How has the figure of Dracula changed since the novel was released?
How has the figure of Dracula changed since the novel was released?
I am writing a paper on how Dracula has changed since Bram Stokers novel was published to now. He was feared by many in the 1900 but now modern day he really is not much. I just need help on how he really has become nothing to many people.
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Answer by shikyo ookami
since dracula is a vampire (well derr) in Stokers novel hes this big freakin scary guy ( I think , havent read it) but over time vampires have now began being big wimpy shining pussys >.>
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4. The film plays up any homosexuality.
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Well, he has become a very attractive anti-hero, people seem to see him as representative of a wronged minority. He was seriously scary in the book. and the depiction of the vampire in Nosferatu was so scary.
Most recently vampire leader guys are just pouty emo guys who constantly bemoan their fate just live in a tedious state of angst over their own nature.. Kinda boring- read Brian Lumley’s Necroscope Series.
Those are some serious scary mean vampires!
Almost everything people “think” they know about Dracula comes from the 1921 stage play and the 1931 movie.
They bear only the slightest resemblence to Stoker’s original book.
Dracula in the novel was seductive and suave but feral and dangerous in that way. He was DEFINITELY not human.
That was actually Lugosi’s genius in the original Browning movie: He was an animal.
There was a whole genre of novels and novelettes in the fifties and sixties which took off from the mythologies of the Universal movies. Most of them were written by old pulp writers or SF/Fantasy pros like Robert Lory and Fred Saberhagen — who continued his series till his death just a few years ago. Most of these were rationalists. They could handle seductive and suave, but didn’t really understand feral. Dangerous? Who doesn’t understand killers. But the danger was lesser because this was a dracula who could NOT kill.
And things developed from there. Ann Rice’s interview with a vampire was another milestone in the series, because Lestat was as sexual as he was bisexual.