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.
To start with, there is a reason why Dracula can never be evil. He doesn’t have an innate quality that makes him evil. In the beginning of the novel it seemed like he had some capacity of goodness in him. From the article Dracula and Philosophy, it says “Dracula is not perpetrating evil acts for their own sake, simply to cause harm and chaos”. What it means is that Dracula is selfish and attempting to reclaim the former glory of his family but it doesn’t make him evil for doing that. An example to compare Dracula’s scenario, it is the same as how Dr. Seward treatments were on Renfield. Dr. Seward causes Renfield to suffer, but only because he does not fully understand the distress it will cause him. If he did this in another way out of specific intent to hurt Renfield, he would be counted as Evil. His intentions were decisive. While the results are same whether or not he meant to harm Renfield, his own character is determined by the motives which make him act the way he does. In this case, Dr. Seward is not evil. Another character that would portray good would be Arthur. He was put into a difficult situation where the love of his life Lucy who was turned into a vampire. Him and his group set a trap for her and caught her in the moment here he had decide whether to kill her or not but he didn’t want to see her like that
Anyone who has ever seen one of the several adaptations of Dracula as a movie will know that it was intended to be a horror story. Stoker goes to great lengths in order to create an
Batman beats the Joker. Spiderman banishes the Green Goblin. For centuries story tellers have used the basic idea of good beats bad to guide their tales. Stories of blood sucking, human possessions and other tales have been passed down generations and vary between cultures. Among the creators of the famous protagonists is, Bram Stoker, the creator of Dracula. This fictional character was soon to be famous, and modified for years to come into movie characters or even into cereal commercials. But the original will never be forgotten; a story of a group of friends all with the same mission, to destroy Dracula. The Count has scared many people, from critics to mere children, but if one reads betweens the line, Stoker’s true message can be
While several themes arise in the novel, Dracula, by Bram Stoker, the theme of good versus evil is the primary theme of the conflict between the crew and Dracula. It is evident from the beginning of the novel that the members of the crew are the good people dedicated to destroying Dracula portrayed as evil. The indication of the fight against evil was already imminent even when Dracula had not been clearly identified and were exemplified by Jonathan Harker as he says, “What manner of man is this, or what manner of creature is it in the semblance of a man?” (Stoker 50). By cultivating the mysterious personality of Dracula, it is apparent to readers that Dracula is and will always be on the evil side.
Bram Stoker’s Dracula expressed the nature of good and evil. An English realtor, Jonathan Harker, journeyed to Transylvania in order to complete a sale for a residence in London to a Transylvanian vampire, Count Dracula. What Harker did not know was that Dracula wanted to move to England so he can expand his power, creating a new monarchy of vampires.
Many scenes in ‘Frankenstein’ are pastoral, thus creating a non-threatening atmosphere, however, it is circumstances and ignorance which result in the creature becoming despised and hunted which in return change his nature and character when he seeks revenge for the injustices done against him. Dracula, from the beginning, is the embodiment of evil - he plots and schemes. One could make excuses for him and say he needs blood or he becomes extinct and it is a form of self-preservation. This is so, however, throughout the novel we are faced time and again with examples of gratuitous malevolence he makes no distinction between man or woman, child or baby. Many scenes in ‘Dracula’ are set in the dark and ominous Castle Dracula, this results in a pervading atmosphere of apprehension.
Bram Stoker’s Dracula is a story of horror, suspense, and repulsion. The main antagonist, Count Dracula, is depicted as an evil, repulsive creature that ends and perverts life to keep himself alive and youthful. To most onlookers that may be the case, but most people fail to see one crucial element to this character. Dracula is a character that, though it may be long gone, was once human, and thus has many human emotions and motives still within him. Let us delve into these emotions of a historically based monster.
In everyday life, as in literature, there will always be an opposing force to evil. In the novel “Dracula,” by Bram Stoker, Professor Van Helsing acts as Dracula’s main antagonist. An antagonist is the character who acts against the main character, which increases the conflict of the story and intensifies the plot. Through the use of theme, characterization and specific events, the author shows readers how Dr. Van Helsing effectively fits the role of Dracula’s most threatening adversary.
Harker describes Dracula's castle to be just as one would imagine an “evil layer” to be. Complete with a foreboding ambiance,
The theme in Dracula is that classic Gothic theme of the epic battle of good versus evil. In this novel this is expressed in a very direct way, there is never any question as to who is right and who is wrong. As it can be clearly seen the protagonists on the side of good have many endearing qualities while the antagonists on the side of evil have a pact with Lucifer and are of the purest evil. The main antagonist in this story, Dracula, has
Evil never conquers because good always overcomes it. A good example of this is the book Dracula by Bram Stoker because the author expresses the nature of good vs. evil. Dracula wants to come to London because he wants to turn everyone into vampires. The basic background of the book Dracula is when Jonathan Harker, a realtor who is sent to Transylvania to complete a transaction with Dracula so he can come to England. What Harker does not know is that Dracula has a plan for world domination. Well, while Harker is on a train to Transylvania he enters “the east, a section of Europe whose peoples and customs will be for the most part, strange and unfamiliar” (Dracula, 20). Harker arrives at Bistritz on the eve of St. George’s Day,
First off, Dracula is the epitome of evil. He may have some goodness very much deep inside his soul. The absolute first evil action that Dracula performed, was trapping Jonathan Harker in the castle, and trying to eat him. Fortunately, Harker barely escaped with a brain fever, but Dracula kept lurking on more people. Dracula proceeded with the attack
Dracula written by Bram stoker is a Novel that many people enjoyed. It talks about the good and evil. It was a Novel about suspense horror and mystery. In the novel Dracula Bram Stoker tell us the story of a vampire known as count Dracula who is known by the people of Transavia to be completely evil. I will be analysis the novel to see why Stoker wrote the book, who he wrote it for, the good people in the story, and some other analysis. First I will beginning with the reason Stoker choose to write about Dracula.
“Where there is no imagination there is no horror” - Arthur Conan Doyle. His quots being used is simply about being able to imagine horror. You might be asking yourself “Why is this important?” Well being able to imagine thing that aren't real is a quality humans have that is very interesting. Things like this can get a person inspired to feel different emotions such as fear to love.
But even though there is the existence of the many differences between Dracula and the soft light just before sunrise or after sunset, they still share a lot of things in common. In her study,The Horror of Dracula: the soft