Dracula - Wikipedia
Dracula is a 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker.An epistolary novel and a classic of English literature, the narrative is related through letters, diary entries, and newspaper articles.It has no single protagonist and opens with solicitor Jonathan Harker taking a business trip to stay at the castle of a Transylvanian nobleman, Count Dracula.
Count Dracula - Wikipedia
As Dracula slowly drains Lucy's blood, she dies from acute blood loss and later transforms into a vampire, despite the efforts of Seward and Van Helsing to provide her with blood transfusions. [ 33 ] He is aided by powers of necromancy and divination of the dead, that all who die by his hand may reanimate and do his bidding.
The Blood of Four Strong Men: Dracula and The Portrayal of Blood ...
2022年10月31日 · In 1818, Blundell would perform the first recorded human to human blood transfusion. His work popularized blood transfusion as a treatment; although still controversial, other physicians would also begin to perform transfusions. By the 1897 publication of Dracula, then, blood transfusion was known as a possible, though still fraught, treatment.
Bram Stoker, Dracula, and the Birth of the Vampire
2023年10月5日 · Why vampires drink blood. Human blood is essentially vampire food. But for Stoker’s Count Dracula, it was also a life force of another kind. He begins the novel as an elderly man; as he drinks blood, he ages in reverse.
Count Dracula | Dracula Wiki - Fandom
Dracula begins to visit Lucy's bed chamber on a nightly basis, draining her of blood while simultaneously infecting her with the curse of vampirism. Not knowing the cause for Lucy's deterioration, her companions call upon the Dutch doctor Van Helsing, the former mentor of one of Lucy's suitors.
Dracula (novel by Bram Stoker) - Encyclopedia Britannica
2024年12月17日 · Dracula is a novel by Bram Stoker published in 1897. Derived from vampire legends, it became the basis for an entire genre of literature and film. It follows the vampire Count Dracula from his castle in Transylvania to England, where he is …
‘The Blood is the Life’: Dracula and 19th-Century Transfusions
2019年9月27日 · First published in 1897, Dracula predates physician Karl Landsteiner’s discovery of blood type cross-matching by several years, and, like the contemporary science the novel immortalizes in its pages, it never mentions whether the four transfusions Lucy receives are compatible ones. Instead, Stoker tells his readers that it is male vitality ...
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One evening, when Harker shaves he is startled by Dracula, whose likeness is not reflected in the mirror. From shock, Harker cuts his neck and Dracula reacts strangely to the blood. When Harker turns, Dracula sees the crucifix and is driven back. Furious, Dracula takes the mirror and drops it from the window breaking it on the pavement.
Dracula Chapter 1-5 Summary and Analysis - GradeSaver
His diet of blood gruesomely parallels the Christian Eucharist, in which believers drink and eat the blood and body of Jesus Christ. In many ways, the vampire perversely parallels Christ himself: like Christ, he has died and been reborn, but his resurrection is a …
Dracula Analysis - eNotes.com
However, Dracula shifts between different characters, providing multiple first-person perspectives. This fragmented approach disorients the reader, who must piece together the story from...