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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.
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.
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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
That's why some literary critics, like Stephen Arata, have argued that Dracula's move to Britain reflects British people's worry that foreigners (especially from the east) would invade Britain. If Britain really was becoming weaker, as people feared, maybe foreigners—even people from countries that Britain had formerly colonized—would come ...
The first major conflict in Dracula emerges when the diabolical vampire Dracula travels to England, where he preys on the novel’s protagonists until they pledge to destroy him. 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 ...
Why does Holmwood stab Lucy with the stake? Who is killed in the final confrontation with Dracula? How does Dracula become a vampire? Why does Dracula want to move to England? According to Van Helsing’s instructions, how can a vampire be defeated? How does Dracula die? What prompts Van Helsing to join the hunt for Dracula?
Stoker moved to London in order to oversee Irving’s theater, and he fell into the city’s literary circles, which included figures such as Oscar Wilde, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Alfred Lord Tennyson.
