Dracula Supernatural being!

Well if you look at the history of mythical creatures called "Vampires" supernatural beings believed since biblicohl times, they are the "living dead." They live off the blood of other creatures, the are repulsed away by garlic ex. Van Helsing put garlic around Lucy while her transformation to a vamiprus is beging. Also anytime today we hear vampire we think they turn into a bat and they can't come into ou house unless invited, or they sleep in coffins, or they SPARKLE in sunlight (Probally the most stupid thing I ever heard of." But yes Dracula does all the vampire abilites except the sparkle part. But the author of "Dracula," Bram Stroker put his abilites in a such dark but inticing way, thus Gothic literature. Even though my group has a fear for Dracula we also are drawn to him like a moth to a light. Think about Stroker describes dracula to be handsome and he gaze to be so beautiful it puts you into a trance. To me that is more frightening then anything because as huans we are drawn to beauty. To me Dracula has one the most amazing supernatural powers in any novel for in fact he like a supernatural being there really isn't any human about him. Now question for this post if you could have any of Dracula's supernatural power what would it be and why?

One Supernatral Happening I Saw

Well, on the topic of supernatural horror, I first saw Dracula as an eccentric old man, but the first behavior of the Count is when Jonathan cuts himself shaving confirmed the suspicion of the peasants Harker ran into. It seemed strange that Dracula did not appear in the mirror, and when the Count noticed the cut Jonathan had given himself, "his eyes blazed with a sort of demoniac fury". (Stoker 26) This is the critical point in the book where we learn Dracula is something not human with a passion for blood. What are your thoughts on the supernatural happenings within the novel?

Mysteries of Gothic Lit.

I guess the apparent genre of the gothic era is mystery and adventure (but mostly thriller type).Why is that do you think? Because most if not all of the books from that century are based around the supernatural. Now thinking this made me think of how we crave the magic today, and thats why we read these things I guess for the same reason people back then read them.

Mystery:))

i agree with kevtay, you have brought up alot of valid points! I liked what you said about the mystery, i have read a great deal of the book already so i won't go into too much detail but the mystery that appears most apparant to me is that dracula has soo much power in translyvania!. i can't wait to find out what he has in store for the friends of john next. oh i have a question! what do you think about the whole COUNT title? if he is the living dead, which clearly means he is dead, why is he still a count???

Dracula and Frakestien

Jessicee123 you have a very good point! I think it is really amazing how both authors use diary entries. This shows the readers a personal view of each character and how everyone relates to oe another. Also what i want to point out on Dracula is that it mostly about fictonal characters! What do you think about this? Dracula and Frankenstien are very popular even in our society many people know about them, and each of them have their ow stories. What I fid diferent was that Frankestein was a misunderstood creature, while Dracula was truly a monster who fed on people bloody I really think Dracula is a concentration of pure evil. M question to you is why most Gothic novels have very mystical creatures in them?

Frankenstein and Draculaa.

Well, the novels Draculaa andd Frankenstein have a very similar structuree. Like how both of thee books start off with letters. Have you guys noticed that? Draculaa begins with a diary kept by Jonathan Harker, a man who is likee an English solicitor. And he’s travelling somewheree, andd he is on his way from Englandd to Eastern Europee. This is a major resemblancee to Robert Walton. At the beginning of the book, Walton writes a series of letters on a ship headedd on a voyagee to the North Polee. I thinkk the book is structuredd likee this on purpose becausee the letters give us info about whats gonna happen later on in the story, but not not too much information so that it has that hint of mystery, which is a key element in gothic literaturee and horror stories.