Analysis Of From Simple Beast And The Bride Of The...

Kevin Zhang Ms. Frisbie English 4 7 November 2014 From Simple Beast to Complex Human Initially thought of as another tasteless fiction similar to its predecessor The Snake’s Pass, Irish writer Bram Stoker silenced his critics and received worldwide praise on June 1897 with his popular literary work Dracula. Although many literary works about the vampire originated far before Stoker’s time, such as Polidori’s The Vampyre (1819), James Planchà ©s The Vampire; or, the Bride of the Isles (1820), Alexandre Dumas’ play Le Vampire (1851), James Malcolm Rymer’s Varney the Vampyre (1847) or Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla (1872), much of the contemporary vampire works are based off the foundation Stoker set. One could even argue that Dracula did not reach its peak popularity until the late 20th century, due to today s appealing views towards the vampire. When analyzed closely, whether or not it remains accurate to Stoker s intentions, readers are able to depict two types of the Count throughout the novel: a satanic beast who wishes to pe rvert and diminish the Victorian society and a complex creature eliciting an unusual sense of human sympathy. To highlight the era’s immense growth with the arrival of the Industrial Revolution and modern medicine, the creation of Dracula stands along as one of the most influential achievement of its time. Arguably one of popular culture s most famous fictional character, Stoker is able to do this by instilling a sense of evilness, hatefulness andShow MoreRelatedWho Goes with Fergus11452 Words   |  46 PagesFergus example and leave the cares of the world to know the wisdom of nature. He exhorts young men and women alike to leave off brooding over loves bitter mystery and to turn instead to the mysterious order of nature, over which Fergus rules. Analysis This short poem is full of mystery and complexity. It was James Joyces favorite poem, and figures in his famous novel Ulysses, where Stephen Daedalus sings it to his dying mother. On one level, the poem represents Yeats exhortation to the young