MARXISM VIEW ON BRAM STOKERS DRACULA
Bram Stoker's novel Dracula is a mystifying horror story that occurred sometime in the late nineteenth century, where a young English lawyer takes an excursion to Count Dracula located in Transylvania, in hopes of finalizing a real estate transfer. The novel portrays a gross representation of Anti-Christian values and beliefs, through one of its characters. Dracula one of the main characters in the novel is used to take on the characteristics of the Anti-Christ. Stoker uses many beliefs from the Christian religion to refer to, in order to display numerous amounts of Anti-Christian values and perversions, superstitious beliefs of the protection towards evil, and to compare and contrast the powers of God with those of Dracula. It is a theme that is used throughout the entire book, as Stoker uses more and more beliefs from Christianity as the novel lengthens. There are many ways that Bram Stoker's character Dracula can be considered the Anti-Christ, mostly because of the 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 he tells them where he is going. They cross themselve
Dracula has several powers that the Christian's believe none but God could control. For instance, Dracula can control the weather, wild, or unclean animals and he can change form and disappear into thin air. The characters in the novel group together to see how "the general powers arrayed against us can be controlled and to consider the limitations of the vampire"[307]. Christians believe that consuming God's body and blood will give them everlasting life with God in heaven. Dracula is getting life after death or living an afterlife on earth by consuming the blood of the living to survive and to 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 by destroying their souls. As it can be said that you must let God into your heart, Dracula may not enter someone's home unless they let him in. Throughout the book several times, normally while Reinfield is speaking whenever he refers to God he capitalizes his pronoun as Christians would do when referring to God. When Lucy is brought into 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 limi
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Approximate Pages = 5 (250 words per page double spaced)
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