Dracula And Jonathon Experiences In Bram Stoker's Dracula

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Because the story took place in the Victorian era, religion and moral were important to society, but the people also started to concern themselves with technical innovations. Therefore in Dracula sacred objects of any kind, whereby faith is the most effective weapon, can protect humans from vampires, but it is necessary to use them combined with modern methods to finally defeat Dracula.
After a woman put a rosary around Jonathan’s neck, he feels comforted and strengthened by it, when he fears Dracula.1 The rosary turns out to be an effective weapon against vampires, as Jonathon experiences: “When the Count saw my face, his eyes blazed with a sort of demoniac fury, and he suddenly made a grab at my throat. I drew away and his hand touched the string of beads which held the crucifix. It made an instant change in him, (…)” 2
For the vampire hunt, they ask Van Helsing, a Professor knowing much about obscure diseases for help and he acts as a bridge between the modern, technical England and the still …show more content…
Dracula seems to be an aristocrat because he occupies a castle and wants to purchase land. He drinks the blood of Mina, who grew up as an orphan and teaches fulltime5 which means she belongs to a lower class than him. Count Dracula is also the master of other, female vampires. He bites them in the neck “until he has completely exhausted their wills”6. Considering the historical background, Dracula sucking Mina’s blood and his servant’s wills out can be interpreted as criticism of the capitalism, which is exploiting the lower classes. Thereby religion is the ‘opium’ of the people, who hope that there is an afterlife, in which the wealthy people have no control.7 As Karl Marx states: “Capital is dead labor, that, vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.”8 This also explains the change from the revenant vampire in folklore to a
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