Count Dracula Analysis
While Count Dracula is prominently reckoned as an opposition within a methodical society, he can somehow exemplify a potential alteration for oppressed women against the Victorian’s standardized expectations. In the primary introduction of Mina and Lucy’s appearance, the two female characters express a vast ideology of obedient and pure Victorian women. Both of them desire to wholly love and marry whomever they want without feeling oppressed by the expectations that society imposes on them. After Count Dracula corrupts Lucy to become a vampire of her own, her sexual desire commences to expand, and she deviates herself from the norms within the Victorian society. In chapter 15, Dr. Seward anxiously states, “She still advanced, however, and with
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Initially, the Creature suffers discrimination and abstraction within an oppressive society that substantially results in his own seclusion. There is no acceptance in the real world within the Creature’s eyes, and nature becomes inglorious for him instead of providing him tranquility. The real world transmutes into a hellish place, and death is what the Creature desires to conclude his suffering. He solemnly states, “I shall die. I shall no longer feel the agonies which now consume me or be the prey of feelings unsatisfied, yet unquenched. He is dead who called me into being; and when I shall be no more, the very remembrance of us both will speedily vanish” (Shelly 276). In the quote, the Creature senses a tremendous amount of psychological pain that the society imposes on him. He identifies himself as “the prey” instead of a heinous predator. In this moment, death can now be able to remove both Victor’s and his soul from the cruel world. Even though the Creature decides to choose death as a way to eradicate his own sufferings, readers can perceive the notion of balance as he can emancipate himself from the heinous oppression, as Victor Frankenstein is now dead. Victor’s imagery as a perception of oppression is finally overwhelmed. Based on an evaluation of the Creature’s perception of death, there is a relation to Count Dracula’s
Initially, the Creature suffers discrimination and abstraction within an oppressive society that substantially results in his own seclusion. There is no acceptance in the real world within the Creature’s eyes, and nature becomes inglorious for him instead of providing him tranquility. The real world transmutes into a hellish place, and death is what the Creature desires to conclude his suffering. He solemnly states, “I shall die. I shall no longer feel the agonies which now consume me or be the prey of feelings unsatisfied, yet unquenched. He is dead who called me into being; and when I shall be no more, the very remembrance of us both will speedily vanish” (Shelly 276). In the quote, the Creature senses a tremendous amount of psychological pain that the society imposes on him. He identifies himself as “the prey” instead of a heinous predator. In this moment, death can now be able to remove both Victor’s and his soul from the cruel world. Even though the Creature decides to choose death as a way to eradicate his own sufferings, readers can perceive the notion of balance as he can emancipate himself from the heinous oppression, as Victor Frankenstein is now dead. Victor’s imagery as a perception of oppression is finally overwhelmed. Based on an evaluation of the Creature’s perception of death, there is a relation to Count Dracula’s