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- While Dracula has wreaked destruction in Transylvania for hundreds of years, his move to England makes him a major threat to the foundations of the protagonists’ own society. The protagonists seek not only to remove this threat to their safety, but to rid the world of Dracula’s evil forever.
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Mar 7, 2015 · 1 Answer. Sorted by: 3. The Count's reasons for coming to England are never explicitly s-p-e-l-l-e-d out, but at the time Dracula was written England was THE world power and London was pretty much the capitol of the world (at least as far as a British author was concerned); anyone with aspirations would OF COURSE move to London.
While Dracula has wreaked destruction in Transylvania for hundreds of years, his move to England makes him a major threat to the foundations of the protagonists’ own society. The protagonists seek not only to remove this threat to their safety, but to rid the world of Dracula’s evil forever.
Quick answer: Dracula moves to England for a variety of reasons not made explicit in the text, but upon which a degree of informed speculation can be exercised. His collection of English...
Dracula is set largely in England, but Stoker was born in Ireland, which was at that time part of the British Empire, and lived there for the first 30 years of his life. As a result, a significant body of writing exists on Dracula , Ireland, England, and colonialism.
- Bram Stoker
- 1897
Evidently, Van Helsing has deduced the reason why Dracula came to England: Dracula's own country is so "barren of people" that he came to England, a place where life is rich and flourishing; he is now returning to his native soil to escape discovery.
So it so happens that evil would come from far away Scandinavia to try and corrupt innocent England and that it would be brave, resourceful, intelligent, and above all, innocent Englishmen (plus an American and a Dutchman) who would combat it.
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