward and Van Helsing are called upon to aid her. The two are unable to cure her and Lucy passes away. Although she is dead, Van Helsing has somewhat of an idea as to why she has died. Van Helsing
death, Lucy was Mina’s best friend 3. Dr. Seward, Quincey Morris, and Arthur Holmwood are all suitors of Lucy crave to attack Dracula. 4. Dr. Van Helsing loathes
with Dr. Seward and Dr. Van Helsing aiding Lucy Westerna and Mina Harper. Of the two physicians however, Seward comes to illustrate the failings of Victorian English society, and is also romantically involved with one of the patients (Lucy Westerna) which confuses and muddles the normal duties one would expect from a doctor to their patient. From these distractions and lack of belief in the supernatural - modern Victorian society dismissed the supernatural - Dr. Van Helsing stands at the forefront
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
represents Victorian science, Van Helsing represents an open-minded science. “‘My thesis is this, I want you to believe.’…‘To believe in things that you cannot’” (Stoker 206). Van Helsing believes that, while science is wonderful, you must not let it hinder you from seeing things for what they truly are. His thought process quickly shows to be the dominant one throughout the book. For instance: while Seward struggles to figure out what Lucy’s ailment is, Van Helsing creates a solution after some
of the middle class in the form of discrimination and oppression. It was in this environment of anxiety that Stoker penned Dracula. Stoker, in Dracula, portrays contrasting representations of foreigners and how others regard them. In the case of Van Helsing, while still a foreigner, he is depicted as being morally righte... ... middle of paper ... ...y to those who read the story during this time. Stoker uses hybridity between modernity and folklore to hone in on the fears of the novel's earliest
sexuality and its significance. In Dracula, Bram Stoker compares two different perceptions of Feminism during the rise of woman's movements in the late nineteenth century through the roles portrayed by Lucy and Mina. Stoker connected Dracula and Van Helsing to himself to convey his own opinions with respect to the issue. Stoker's orthodox view on women was clearly seen in his novel. His belief of men being able to control women was depicted through Lucy Westenra. Lucy was one of the women of Dracula
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
ends up leading the war against Count Dracula. Lucy states that he is her “true friend, and [Arthur’s]! Oh, guard him, and give me peace!” (Stoker 172). After Lucy dies, Van Helsing becomes the protector of this group, and by extension, all of England. He is a foreign man, which is seen through the way his speech is written. Van Helsing acts as a window into the world of the supernatural. He is the character that illuminates who Dracula is and how to fight him in the best