Stoker uses the characters,such a Mina and Lucy to portray women as embodiments of goodness and Dracula as the evil. In these notions, Stroker reflects Victorian ideas of womanhood and then, the true desire of society, sexuality. In times of Victorian era sexuality is a fragile subject, a topic that is subject to much scrutiny. Dracula is largely criticized for the sexual influence it has throughout it's works. Sigmond Frued's influence is apparent through Stroker's use of characters. Van Helsing and Dr.Steward a

This is a very personal sense and brings the reader to feel close and connected with the story line, almost a part of it. Through the other characters opinions and descriptions we are coaxed into negative feelings that the title character Dracula, although his appearance in the text are few, is an deeply evil and horrible creature. The reader is then immediately brought to the awareness of the threat of his supernatural presence, throughout the novel, an example of this is in a quote from the text describing Dracula's unnatural presence, the description is from Harker at his first encounter with the Count; "His eyes were positively blazing. The red light in them was lurid, as if the flames of hell-fire blazed behind them. His face was deathly pale, and the lines of it were hard like drawn wires, the thick eyebrows that met over the nose now seemed like a heaving bar of white hot metal, "(Harker pg.40). Even the human and moral characters within each character, are characteristic whose presence give the reader comfort as they can relate each charcteristic to some in their lives. Stoker's characters like Jonathan Harker, the young English lawyer, who is sent to his firm to transylvania to complete a real estate agreement with Dracula, is a strong willed man and despire his physical weakness, compared to that of Dracula ,he still continues to fight against all odds to protect Mina from Dracula. Now once Jonhathan arrives at the count castle, the count seems welcoming and insist for him to stay longer to teach him about English customs.....eventually Jonathan becomes aware that he is actually a prisoner and barely escapes with his life. The reader is soon aware of the relationships between the characters, and their attention is firstly brought to the relationship between Jonathan and Mina. Mina Murray is Jonathan's fiancee and later into the novel they wed, Mina is the heroine she is presented as a practical woman, working as a school teacher. In Victorian times this was the embodiment of the new age housewife, this is almost inspiring to a reader of those times. Mrs. Mina has such an intellectual impact on the novel, that is quite impossible for a women not to feel a pang of inspiration. These things connect us to each character, for the simple reality that Stoker has set up his system of letters and journal to enable us to know alot more about the story line then each charcter. He takes a step out and instead of writing in third person omniesient directly, he uses a personal approach, to still let audience in on all the secrets, but yet, to be out of the big picture.

Possibly the most terrifying aspect of Bram Stoker's, Dracula, is The Count's mocking of Christianity. Indeed, Dracula seems to be a total opposite of Christ and Christian values. He is driven purely by desire and lust, showing his demonic soul througha fire that one sees burning in his eyes. Despite these opposites, Stoker repeatedly uses biblical imagery and references to compare Dracula to Christ, creating deliberate counteractions throughout the novel. Stoker sets up his story to clearly show the conflict between established Victorian society and the changes that were beginning to occur during his time. By using the vampire hunters to embody Victorian morality then Dracula to symbolize a challenge to those ideals, Stoker creates a battle between good and evil, ending with the defeat of Dracula and a return to the proper. While appearing to be a typical horror story that embodies the ideals of Stoker's society, it is the opposite that he cleverly implies. Through his use of twisted biblical passages and allusions, Stoker transforms a repressive story of Victorian "good" conquering over "evil", into an ideologically liberating criticism of the status quo. To begin to understand Stoker's ideological implications, one must first understand the roles of each side of the overall conflict. The vampire hunters represent the "big picture" of the Victoria

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