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The True Villain In Bram Stoker's Dracula

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In Bram Stoker’s story, the obvious villain here is Dracula. Unlike Frankenstein, Dracula appears to obtain no humane like qualities. From the start of the novel Dracula only had one thing on his mind, and that was drinking the blood of innocent victims. By drinking their blood, Dracula would become rejuvenated and fresh again “For the eyes were open and stony, but without the glassiness of death-and the cheeks had the warmth of life through all their pallor; the lips were as red as ever” (Stoker 57). Dracula uses the blood of other innocent people for his own selfish desires, and then uses the handsome and youthful qualities he obtains from this blood and lures in more innocent victims. The motive to all of this is just to obtain absolute power, while Jonathan is locked up in the tower he imagines what it would be like if Dracula were to be walking the streets “This was the being I was helping transfer to London, where, perhaps, for centuries to come he might, amongst its teeming millions, satiate his lust for blood, and create a new and ever widening circle of semi-demons to batten on the helpless” (Stoker 60-61). …show more content…

Unlike Frankenstein, it is very difficult as a reader to feel pity for Dracula. In this story, Dracula is the definition of a true villain. As a character, he is pure evil. He kills purely because he knows that he can and even takes enjoyment out of corrupting and toying with his victims, we see this especially with Jonathan Harker. What is also very interesting is that in this story, the reader is not given any mental weaknesses that Dracula may possess. Whereas Frankenstein has many weaknesses, such as his emotions, which could be used against him. Dracula shows no ounce of feelings at all really, whereas Frankenstein is practically pouring out his

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