The Influence Of Keystones In The Battle Of Good And Evil

Stoker additionally explores aspects of the feudal system through the idea of free will. Upon arriving at Castle Dracula, Harker is greeted with ‘Welcome to my house, enter freely and of your own will’. It seems Harker is free to do as he wishes, however Harker is now at the mercy of his new surroundings and the Count. Harker recognizes similarities between the Count and the driver, who transports him to the castle: ‘the strength of the hand shake was so much akin to that which I noticed in the driver’, subsequently, for Harker to leave he would need the

Stoker, Dracula (1879), pages 9-74 Ch1-6 What I found immediately interesting about this novel is that there are so many warning signs presented to Jonathan Harker as he makes his way to Transylvania and at the beginning of his stay at Count Dracula’s house. For example, all the superstitious reactions from the villagers, the very strange ride up to the castle, the lack of servants, and Count Dracula’s odd demeanor. All of these things should cause alarm in Harker, yet he continues on with his task anyway. I wonder what makes him ignore these obvious signs?

He noticed that he never saw the Count eat or drink and was never home at night. One night a strange incident occurred after he had tried to escape: three vampiric women were bent over his bed deciding who would take the first bite. Jonathan Harker was miraculously saved when Dracula intervened at the right time. After that, Harker began investigating more and started to put the pieces together. He concluded that the Dracula was a vampire and that during the day he was constricted to his humanly body while at night he transformed himself to an ominous animal or transported himself through a box. He was able to do this because he had a set of boxes with a special powder that at any time he could go to. Jonathan Harker narrowly escapes one day and heads back towards Hungary for recuperation from Transylvania. Near the time that he gets back to England, a young woman named Lucy begins to get ill and people notice that she is losing blood. Two doctors are called in to try to cure her, but nothing is helping her heal. She then dies and the doctors conclude that there is probably a vampire involved in her death because of two small holes on her body. When she is ut in her tomb, they go back to make sure that she is really dead, but she is not there. She was out at a neighboring village terrorizing things but not harming them. They then cut off her head and drive

The main characters in Dracula change over the course of the story in many ways. Jonathan Harker starts off in the story as an ambitious and hopeful lawyer, who is eager to travel to new lands for business. Once Jonathan gets a glimpse of who Dracula really is, he immediately begins to live with fear of Dracula, especially after encountering the three ghostly women. By the time he escapes the castle and gets back home, he is traumatized when he realizes that his stay at the Count's castle was real, and not a dream. Determined to find out the truth, Jonathan joins up with Van Helsing and the others. By the time the group defeats Dracula once and for all, Jonathan is no longer the person he was before he went to the castle. He, alongside with

Stoker’s plot development is another big part of his writing. The count is an undead who lives inside the fortress with three attractive but frightening vampire women: Harker finds the terrible truth shortly (Stade and Howard, 386). He plans to devour the blood of important English women, incapable of stopping the count from conveying his plan to travel to England along with that he, Jonathan, is a captive (Stade and Howard, 386). Stoker starts by depicting where Dracula lives and what his plans are. People discover Dracula has shattered his skull together with a fragmented neck and spine (Stade and Howard, 388).

“Doors, doors, doors everywhere, and all locked and bolted. In no place... is there an available exit. The castle is a veritable prison, and I am a prisoner!” (Stoker 27). Dracula is a nineteenth-century thriller that contains horrific factors of gothic literature and takes place during the Victorian era. In the novel, Bram Stoker chooses to present strongly-written characterization of Mina Harker to counteract the elements of gothic literature by having her bring a positive mood to the story, represent women of the future, and associate loyalty with the essential characters.

Dracula takes place during the Victorian Age, a time of religious expansion and a focus on social class structures. Bram Stoker, creates Dracula a human with animalistic characteristics who is a menace to society. Immediately when Johnathan enters the East we see the fear Dracula inflicts in the townspeople, when Jonathan tells the superstitious old lady that he is about to go to Dracula’s castle and meet with him “she went down on her knees and implored me not to go; at least to wait a day or two before starting; “She then rose and dried her eyes, and taking a crucifix from her neck offered it to me” (Stoker 5). The old lady offering Johnathan a crucifix and imploring Johnathan not to go to the castle is a sign that she knows that Dracula is dangerous and that she knows what he is capable to doing. We then see Harker in the castle “But my very feelings changed to repulsion and terror when I saw the whole man slowly emerge from the window, and begin to crawl down the castle wall over that dreadful abyss, face down, with his cloak spreading out around him like great wings” (Stoker 32).

Where it is shown in Jonathan Harker’s situation where he has the desire to be with the three brides. Even as he is terrified to be kissed/bitten by the sexy vampire, Jonathan remains passive and still, because their sexuality overpowers Jonathan and brings up his hidden desires. While Harker “waited—-waited with a beating heart” (Stoker 52) his desire for penetration is denied when Dracula enters the room and tears the women apart from biting Harker, saying that, “This man belongs to me” (Stoker 34). However it is not a homosexual desire to have Harker rather Dracula wanted to gain the English blood of Jonathan and have the white race in him. Another point of view on drinking the English blood is that Dracula wanted to be part English.

In the first chapters of Dracula , the reader reads about Jonathan Harker, an English estate agent for Count Dracula who wishes to move to England. Jonathan was sent to do this job by his boss, Peter Hawkins. While being sent out to finish this job, Jonathan lives what seems to be a nightmare come to life. While his boss is home relaxing, not worrying about anything. In the novel, Dracula is quite courteous to Jonathan as he cooks him fancy dinners and treats him with an enormous library of literature that seems to spike his interest. Dracula is entertaining his guest and making him think that everything is okay. Dracula puts an embargo on certain rooms to prohibit him for discovering the ugly truth. Dracula is playing the puppet master roll, as he is controlling Jonathan the same way that any CEO would control their investors and their money. Later in the first chapter Dracula tricks Jonathan into thinking that his work there is almost completed but in reality his life is slowing about to come to an end.

Dracula may be blood-curdling but he is not that frightening, to say the least. Just as Jonathan Harker (a lawyer) entered the barren castle in the outskirts of Transylvania, a strange but unique looking man answered the door, and here are Harker’s thoughts: “Within stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere” (Stoker 20). As one can see, Stoker really is trying to emphasize his notion of vampire qualities. Once again, Jonathan recollects his thoughts saying:

A recurring theme in the book Dracula by Bram Stoker is the ever famous theme of good vs evil. The two are personified in the form of the protagonist Jonathan Harker and the antagonist Dracula. Jon Harker being the protagonist and representing good in the novel, is given sweet and naive traits. Whereas Dracula, representing evil, is depicted in a decrepit but still charismatic manner.

If this quote were to be taken out of context, it would be difficult to distinguish the man from the monster. Senf does a great job in pointing out the similarities between Harker and Dracula. Harker acts upon behavior generally attributed to a vampire, such is the habit of attacking a sleeping victim, violence, and irrational behavior. Harker disregards his civilized Englishman manner for in his mind he can justify his violent attack to Dracula because he can picture himself as the protector for millions of helpless criticizes. All of the narrators insist on the duty to defend the innocents. Senf implies that the

“He speaks in perfect English and welcomes Harker inside, shaking his hand with an ice-cold, vice-like grip” (Dracula, 55). Dracula explains to him that he will no be able to make the trip to London, but one of his trusted servants will be going along with Harker back to London. After supper Jonathan analyzes Dracula and notices one very strange feature, his mouth is thick and white; they cover sharp white teeth, which stick out over his lip. What Jonathan does not know is that those teeth are canine teeth only found in animals. There are exceptions, for instance, vampires have these teeth so they can puncture the human’s carotid vessel in their neck and suck their blood. The first time that Jonathan sees Dracula’s cannibal teeth grow is when Harker starts shaving. He accidentally cuts himself and Dracula leaps for his throat so he can suck his blood. Harker touches his crucifix and Dracula’s “demonic fury” vanishes. The strangest event that Harker notices in Dracula’s castle is “Dracula emerge from his room on the floor below, slither out, head downward, in lizard fashion, with his cloak spread out around him like great wings” (Dracula, 179). This shows that “Dracula is not a person. He is a presence, an absence that requires concealing” (Wolf, 368). This tells Harker that something is very wrong with this man. He recalls how the peasants behaved

The cover of the novel ‘The Body Institute’ has a design that features mostly dull colours with some blue, an image of a female as well as a question for the reader to ponder. The dull colours which are predominantly greys and white portray that this story could be a dark story. Blue is the other colour present in the cover of the novel, it is showing the anatomy of the brain and highlighting the word ‘Body’ therefore as these are eye-catching to the audience, it is likely that they are focal points of the story. The image of the female is situated in the foreground whilst also taking up about a third of the cover, this indicates that she will be the main character of the novel. The question on the cover lets the reader ponder this idea left

Harker also seems to develop signs of paranoia. An early sign of this paranoia is when Harker accepts the rosary from the old lady at the inn before he continued on with his journey. He did not know how to react to this, stating in his journal that “as an English churchman, I have been taught to regard such things as in some measure idolatrous” This shows the opening signs of paranoia, having neurotic ideas. He does not accept that he is the one going against his views, he instead decides to pin it on the old lady for being so kind in her offer. As he stays in Dracula’s castle, Harker begins to feel trapped, as well stated on page 27. He fights this feeling in many ways. One that stands out though is his method of writing the letters he’s allowed to write by Count Dracula. He keeps them short and concise, for fear that the Count may read them. This demonstrates a fear of being watched, and can also be accounted for as paranoia.