Symbols In Bram Stoker's Dracula

Dracula's message and theme

The words of dracula mean more than is read by most. The Symbols throughout Dracula, have often been thought to mean many diffrent things throughout history. It is believed by most that a large number of the themes are catholic oriented, Which is very understandable due to the books time period and what the book consists of. Also a number of the symbols stood against females being anything but a mother or wife. The battle of good versus evil, in this book, stood for much more than most would pick up, saying that God will protect you and that Christianity will always combat the evils of the world. The constant theme of blood througout the book also shows it connection to the Bible and Jesus. The charachter of Dracula is actually
During the novel you can tell that Victorian women were looked upon as either one of these, either a wife and a mother, pure, or a harlot. This was shown by the concept of good and evil in the book which centered around female sexuality. The Wierd sisters ,in the book, Represented the incorporationof the dreamand nightmares of the Victorian man's imagination of of sexually aggressive woman. The men desired the sister because they were not accepted by society in a social or moral way during this age thanks to thier open sexuality. The weird sister are made to fufill a man of the victourian ages every want. for instance when the offer harker sexual favors so much so in two paragraphs that not even his wife to be is comparable in this way. Because the women who are exceptionally over aggresive, such as the wierd sisters, threathen to ruin the male-dominated society they must be destroyed in the novel.Also the fact that dracula flees england to go back to his homeland using the boat named after a well known ,for her promicuious behavior, empress of Russia named Czarina