At least god’s mercy is better than that of these monsters, and the precipice is steep and high. At its foot a man may sleep, as a man.” (Stoker 66) The theme of Dracula itself is a battle between good and evil. During the beginning of the novel a foreshadowing of the Counts powers is shown when, Johnathan Harker visits the novels initial setting, Castle Dracula in Transylvania. Count Dracula essentially becomes a representation of evil whereas some characters become major or minor ranks of the undead. Along with the other protagonist they account for the figures of good. Dracula, a book written by Bram Stoker, depicts different characters that portray good and evil. Stoker uses love and innocence as a way to represent the good in people. …show more content…
Renfield, one of the asylum patients represents the evil in the novel. Even though Renfield is almost an exact representation of Count Dracula there is no background that Renfield was ever good. Renfield’s obsession with blood helped emphasis his evil when he attacked Dr. Seward. When he attacked Dr. Seward and cut his wrists he shouted “The blood is life! The blood is life!” (Stoker 151). Ironically Count is the root of all most of the evil that occurs in the novel. He bites Lucy making her immortal which is why Seward says “The sweetness was turned to adamantine, heartless cruelty, and the purity to voluptuous wantonness.”(Stoker 226). This is when Seward realizes Lucy has changed from an angel like figure to evil. The event showed the ultimate evil had power Count Dracula held. After being bit Lucy started her life as evil, she went on to trying to infect children. Although Count did infect Mina, eventually she was able to overcome his evil and return to good. When Johnathan Harker first arrives at Count Dracula he encounters one of the women Count has infected when she nearly tries to drink his blood. “Then she paused, and I could hear the churning sound of her tongue as it licked her teeth and lips, and could feel the hot breath on my neck […] I could feel the soft, shivering touch of the lips on the super-sensitive skin of my throat, and the hard dents of two sharp teeth, just touching and pausing there.”(Stoker 41). At this point in the story the reader does not know the power or evil that Dracula obtains. Throughout the novel the reader and the characters themselves come to the realization of the evil held by Dracula and the amount of lives he has infected with his