Stoker

The story of Dracula consists of many genres that it can be classified as, some of them being adventure, fantasy, horror and gothic fiction. The writing style of Bram Stoker is unique and he uses any word to his advantage, describing the novel and painting a picture for the reader. The graphic description helps readers to imagine the place and make it seem as if they were there in person. The time-period of which this story was written and based upon, was in the mid-Victorian era (1850-1870). In

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

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

novel, Dracula, was written by Bram Stoker in the late eighteen hundreds. The setting of Dracula is during the end of the nineteenth century, in England and Eastern Europe. The entirety of the novel is based on a vampire with heinous intentions that he casts upon a group of English citizens whom decide to rid the town of his evil. While reading the novel it is apparent that the genre is horror and gothic and that the tone is very dark and dramatic. Bram Stoker does this in a very intentional way

unacceptable statement regarding imagined polyandry is inconsistent with the treatment of women and their sexual appetites in the greater Stokerian corpus. While the values espoused in an author's separate works do not always have bearing on one another, Stoker clearly had certain subjects and ideas throughout his literary productions that he revisited again and again. In his works both before and after Dracula, certain character types, plot elements, turns of phrase, and even quotations1 present in his

Bram Stoker creates a well written novel that engages the reader. He designs this novel to contain several techniques which bring character and originality to his writing. Bram Stoker refers to an abnormal character appearance in his work to convey his messages in a mysterious manner to the readers. Meanwhile, Stoker properly establishes the mythology of vampires to help readers appreciate, interpret and analyze the elements of vampirism more efficiently. Stoker writes his novel in such away that

Introduction Abraham "Bram" Stoker was an Irish author, most famous for his novel Dracula. After working as a daily paper writer, Stoker started composing his realistic novel and incorporated the written work abilities he learned. In order to make the novel more genuine, he included journal sections, letters and telegrams to enable the reader to dive further into his characters. ‘Dracula’ is still today a standout amongst the best-known horror stories composed and is considered a classic. Therefore

Abraham “Bram” Stoker was born in Clontarf, Ireland on November 8th, in the year 1847. He had a rough start to life, being rendered bedridden until the age of seven from an unspecified illness. He was very weak as a kid and seldom left his house during childhood. These isolated years he was kept entertained by his mother and the stories she told him. He took particular interest in the tales she shared with him on the 1832 cholera epidemic, a widespread terror that claimed the lives of thousands

thinking of a vampire. Throughout this book Stoker represents the uneasiness of society at the time, including capitalist greed, homosexuality, as well as female sexuality. In the beginning of the novel, Johnathon Harker arrives at the castle of The Count and when first introduced he is in confusion of who he is actually meeting. In the line, “What manner of man is this, or what manner of creature is it in the semblance of man?” (Stoker chp.3,p.48), Stoker is essentially representing the fear of humanity’s

In the 1897 novel “Dracula” by Bram Stoker, a vampire named Count Dracula is brought about and brung into the “real world”. Many stories, books, movies, and games have developed from this novel. In the novel, Dracula has a lot of myths attached to him. These myths are what make him a vampire, and so when other people come up with these new stories or books or movies, they also implement myths into their characters to give them life as a vampire. In every story, most of the characters are considered