Dracula Vs Anne Rice

’s Vampire Chronicles Essay, Research Paper

Bram Stoker.s Dracula and Anne Rice.s series The Vampire Chronicles

are books about vampires. The way the two authors write about the vampires.

powers, the way they live and how they are created and destroyed prove that two

books about the same subject can be different in many ways. It also shows how the

vampire legend has evolved over a long period of time.

Special powers are used in both of the authors writings. A few of the

powers are the same, or very close to it, in each account. enhaced or super-human

strenth is one of these abilites. On page 7 in Anne Rice.s book The Vampire

Lestat, her main chacter Lestast says .As for my strength, well it was three times

what it had once been. I could bend a copper penny double.. After becoming a

vampire he notices his super human strength. Not much is written about Stoker.s

use of super-strength for Count DraculaTherefore, One tends to believe that

Dracula in fact did not have enhanced strength. Stoker did use the power of

morphing into animals in his novel. In Dracula , the Count can morph into a bat

and he can turn into a greyish-green mist. He uses these powers so humans dont

detect his presence. As a gas he can pass by humans without them even noticing

and as a bat he can cover more ground in a shorter amount of time. Rice.s novels

mention nothing of being able to morph into a bat, mist or anything else for that

matter.

The ability to fly is used in each novel but they are used very differently. In Dracula

the count can fly but, in order to do this he must turn into a bat and fly as a bat would fly.

More powerful vampires in The Vampire Chronicles can fly as , for example, super man

would fly. In order for a vampire to fly it requires lots of energy and a great force of will

Lestat says . It was as if a current of air had caught me. I went up hundereds of feet in one

instant, and then the clouds were below me-a white light that I could scarcely see. I decided

to drift.. (Rice, Queen of the damned 286)

Mental powers are used extensivly in both of the authors. creations. Mind reading is

common in The Vampire Chronicles. Vampires in the Chronicles can not read the minds of

vampires they themselves have created or minds that are skillfully cloaked against them.

Being able to read the minds of mortals allows them to manipulate their victims. They can

also hypnotize and scramble the thoghts of mortals, as when Lestat takes a drink from a

victim and makes so that she will not remember it. When speaking with one another and

when giving their powerful blood, they can provide full-blown images of their past

experiences. Vampires can move objects at will, such as when they open doors or locks, or

when shoving another vampire away without touching them. .When I saw he wouldn.t

move, my anger and out of me like an invisible fist. And I saw him moved backwards as if

the fist had struck him.. (Rice, The vampire Lestat 265) In Dracula hypnotism is

mentioned. This is where the phrase .look into my eyes. was probably coined from. Like

Lestat, Dracula has the ability to change the will of other people. In Dracula , Jonathen

Harker is a guest in the counts castle. After a while Jonathen becomes suapicious of the

counts activities. He then becomes scared and uncomfortable and he wants to leave .

Through will changing the count makes Jonathen feel comfortable and he unknowingly

keeps him as a prisoner. The powers of the vampires mildly differs between the two

authors. Obviously Rice, because she wrote an entire series of novels not just one, has

more space to descibe the indivdual abilities of the main vampires in her series. Stoker on

the other hand wrote only one book about Dracula therfore his chacter is described in less

detail than are Rices.

The vampires way of life, unlike special abilities, is a great source of conflict. The

modern age Anne Rice and the classic old english Bram Stoker have different views on the

settings, travel, contact with people and other vampires, and the way the vampires feel and

express emotions in their novels.

What comes to your mind when you think of the words .vampire country.. If you

thought of castles in the middle of nowhere and countries with names you cant even

pronounce let alone know where they are, then Bram Stoker doesnt dissappoint you.

Stoker.s novel takes place in and around Transylvania . Raymond McNally says of

Transylvania .At first, like many americans, I assumed that this was some mythical place. I

found out , however , that it is a province, a historical region of western Romania bounded

by the Carpathian mountains. (McNally 1). The eerie atmosphere adds to the mystery of

the story. In Transylvania Count Dracula resides in huge, stone castle. The castle has

come to be known as Castle Dracula . In Dracula , Johnathen Harker writes in his journal

.I was not able to light on an

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