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Dracula by Bram Stoker

Introduction

Dracula - the persona needs no introduction. It's the king of the vampires, which greatly kindled the imagination of writers and filmmakers from around the world. Gaunt man with rings under his eyes, long nails, male pattern baldness and a pair of tusks protruding brought to consciousness readership Irish writer Bram Stoker, publishing in 1897 a novel about consuming human blood vampire who resided in a mysterious Carpathian castle. Stoker to create his "bible vampirism", used some of the themes of the classic gothic novel mainstream, also referred to Slavic folklore and legends of a cruel ruler of Transylvania, Romania. Thus was born, Dracula - the most famous of vampires, who in the twentieth century, massively populated horror novels and horror movies (Raven, et. al., pp. 125-31).

Dracula would be the only player who is not - Dead, the leader of the vampires who had thinning hair at the temples but abundant in the rest of the head. His eyebrows, very thick, almost came together. The firm was a cruel thing, with sharp teeth and singularly white, came out above the lip, the red denoting an astonishing vitality for a man of his years. For the rest, his ears were pale extremely sharp at the top, his chin was broad and strong. He was extremely pale color. As for psychological traits was not - Dead of the most gruesome and cruel. At first form looks good but you read the book you begin to realize that it is not, but it is the opposite, a despicable and cruel which the antagonists must "kill". It is self-centered and thinks everything revolves around him (Stoker & Hebblethwaite, pp. 211-16). The book says its main prey is women of which are "love" and not leave until the end. It pardons the expression a "disgusting", or at least that was the impression I got when I read the book.

Discussion

Novel's Theme

The basic theme of the novel, the main, which is subdivided into the mortal and the immortal Dracula on one side and women representing the immortal vampire and antagonists on the other side and the side representing the mortal although people of the 2nd group throughout the novel pass to 1. Dracula is the one that most closely is linked to this issue because he has the ability to kill or immortality and also because it is the protagonist. On the other hand those who are more closely related, are the two that took the lives of Dracula (Morris and Jonathan), although the latter two in a more indirect. One could say that the more kills more lives, i.e. is rejuvenated.

Nocturnality: Is another very interesting topic in the novel, because the most important scenes occurred at night because if vampires can only remember the "awakening" or remain active at night and this makes most of the novel proceed for the night. Dracula would be the closest one would be on this issue, because his life is spent at night but this time the other vampires to be linked and to some ...