Jonathan Harker

is—the essential one who saves the Western Victorian world from collapse and Dracula’s attempted colonization. One particular bit from Mina’s journal encapsulates the weak Western Victorian man in a most satirical fashion: “Whilst he was speaking Jonathan had taken my hand. I feared, oh so much, that the appalling nature of our danger was overcoming him when I saw his hand stretch out; but it was life to me to feel its touch—so strong, so self-reliant, so resolute. A brave man’s hand can speak for

Bram Stoker’s use of characterization and imagery to convey one of his many themes in the book Dracula. In Bram Stoker’s Dracula, the author uses characterization and imagery to convey the theme, Follow your instincts. For example, the use of characterization Stoker uses when describing Dr. Van Helsing Leads us to believe that Dr. Van Helsing’s character is very intelligent, even-minded, well-educated,and has great instincts.Without Dr. Van Helsing’s intelligence or level head ,The fate of many

through his supernatural powers, a fascination with youth and innocence, and imagery. Dracula seems to possess unexplainable supernatural powers. When Jonathan Harker is traveling to castle Dracula, he is unaware that the driver of his coach is the Count himself. During the nocturnal journey, the coach is circled by wolves, not knowing what to do Jonathan calls for the coachman and in return “heard

that “wind in deep gorges through the forest.”, the reader gets an image of peace and nature. Then immediatly after, we see a complete 180 from what the beautiful picture of the castle and landscape to a place of depression and internal conflict, Harker feels trapped and no longer feels like a guest in Dracula’s castle. Stoker’s use of imagery and shift in tone, from beauty and peace to imprisonment and fear shows his style, a form of uneasy peace and beauty in this quote. “We are in Transylvania;

goodness and religion, no matter which kind of religion. Dracula’s physical characteristics are one example of this. Dracula’s physical characteristics represent Dracula as a sinful character. In Jonathan Harker’s journal entry, he describes his passage to the Count’s castle and describes the Count. Harker writes, “the Count leaned over me and his hands touched me... a horrible feeling of nausea came over me, which, do what I would, I could not conceal”(Stoker 19). The hairy palms he describes depict

represents goodness and religion, no matter which kind. Dracula’s physical characteristics are one example of this. Dracula’s physical characteristics represent Dracula as a sinful character. In Jonathan Harker’s journal entry, he describes his passage to the Count’s castle and describes the Count. Harker writes, “the Count leaned over me and his hands touched me... a horrible feeling of nausea came over me, which, do what I would, I could not conceal”(Stoker 19). The hairy palms he describes depict

(“The girl has swooned”). Whilst Varney’s victim finds the “God of heaven” a comforting image during her desperation, Jonathan Harker is quite disconcerted by the locals’ eerie chanting and crossing of the fingers; he regards crucifixes as “idolatrous” and doesn’t believe they hold any power; this creates a chilling atmosphere as the peasants clearly know something Harker is yet unaware of: “The crucifix is still round my neck”. The narrative structures of the two texts are very similar

readers start to believe that this "Death" the old man had seen, could very well be Dracula himself.      Another example of violence transpiring for more than a sole purpose, is through the character of Jonathan Harker. Jonathan is struggling with an inner conflict, and one of the supernatural; man versus himself and man versus the supernatural. His inner conflict is due to the fact that in his mind, he is a prisoner in Castle Dracula, and there are no means of escape

The concerns of Victorian England about the status of faith and manhood have left a deep mark in the literature of the period. The Picture of Dorian Gray and Dracula are good examples of this concern. In both books there is an emphasis in the corruption of the body and of the soul as maladies that haunt the greatness of England. The aristocracy is pointed as the social strata from where this decadence will spread. These books show a population of youth that lacks the guidance of parents and are

Bram Stoker’s Dracula Lords of the darkness, Darkling Dancers, Nosferatu, Vrikolakas. And the list goes on like this. The vampire concept is thought by the most to be a myth that has crept into almost every culture. It has influenced many writers to write novels on them and many directors to shoot films on. Vampire myths go back way into the times of first recorded history. Many different legends are known about them varying from the Chinese belief of the glowing red eyed monsters with green or