Dracula
There are many ways that Bram Stoker's Dracula can be considered Anti-Christian by showing of Anti-Christian values and perversions of the Christian religion. In chapter one as Jonathan Harker is traveling to Castle Dracula he is met by several people. When he meets these people andtells them where he is going they cross themselves along with doing several other superstiscious actions. One of the women he meets gives him a crucifix to protect him on his journey. This crucifix protects him when Jonathan cuts himself shaving and Dracula lunges for his throat he stops when hesees the crucifix around Jon's neck. Later in the book it discusses how you can defend yourself fromDracula and other vampires by the possession of a crucifix or practically any consecrated item fromthe Christian religion can be used to save you from the attack or presence of a vampire. For example, in the latter of the book Van Helsing uses a Host to prevent Dracula to enter his coffin. Another time, during the night Van Helsing and Lucy stay out near the courtyard of Castle Dracula, Van Helsing makes a (Holy circle) with the Host to keep vampires out and to keep Mina safe in the (Holy circle). Another time when the Host is used as a deterrence of vampires is at
the time Van Helsing and the other men are going to leave Mina alone in the house. Van Helsing touches a Host to Mina's forehead and it burns into her head since she, herself, was unclean. Another abstruction of the Christian religion would be the fact that Dracula sleeps in a coffin and especially because the dirt in his coffin is consecrated and Dracula, being evil, uses this ground to rest in. Dracula has several of the powers that Christians believe no one but God could control. For instance, Dracula can control the weather, wild or unclean animals and, he can change form and disappear into the air. Christians believe that consuming God's body and blood will give them everlasting life with God in heaven. Draculagetting life after death or living an afterlife on earth by consuming the blood of the living to survive, build his strength, and create more followers of him in his evil ways. By this, Dracula is relying on humans to renew his life after death and thus not concentrating on God as the source of life. As Dracula feeds on the blood of the living he creates followers as Jesus had disciples. Dracula has evil ways and spreads his evil not by sexual reproduction as God meant it to be but he takes the living and makes their lives evil destroying their souls. As it can be said that you must let God into your heart Dracula may only enter someone's home unless they let him in. Throughout the book, several times, normally while Renfield is speaking whenever he refers to God he capitalizes his pronouns as Christians would do when referring to God. When Lucy is brought in to the Un-Dead she rises from the dead three days after she dies as Jesus rose from the dead on Easter Sunday. God has no beginning and no one can explain how he came about ; there is the same idea with Dracula that he(has been) and no one knows his beginning. God is looked at and referred to in the Bible as being the light which symbolizes happiness or life. Dracula's powers are limited in the daytime, during the light, and his powers are stronger in the night, during darkness, which symbolizes evil. In the book, Draculamoves to an old abandoned Church not used anymore which can show that God is no longer
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Approximate Word count = 1475
Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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