Dracula And Evil Essay Research Paper Be

Dracula And Evil Essay, Research Paper

Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good. . Romans. XII. 21 Evil

often triumphs, but never conquers. . Joseph Roux The two quotations from

above explain that evil never conquers because good always overcomes it. A good

example of this is the book Dracula by Bram Stoker because the author expresses

the nature of good vs. evil. Dracula wants to come to London because he wants to

turn everyone into vampires. The basic background of the book Dracula is when

Jonathan Harker, a realtor who is sent to Transylvania to complete a transaction

with Dracula so he can come to England. What Harker does not know is that

Dracula has a plan for world domination. Well, while Harker is on a train to

Transylvania he enters .the east, a section of Europe whose peoples and

customs will be for the most part, strange and unfamiliar. (Dracula, 20).

Harker arrives at Bistritz on the eve of St. George.s Day, .a night when

evil things in the world have full sway. (Dracula, 21). When Harker first sees

this, he is unconcerned about these superstitions. Then he sees something that

is very peculiar. An old woman is very afraid of the word .Dracula.. She

offers Harker a gift of rosary to protect him of evil spirits. After she gives

him the rosary, he starts to feel uncomfortable going to the Borgo pass on the

following day. The Borgo pass is very important because this is the place where

Dracula.s carriage will await Harker. Well on the next day, a crowd of

peasants gather around the carriage mumbling linguist words that seem to have

some kind of link to the word vampire. Then the .whole crowd makes the sign of

the cross and point two fingers at Harker. (Dracula, 30), to wish him a safe

journey. When the carriage dashes by the country peasants, they knell and cross

themselves. Until this point Jonathan Harker does not know the .Dracula

beckons Harker into his castle and into a horrifying adventure with the

supernatural. (Lidston 546). The only evil character in this book is Dracula,

.an old man and is clean shaven, except for a long white Victorian mustache

and he is clad all in black. (Dracula, 55). .He speaks in perfect English

and welcomes Harker inside, shaking his hand with an ice-cold, vice-like grip.

(Dracula, 55). Dracula explains to him that he will no be able to make the trip

to London, but one of his trusted servants will be going along with Harker back

to London. After supper Jonathan analyzes Dracula and notices one very strange

feature, his mouth is thick and white; they cover sharp white teeth, which stick

out over his lip. What Jonathan does not know is that those teeth are canine

teeth only found in animals. There are exceptions, for instance, vampires have

these teeth so they can puncture the human.s carotid vessel in their neck and

suck their blood. The first time that Jonathan sees Dracula.s cannibal teeth

grow is when Harker starts shaving. He accidentally cuts himself and Dracula

leaps for his throat so he can suck his blood. Harker touches his crucifix and

Dracula.s .demonic fury. vanishes. The strangest event that Harker notices

in Dracula.s castle is .Dracula emerge from his room on the floor below,

slither out, head downward, in lizard fashion, with his cloak spread out around

him like great wings. (Dracula, 179). This shows that .Dracula is not a

person. He is a presence, an absence that requires concealing. (Wolf, 368).

This tells Harker that something is very wrong with this man. He recalls how the

peasants behaved very strangely. Then he recalls how the woman acted when she

heard the word .Dracula,. and after that Harker knows that this man is the

fearful demon known as Count Dracula. To make sure that this man is actually a

vampire who is known to be evil, he plans to encounter Dracula when it is

daytime. Harker goes to Dracula.s room and notices that his room is empty

except for a door that is partially opened. Harker goes downstairs into a

basement-like area and a stench of death makes Harker almost vomit. At the

bottom of the stairs, Harker finds fifty coffins filled with earth. In one of

the coffins he finds Dracula. Jonathan said that it looked as if Dracula.s

youth was renewed. Then Jonathan saw a very repulsive sight, Dracula had a blood

in his mouth and a trickle of blood on his lip. Harker then finds a shovel and

starts to slash at Dracula but after all those slashes he notices that it only

grazed his forehead. He gets so scared that he runs upstairs and while on the

first floor of the castle he starts to hear coffins start to open. Harker

realizes that he can no longer stay in this evil damned castle. This is the

beginning .of the migration to England with the design of populating the

country with fellow vampires. (Lovecraft 458). The heroes who play a major

role in killing Dracula and ending his master plan to take ov

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