MARXISM VIEW ON BRAM STOKERS DRACULA
Bram Stoker's novel Dracula is a mystifying horror story that occurred sometime in the late nineteenth century, where a young English lawyer takes an excursion to Count Dracula located in Transylvania, in hopes of finalizing a real estate transfer. The novel portrays a gross representation of Anti-Christian values and beliefs, through one of its characters. Dracula one of the main characters in the novel is used to take on the characteristics of the Anti-Christ. Stoker uses many beliefs from the Christian religion to refer to, in order to display numerous amounts of Anti-Christian values and perversions, superstitious beliefs of the protection towards evil, and to compare and contrast the powers of God with those of Dracula. It is a theme that is used throughout the entire book, as Stoker uses more and more beliefs from Christianity as the novel lengthens. There are many ways that Bram Stoker's character Dracula can be considered the Anti-Christ, mostly because of the showing of Anti-Christian values and perversions of the Christian religion. In chapter one as Jonathan Harker is traveling to Castle Dracula he is met by several people. When he meets these people he tells them where he is going. They cross themselve
Bram Stoker turned Dracula into an interesting novel which left me curious and full of questions of religion. You really need to sit down and put this book into perspective, and ask yourself what the real meaning behind its publishing a character like Dracula was. Throughout the book several times, normally while Reinfield is speaking whenever he refers to God he capitalizes his pronoun as Christians would do when referring to God. God has no beginning and no one can explain how he came about; there is the same idea with Dracula that he (has been) and no one knows his beginning. For all of these reasons I think that the character Dracula is in himself Anti-Christian and could be easily considered the Anti-Christ. At this point Jonathan realizes that Dracula is what he is, an immortal being that can't be destroyed for now. Dracula's powers are limited in the daytime, during the light and his powers are stronger in the night, during darkness, which symbolizes evil. All of these examples are abstractions to the Christian Religion, in which some forms of Christian beliefs are used to deter the attack of the character Dracula. Another time during the night Van Helsing and Lucy stay out near the courtyard of Castle Dracula; Van Helsing makes a (Holy Circle) with the Hosts to keep vampires out and to keep Mina safe in the (Holy Circle). "I love the shade and the shadow," Dracula says; "I am no longer young; and my heart, through years of mourning over the dead, is not attuned to mirth"[36]. Another example of one of the superstitious acts is in the latter of the book when Van Helsing uses a Host to prevent Dracula from entering his coffin. As it can be said that you must let God into your heart, Dracula may not enter someone's home unless they let him in. Dracula has several powers that the Christian's believe none but God could control. A superstition of most is that a rosary will protect you from all evil, and in this novel the evil party is Dracula and his followers. God keep me, if only for the sake of those dear to me"[29].
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