Essay - Vampires as Folklore Legend in Bram Stoker's Dracula Introduction the...

vampires as folklore legend in Bram Stoker's Dracula

Introduction

The legend of vampires and the blood sucking is one ***** the most popular themes today among contemporary novels; however, it ***** apparent that while these new novels subsist to the idea of vampires and impalement (draining someone's *****), ***** novel ***** by Bram Stoker is the most effective ***** interesting novel discussing ***** topic ***** vampires ***** a folklore legend. Dr*****cula was first published in the year 1897, and ***** written by Stoker, who, aside from being a writer, is also ***** manager of the actor Sir Henry Irving (Merritt 1991 906). The novel's story revolves around the main character of Count Dracula, a noble of Tr*****nsylvania, which ***** a region in Rom*****nia (***** 1991 319). The story is based on ***** vampire ***** of Vlad Tepes, a pr*****ce from W*****lachia during the 1400s (Miller 1997). It was said that the prince resorted to the method of killing its enemies by impalement, a process wherein the victim's blood is entirely sucked out of ***** body. The novel ***** this method of ***** as one of its central *****, aside ***** the terrorizing character of the vampire Dracula. Stoker used the ***** ***** using journal entries, correspondence and various notes in narrating the ***** to the reader. Rather than adapting a direct n*****rration of the story, the novel was made more interesting by accompanying clippings from newspapers and o*****r memos, which gives the readers a ***** personal encounter of each character in the novel.

***** basic plot ***** the st*****y started when Jonathan Harker, one of the primary *****s in the novel, has learned of Count Dracula's real identity, which is ***** of a vampire, who terrorizes his town by continually feeding on unsuspecting victims, specifically women and children. Harker's involvement with Dracula ***** fur*****r brought in closer with the death ***** his fiancee's (M*****a Murray) best friend, Lucy Westerna. Lucy was to become a v*****mpire, too, having met her ***** to give way for her birth as a 'new' v*****mpire. ***** became even more dangerous because of ***** transfer from Transylvania to modern England, most specifically in London, where he would have better and far ***** victims ***** terrorize and corrupt. In a resolve to stop the danger of increasing ***** kind in the city, ***** to keep ***** Harker's fiancee, Mina, who ***** become his wife, from becoming a v*****mpire, Harker, along ***** ***** characters of Quincey Morris, Dr. John Seward, and Professor Abraham Van Helsing, they set ***** a plan to kill the vampire. At the end of the novel, Dracula finally dies just be*****e the sun goes down, and finally, Mina is free ***** the threat of becoming a *****.

***** ***** focuses on a number of themes such as vampirism and impalement. Another important theme is the importance ***** folklore legends, sex, and erotic*****m in the length of ***** ***** story. However, this paper will discuss three central themes, which are common recurrences and are the