Van Helsing And Dracula Comparison Essay

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Along with society, the understanding of certain established values, morals and ethics progresses because of numerous changes in perception within humanity. Perhaps, the beliefs, conducts, and standards in society have been readjusted due to the metamorphosis of civilizations. Dracula, for instance, was a symbol of lust, degeneration, and evil, but its representations have shifted during time. For example, in Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), Van Helsing (2004), and Dracula Untold (2014), one can find several differences between them because of the transmutations that take place in our society every day.
Dracula is a novel written by Bram Stoker in 1897, the central character, Dracula, is the most famous vampire in literature. Moreover, Stoker`s literary work has been the inspiration of many other literary works, films and studies in current society. In addition, Stoker chose and adopted the name Vlad Draculea or “Vlad the Impaler,” (a name used for the …show more content…
First of all, Van Helsing appears just in Bram Stoker's Dracula and Van Helsing, however they play two different roles. In the first one, Professor Van Helsing is a doctor, a philosopher and a metaphysician that is trying to save Lucy from Dracula by combining medicine, and religion with traditional and mythical remedies, and exterminating the monster. In the second one, Van Helsing is the “assassin” of the church. Him confronting Dracula has been analyzed as a symbolism for the Christian crusades (Film & Television Literature). Although he presents as a prominent adversary, he is nothing but a religious hitman (he does not posses the intellectual degree of the original character) at the end he transforms in to a werewolf (suggesting that everybody is equal in this society) and kills Dracula. Whereas, in Dracula Untold, Van Helsing does not appear because Dracula and the story are not focused in how to kill the monster, but in how the monster was
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