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Classic vampire tale is sexier and darker than you remember. Read Common Sense Media's Bram Stoker's Dracula review, age rating, and parents guide.
- A Thrilling Tale
- Characters
- A Book That Speaks For An Age
- Conclusion
Bram Stoker is a master of the horror genre and excels at creating suspense and maintaining thrill. The narrative technique of making use of diaries, journals, news reports, and other methods of information storage and sharing lends a realistic and believable air to the story. We are not hearing all this fantastic tale from the unreliable narration...
Stoker’s characterization in ‘Dracula’ is most fitting. Jonathan Harker’s naivete, Lucy’s innocence, and Dr. John Seward’s total faith in Science at the expense of the spiritual are factors that incapacitate the protagonist’s effort against Dracula’s menace. Dr. Van Helsing’s vast knowledge of both modern science and spirituality is the only saving...
Stoker’s ‘Dracula‘ has such incredible staying power partly because of the manner in which it captures the anxieties of the age and how such anxieties continue to speak for humans even to this day. ‘Dracula‘ is a cautionary tale about the threats of sexual corruption in Victorian society. Harker’s uncharacteristic lust and Lucy’s sexual expressions...
The story of ‘Dracula‘ ends on a remarkable note. The whole of England is oblivious to the crew of Light’s struggle with Dracula. The protagonist is not greeted with a hero’s welcome as the savior of Britain from a horrible monster. They realize that the only evidence for their story lay in what they have put down, and they admit the possibility of...
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In Dracula, Bram Stoker created one of the great masterpieces of the horror genre, brilliantly evoking a nightmare world of vampires and vampire hunters and also illuminating the dark corners of Victorian sexuality and desire.
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Nov 14, 2022 · Bram Stoker's Dracula is a visual spectacle reminiscent of old Hollywood that evokes the best of gothic Victorian romance, and its influences are still seen on screen decades later — I...
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Oct 29, 2015 · The Dracula in Bram Stoker’s book is not the vampire you might expect. Movies and other pop culture interpretations usually miss the mark when it comes to the novel’s central character.
Bram Stoker’s classic potboiler horror story done up in splendid style with expert annotated commentary from Leonard Wolf is an exceptional buy.
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Dec 7, 2023 · Bram Stoker’s Dracula opens with images of a grand dome, a voiceover narration locating the time and place as 1462 upon the fall of Constantinople, leaving the stemming of non-Christian...
