... . Dracula's powers are limited during the light and his powers are stronger in the night, during darkness, which symbolizes evil. Dracula is also portrayed as the Anti-Christ by having similarities with Jesus in an evil way. Sex and erotic behaviour is also a major theme of this text, during the era in which Dracula was released this subject was taboo although it ... licked her lips like an animal ..Lower and lower went her head as the lips went below the range of my mouth and chin and seemed about to fasten on my throat. . . . I closed my eyes in a languorous ecstasy and waited-waited w...

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... the devil's Un-Dead. She is God's true dead, whose soul is with Him! (279). The idea of the damnation of the victim was perhaps the most damaging aspect of the curse of vampirism in past ages. This is notably concurrent to developing cultures' attitudes to rape. In earlier centuries, women who ... nineteenth century, the notion that communities are protected; evil will be displaced and makes the character of Dracula, himself a cold being, " he is brute, and more than brute: he is devil in callous, and the heart of him is not - (304). There is no opportunity for the audience to sympathise...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... described as "strong " and "massive " to an extent that Harker called his presence an "extraordinary pallor " (Stoker 135).  He also quoted "whenever he spoke of his house he always said "we ", and spoke almost in the plural, like a king speaking " (Stoker 137). Being a "count " that he is, ... the horror begins. The nighttime serves as one of the most significant motifs that contribute to the structure of the novel. Readers tend to frightened about the darkness of the night as well as the oblivion that goes along with it. According to one of the protagonist's diary entry, it was explai...

• Word Count: 4287
• Approx Pages: 17
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate