Synopsis: Lawyer Jonathan Harker was called to the castle of Count Dracula in Transylvania, where he was staying. There he witnessed the horrific and discovered that his client was a vampire. Luckily, managed to escape the grim fortress and returned to England. Then with the help of Arthur Holmwood, Lord of Godalming, of Dr. John Seward and Professor Van Helsing, has embarked on a relentless battle against the creature of darkness. My review: I loved this book , one of the three great masterpieces of horror literature. However, among them prefer Frankenstein, Mary W. Shelley. Dracula is an exciting book, morose, with moments of action that tensãoe intertwine so well punctuated; epistolary narrative structure gives it a unique character, addressing different points of view. Are excerpts from the journals of meeting Jonathan Harker and Mina Harker, if I remember correctly also notes dr. Van Helsing, and even newspaper reports. But the work lacks a certain density - "scarcity" common in the books of the Romantic period - as well as a complexity / ambiguity psychological - that have Frankenstein. Dracula
brings good or bad characters, the writer of a coated work contents extremely Manichean - despite the temptation to address, sex, sin and guilt, symbolized by the figure of evil and demonic but enticing, sensual vampire. Perhaps the greatest "draft" of the novel is to represent the struggle between virtue and sin, good and evil, God and the Devil, through the "war" between the Christian characters and Dracula and his minions . Another caveat about my Dracula is that the book was an outcome abrupt, poorly finished.
Dracula is certainly a religious figure, God-fearing, but would have no fear, the "Sacred." He just broke off relations with God, Lucifer as a human. The "Immaculate" and "Sacred" really always go together, like two plates of a scale. What I want to highlight here are the different conceptions of the vampire, and the Manichaean religious context and developed by Stoker - he was a staunch Christian. Someone far from religious beliefs can love. Anyone is capable of love. But perhaps the design of Bram Stoker's Dracula as a cursed being, the incarnation of evil, probably can not be touched by love, taken as a divine influence. Review written
on 06/03/2009.
Debate over the work.
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