Bram Stoker’s, Dracula is a classic gothic horror novel with a very unique style. Stoker tells his tale through many different characters, he uses journals, newspaper articles, and letters between his characters to craft his tale. He is able to compose a complex tale by weaving together many different narratives. Though one crucial narrative is excluded by Stoker, Dracula himself never takes the role of narrator. He is portrayed as a demon and inhuman beast that seeks to destroy all that is pure and good. He is not described as handsome, but rather he is old and has animalist traits that are dominate. He is the predator. The beast that mothers tell their children about to ensure they do not wander about after dark. Stoker, like many writers in his day presented vampires as soulless monsters that viewed humans as prey. …show more content…
She is buried and awakes as a monster, she is feeding on the children of the area like a parasite. Van Helsing states they must behead her and stake her through the heart to truly lay her to rest. “When Lucy- I call the thing that was before us Lucy because it bore her shame-saw us she drew back with an angry snarl, such as a cat gives” her Lucy or rather her body is described like and animal very much like Dracula is described by Johnathan when he first encounters the count (Stoker 181). Lucy’s eyes are described as “full of hell-fire” and her gaze once innocent and pure is hateful and evil. It is at this moment that the men who were once the human Lucy’s lovers realize the beast before them is void of the soul that made Lucy who she was. The tale told during this error revealed that vampires and other monsters were soulless demons. Animal like predators that saw humans as nothing more than prey. This is the literary convention that Stocker applied to his work. Literary conventions of Stockers time concerning vampires classified them as the villain and a