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Dracula Good Vs Evil

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Gripping at your heart, and deep in your soul, you can feel the effect that fear creates. This is a lingering emotion everyone tries to avoid. Intended to scare us we have been drawn to these stories that have been around throughout time. Dark genre, horror, and gore are somethings we have always enjoyed since the Twelfth century. This gives rise to the big question, why? Why do we enjoy this even though some turn in disgust or fear? Lastly, what does it show about us? According to Mellissa Bourbon Ramirez’s website, Why do we Enjoy Mysteries So Much? it says, “we find ourselves instantly involved in the characters lives, and being there with them, feeling what they feel, seeing what they see, experiencing their emotional journey.” The escape …show more content…

The urge to be thrilled by a scary movie is so strong for some people and a nightmare for others. Something you only think of in a nightmare is creatures that creep in the night and consume your blood as you sleep peacefully. Throughout time we have known Dracula to be this malicious villain that hurts who ever is in his path. In Bram Stoker’s Dracula good vs. evil is portrayed as Dracula being evil and his victims as good. In the novel it says, “the count had his own purposes when he gave her what Van Helsing called the Vampire baptism of blood” (350). This shows that the Count was a bad man and had a purpose for what he did. It’s obvious his intentions were to hurt everyone, and he does this by hurting the women to get to the men. This is a corrupt way to get what you want and hurt multiple people while doing it. These evil acts don’t go unnoticed they give rise to a bigger question. How does Dracula fit in with the nature vs nurture debate? Well, in this case Dracula would be nurture because most likely he wasn’t born that way and was bitten to become a vampire. In the book it says, “his face was strong a very strong aquiline with high bridge of the thin nose and peculiarly arched nostrils .... Peculiarly sharp white teeth” (Stoker 18). There’s this terrifying feeling you get about something that looks human but is superhuman. Its like zombies, they look like us (at first) and then they try to eat us. At this point the saying “we fear what we don’t know” comes into play, because we don’t know what they are or how they got here. This makes us very scared because we feel like we have no control over the situation. Just like in Dracula, they feared him because they couldn’t stop him, he was the overpowering force. When you think Dracula, you think “dark”, because that’s the tone of the whole novel it’s scary and keeps you on your toes excited to read what happens next.

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