Violence In Dracula

Peaceful resistance to laws positively impacts a free society. Rather than having violent movements and harming citizens, it is better to peacefully resist. Once a violence is used, the resistance to the law becomes nulled. People tend to not follow a violence protester. Jonathan Harker is a “quiet, business-like gentleman” (Stoker ) who is very devoted to his fiancée, Mina. However, when the three daughters of Dracula enter his world, he discovers a new side of himself. Without Harker knowing, the three vampire daughters bring out Harker’s sexual desire. When one of the daughters tries to kiss Harker, he “[waits]—[waits] with a beating heart”(Stoker 39). Even when he knew that his attraction towards the sisters would “cause [MIna] pain’ (Stoker

Lucy, by most of the characters, is considered pure and kind. “day to day fashionings of self-identity—there lies a ‘hidden-self’”(Mannion 3a). Although Lucy is pure, she questions one of the virtue of Victorian era - “Why can’t they let a girl marry three men, or as many as want her” (Stoker 60). Her question contradicts her personality and thus, after Dracula turns her into a vampire, her hidden-self emerges where “[her sweetness [turns] to adamantine, heartless cruelty, and the purity to voluptuous wantonness” (Stoker 211). Dracula merely plays as the key to her hidden

He creates an imaginary where Dracula doesn’t have a soul and is not real to the livings. He does not stop to think that it might be the reality of his own self. The notion that the humans in Dracula fear the vampires because he shows them what they really are inside is true because Dracula and the three daughters symbolize the hidden-self of humans. When Jonathan Harker first arrived at Count Dracula’s castle, he saw "tall old man, clean shaven, save for a long white mustache and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of color about him anywhere” (Stoker 16) standing. Thus, Count Dracula’s outfit is colored all black. Other than the color of Count Dracula’s outfit, his physical description was cited. Jonathan described Count Dracula’s face to be “very strong, aquiline, with high bridge of the thin nose and peculiarly arched nostrils, with lofty domed forehead, and hair growing scantily round the temples but profusely elsewhere. His eyebrows were very massive, almost meeting over the nose, and with bushy hair that seemed to curl in its own profusion” (Stoker 18). His mouth is “fixed and rather cruel-looking, with peculiarly sharp white teeth” (Stoker 18). Dracula’s outfit being all black shows that his heart and mind are also black because of the actions that ha takes. He turns Lucy, a pure, innocent girl, into a vampire. This act makes him an