Dracula And Walt Whitman

While this idea when taken literally can be terrifying enough on its own, Dracula has a much darker and deeper messages written in between its lines. Stoker’s novel was written and published in the Victorian period, an age dominated by societal constraints and restrictions of expressing individual and sexual desires. Dracula affirms the lustful acts and sexuality that was oppressed for most Victorians by the norms of the time; the fear of feminine sexuality, the Victorian’s stereotypical attitudes toward sexuality, becomes a prominent theme within the novel. Stoker created the figure of the vampire as a being capable of releasing characters’ repression of sexual desires. Dracula, the main protagonist, is a being who is able to reveal the sexual desires and lusty actions that lie dormant within the characters.

Many gothic novels have tried to create an unsettling feeling within their audiences. None have achieved this quite as well as Dracula. The jarring transitions of action, and the sharp cliffhangers create many moments of suspense and unease. Using epistolary format is also a way of creating nervousness in the readers, as it not only make the story “believable”, but introduces many stories woven into one large mystery. However, the transitions of story is not the only factor creating the feeling of apprehension within the book. To create these feelings to his greatest potential, in Dracula, Bram Stoker uses symbolism to reinforce the uneasy atmosphere.

Are there still connections between Bram Stokers famous novel Dracula and modern day society? In Dracula, Stoker expands on many themes that indeed exist today. Not only does he touch on the most obvious theme, sex. He expands on gender division and good versus evil. Some say since times have changed the themes I introduced have changed as well, leaving connections between then and now irrelevant. However, I feel that although times have changed they still have roots from the time of the novel to now. In this essay I will expand on the themes of this novel while connecting them to modern day society, the critical texts I have chosen and will mention later on in the essay are a good representation of the commonalities between the chill, dark Victorian days in which the era that Dracula was written in and modern day.

Unremarkable though it may seem, to affirm the obvious truism that Bram Stoker’s Dracula originates from a century that historians often describe as the most significant in terms of revolutionary ideology, whilst wishing to avoid the clichéd view held, it is undeniable that the more one delves into the depths of this novel the greater wealth of meaning demonstrates significant correlation with Marxist ideology. The 19th Century saw the emergence of revolutionary socialist Karl Marx, who himself used the vampire metaphor to describe the capitalist system as ‘dead labour which, vampire like, lives only by sucking living labour’. Through Stoker’s opulent use of narrative structure, use of setting and imagery, this novel presents a multiple

Bram Stoker’s Dracula provides an immense amount of commentary about patriarchal society and gender roles. This is most evident through examination of the characters of Jonathan, Lucy and Mina. Using the supernatural figure of the vampire as a catalyst to examine these issues, Stoker illustrates male anxiety at female sexuality and the need for correction of women who do not adhere to the rigid gender norms of the Victorian era.

    Perhaps no work of literature has ever been composed without being a product of its era, mainly because the human being responsible for writing it develops their worldview within a particular era.  Thus, with Bram Stoker's Dracula, though we have a vampire myth novel filled with terror, horror, and evil, the story is a thinly veiled disguise of the repressed sexual mores of the Victorian era.  If we look to critical interpretation and commentary to win support for such a thesis, we find it aplenty "For erotic Dracula certainly is.  'Quasi-pornography' one critic labels it.  Another describes it as a 'kind of incestuous, necrophilious, oral-anal-sadistic all-in-wrestling matching'.  A

Stokers novel Dracula included things like concealed detestable, odd animals, baffling occasions, and heavenly revulsions which were partaken in numerous books in which he wrote in the mid 1900's. Bram Stoker passed on in London, England on 20 April 1912. His better half Florence survived him by a quarter century and had Dracula's Guest and Other Weird Stories distributed in 1922. Bram Stoker's novel, Dracula, is a period container containing the prominent considerations, thoughts, and convictions of the Victorian time that paints an energizing picture of what society resembled for Bram Stoker's era. it is vital to investigate the perspectives and air of the day and age of to pick up a superior see how the underhanded that is widespread in Dracula are only an impression of the Victorian time. Stoker added to the social build in the way that his book basically raised that men considered ladies being shrewd if given rights or having wants. Stoker composed twelve books which were ordered as gothic frightfulness, enterprise and sentiment. Stoker was a debilitated kid, generally laid up amid his initial years. Amid this time, his mom engaged him with stories and legends from Sligo, which included powerful stories and records of death and

Bram Stoker`s “Dracula” is one of his most prominent work, originally published in 1897. Forming part of the gothic literature; the novel focuses, through the character of Dracula, on the theme of Supernatural and Religion in an era largely dominated by Science and Rationality. This critical essay, will therefore demonstrate how Dracula, portrayed as the “other,” is essentially different from the rest and, how he subtly manage to incite people and challenge values and ideals of the British Society.

Stoker challenges the ideals of the Victorian Era and emphasizes modernity in Dracula by using examples of bold

In a particular addition of Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula, Maurice Hindle had suggested that “sex was the monster Stoker feared most.” This essay will examine the examples of this statement in the Dracula text, focusing on female sexuality. The essay will also briefly look at an article Stoker had written after Dracula which also displays Stoker’s fear.

The story of Dracula is well documented and has stood the test of time since it’s Victorian age creation. More times than not, literature writings are a reflection of the era from which they are produced. In the case of Dracula, Vampire literature expresses the fears of a society. Which leads me to the topic I chose to review: sexuality. The Victorian Era was viewed as a period diluted in intense sexual repression and I believe that Dracula effectively exploited this as the fear of sexuality was commonplace in the society. In this paper I will examine Bram Stoker’s Dracula and highlight his use of sexuality. I will analysis the female sexuality that is prevalent throughout the book, the complexities are at work within the text, and the

Bram Stoker’s Dracula does not follow the norm of the nineteenth century novels, that is, it is not written in a straightforward narrative but instead comprises of a collection of letters, journal entries and diary scrawls. Apart from that, it also includes a ship's log, numberless clippings from newspaper and also, a "phonograph diary.” This form of writing invariably helps in developing the “mystery” aspect of this horror novel since it either gives us no information about a particular thing or gives us information from various points of view so that it is impossible for the readers to come to one conclusion and they keep playing with different possibilities in their minds.

Dracula by Bram Stoker is a horror story about a hero’s quest to rid the world of vampires from the Victorian era. Readers are horrified by his graphic descriptions and horrifying struggles. However, Dracula is much more than just a vampire fantasy; in this novel, Bram Stoker explores the unconscious sexual desires repressed during the Victorian era and the controversy surrounding sexuality.

Abraham (Bram) Stoker began his life bedridden, weak, and helpless. Stoker, third of seven children, was born in Clontarf, a suburb of Dublin, on November 8, 1847 (Whitelaw 9). His parents were Abraham Stoker, from Dublin, and Charlotte Mathilda Blake Thornley, who was raised in County Sligo (“Bram Stoker”). He spent most of his early childhood laying in bed, watching his brothers and sisters play outside through a dusty old window. “As a child, he wondered if he would get sicker--if he would end up dying” (Whitelaw 10). He could fully comprehend the definition of misery by the age of ten. Stoker was considered lucky, given his paralyzed condition, to have a mother who sat by his bedside telling his stories to keep his mind off of his illness. He grew up fantasizing about vampires and fairies in Irish tales. It is not very shocking to see that, because he grew up around misery, he became so intrigued with dark literature. His mother built the foundation that Stoker would later build his theatrical/literary empire on. His love for theater introduced him to the literary world. Stoker’s work and interest with theater is what eventually led him to become so involved with Gothic Literature.

This quote by Ram Dass may be used to describe Dracula and its suspenseful, powerful, and blood-sucking components but can also be used to describe the author Bram Stoker and the character’s outlook on life. Jonathan Harker, the protagonist of the beginning of the story, travels to Transylvania. He finds himself at a castle owned by the pale and suspicious gentleman named