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The Symbolism Of Blood In The Dracula By Bram Stocker

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Dracula is a cursed vampire. The Dracula by Bram Stocker is about a vampire named Count Dracula who moves from a castle in Transylvania to England in search of victims to drink their blood due to a curse upon him that causes him to want the blood of living humans. The main characters are Count Dracula, Van Helsing, Jonathan Harker, Mina Murray, Lucy Westenra, Arthur Holmwood, and Dr. John Seward. The motif that was revealed in the novel was blood: an essential life force for humans and vampires, the antithesis of the blood of Christ (a Christian religious symbol), Imprisonment, and love.

The first thing I would like to begin with in this essay is how blood was a major part. The reason it was so important in the book is that the blood symbolizes …show more content…

This allowed Dracula to imprison him without an actual jail cell. Dracula would rather take over his victims' lives and tell them where they can and cannot go inside his castle by locking doors. This shows how ones are imprisoned by their own fear and how one can be controlled by fear alone, With love it is the complete opposite The novel shows that love is evil and that love and evil do not mix.

The last is the antithesis of the blood of Christ (a Christian religious symbol). In the novel, it shows how a crucifix keeps Dracula away because it represents the blood of Christ and the sacrifice for mankind and how Christ was killed by crucifixion, and possession of this keeps vampires away. In the novel, we learned this from a passage in the book where Harker prepares to leave the next morning, and the innkeeper's wife delivers him an ominous warning, She reminds him that it is the eve of St. George’s Day, When “all evil things in the world will have full sway” She then gives him a crucifix and places it around his neck This shows that with this symbol that you can keep evil things away from you in terms of Dracula, he was afraid of this symbol so people wore this to keep him

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