Dracula Essay

Dracula Essay

1. In Dracula, by Bram Stoker, religion and superstition in the Victorian Era are used to protect and save the characters.

   • During this era, people were very religous, and in this book, the characters used religon to protect themselves.
     • "When we started, the crowd round the inn door, which had by this time swelled to a considerable size, all made the sign of the cross, and pointed two fingers towards me" (Stoker 14).
     • "As he placed the wafer on Mina's forhead, it had seared it- had burned, burned into the flesh as though it had been a hot piece of metal" (Stoker 327).
     • "She then rose and dried her eyes, and taking the crucifix from her neck offered it to me" (Stoker 7).
   • In this time, superstition was very prominent, and was used to try to save the characters.
     • "I read that every known superstition in the world is gathered into the horseshoe of the Carpatians, as if it were the centre of some sort of imaginative whirlpool; if so my stay may be very interesting" (Stoker 2).
     • "'It is the eve of St. George's Day. Do you not know that tonight, when the clock strikes midnight, all the evil things in the world will have full sway? Do you know where you are going, and what you are going to?'"(Stoker 9).
     • "He came back with a handful of wild garlic from the box waiting in the hall, but which had not been opened, and placed the flowers amongst the others on and around the bed" (Stoker 179).