Textual Reading/ Literary Analysis on "Dracula" Essay Example
Kevin Vang
Textual Reading/ Literary Analysis
Audience: classmates who argues that “Dracula” is not a Gothic genre
Purpose: to show them that “Dracula” is a perfectly good example of Gothic genre “Dracula” a novel by Bram Stoker, deals with vampire folklore, Christian beliefs, and mostly gothic elements. Gothic elements are tremendous in this novel as it is seen a lot throughout the novel. The components of classic gothic elements as seen in “Dracula” includes the setting of the novel, the tone, a villainous character, and the fact that there is a hero that is struggling against an inescapable fate. Bram Stoker uses gothic elements such as isolated settings, gloom and doom, and secret passages in Dracula in which portray it to be an excellent gothic genre in relations to Jane Eyre, a novel by Charlotte Bronte. Stoker uses isolated settings to perpetuate fear of the unknown. Just like telling myths, stories, and grim tales, inside of each kind, there are always those spooky, mysterious, and petrifying “things” that makes everyone go nuts over it. For example, a haunted house, the basement, or the forest all in which creates terror and fear of what is lurking around these settings. In “Dracula,” Stoker creates this sensational feeling of isolation: the fear of the unknown. Here we see Jonathan traveling to Transylvania to Count Dracula’s mansion. Jonathan had wrote that, “…the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the moonlit sky (pg.18)” literally meaning that this was no ordinary location within the bounds of society as we see “vast ruined castle.” Moreover as well as the “tall black windows [which] came no ray of light” which intensify the gist of isolation pertaining to human society as well as nature aspects because it shuts one out on human contact and also, the fact that one is going to
Textual Reading/ Literary Analysis
Audience: classmates who argues that “Dracula” is not a Gothic genre
Purpose: to show them that “Dracula” is a perfectly good example of Gothic genre “Dracula” a novel by Bram Stoker, deals with vampire folklore, Christian beliefs, and mostly gothic elements. Gothic elements are tremendous in this novel as it is seen a lot throughout the novel. The components of classic gothic elements as seen in “Dracula” includes the setting of the novel, the tone, a villainous character, and the fact that there is a hero that is struggling against an inescapable fate. Bram Stoker uses gothic elements such as isolated settings, gloom and doom, and secret passages in Dracula in which portray it to be an excellent gothic genre in relations to Jane Eyre, a novel by Charlotte Bronte. Stoker uses isolated settings to perpetuate fear of the unknown. Just like telling myths, stories, and grim tales, inside of each kind, there are always those spooky, mysterious, and petrifying “things” that makes everyone go nuts over it. For example, a haunted house, the basement, or the forest all in which creates terror and fear of what is lurking around these settings. In “Dracula,” Stoker creates this sensational feeling of isolation: the fear of the unknown. Here we see Jonathan traveling to Transylvania to Count Dracula’s mansion. Jonathan had wrote that, “…the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in the courtyard of a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the moonlit sky (pg.18)” literally meaning that this was no ordinary location within the bounds of society as we see “vast ruined castle.” Moreover as well as the “tall black windows [which] came no ray of light” which intensify the gist of isolation pertaining to human society as well as nature aspects because it shuts one out on human contact and also, the fact that one is going to