In the first instance where Lucy needs blood, Dr. Seward is more than ready to give his blood to her before Arthur enters and declares: “I would give the last drop of blood in my body for her” (175). Unknown to Arthur's future bride Lucy, her future husband is ... 29 of 40 people found this review helpful. [1] When his father dies about halfway through the novel, Arthur inherits his title. It’s in the air.

It was written by Stewart Harcourt and directed by Bill Eagles. But this is heresy, and I must not say it” (87). It’s a lazy TV convention that villains murder their own lieutenants all the time just to show what bastards they are, and furthermore suggests that this Count’s ambitions of empire are unlikely to come to much since he is a poor strategist.

Ken Gelder says that Dracula is “a novel which seems (these days, especially) to generate readings, rather than close them down” (65). Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window), Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window), Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window), Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window), Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window), Professor Moriarty: The Hound of the D’Urbervilles, Science Fiction/Horror: A Sight and Sound Reader, Horror: The Definitive Guide to the Cinema of Fear, Film review – House of the Wolf Man (2009), FrightFest review – The Nights Before Christmas, FrightFest review – Sin Origen (Origin Unknown), FrightFest review – La Funeraria (The Funeral Home). The Oscar Wilde case erupted at the very moment when Stoker was writing his novel [...]. Arthur, enraged to find Dracula in his home, finds himself powerless as Lucy suddenly falls victim to the vampire. Upon entering the Chapel where Dracula had been hiding his dirt, Johnathan recounts the smell of the air: “The long disuse had made the air stagnant and foul. Some even claim to know when he had this nightmare. Three decades on, the BBC transmitted another bash at a Dracula.

Some dismiss the dream outright. Others read it as a perverse orgasm, or even as gang rape (Bentley 30; Leatherdale 165). It is certainly possible” (Shuttle 266). We are told that “Dracula was written one month after Wilde went to jail” (Schaffer 471); that “the Wilde trials generated the terror that took the form of Dracula” (Auerbach, Preface vii; emphasis mine); that in failing to mention Wilde in his tribute to Henry Irving, “Stoker was protecting the door to the closet in which he hid his own sexual identity.” (Wolf, Connoisseur’s Guide 145). For a cross-section of such readings, see Arata; Kline; and H.L. How rumour can be turned into proof is well illustrated in the case of Stoker’s failed sexual relationship with his wife. We do not know.

A full fifteen minutes of this hour and a half production take place before Stoker’s opening, dealing with the death of Arthur’s father (an incident from the book no other adaptation has featured) and his involvement with the cult, whose headquarters are in Cheyne Walk (where Stoker lived).

The evidence is shaky at best. The real horror of Dracula is how much he can poison and spread in the city with little detection, as in many ways the pandemics London had faced had all sparked similar anxieties of contagion and social impurity.

This alone would cause for suspicion of syphilis under the Contagious Disease Acts, as Lucy is both portrayed as a more promiscuous woman and an infected woman. Eberle-Sinatra 1996-2006 — All rights reserved.

Bierman draws additional support for his theory from another problematic source. Arthur, suffering from hereditary syphilis, has been convinced by a Chelsea-based cult of Dracula-worshippers, led by the glowering Singleton (Donald Sumpter), that the Count can cure his tainted blood. After the death of Holmwood's father, Holmwood gains a somewhat stronger will, befitting his new title, while Jonathan is prone to melancholia as his wife is terrorized by the Count. Unknown to Arthur's future bride Lucy, her future husband is infected with syphilis and therefore cannot consummate their future marriage. .

In just the span of thirty years, London’s understanding of infectious disease and public health would change the city dramatically.

He also proposes that “the original abuser in Stoker’s life, from whom our fictional Count derives, was [...] a man of many positive qualities, as sexually abusive fathers frequently are” (147).

It was first aired on 28 December 2006 in the United Kingdom.

However, Lucy dies the next morning and Seward is convinced that Arthur is responsible for her sudden death.

Readers of Dracula have been assured repeatedly that the novel is all about sex. The classic English ghost story gets a revision when a college professor finds himself plagued by spectral visions. Stoker’s first biographer Harry Ludlam, presumably relying on his primary source, Stoker’s son Noel, states without explanation that “from the moment of his arrival he was expected to die” (11). ( Log Out /  The text of Dracula has been subjected over the years to a painstaking search for linguistic fig-leaves as words are squeezed for every erotic potential. Seward confronts a grief-stricken and remorseful Arthur, who explains that his syphilis prevented him from consummating his marriage, and that he arranged for Dracula to come to England in the hope that he would cure him of the disease.

But it is quite another thing to support such a contention using flimsy (or even non-existent) biographical information. Later, he declares that “my love and admiration for Irving were such that nothing I could tell to others—nothing that I can recall to myself—could lessen his worth” (2: 341). In some cases, words have been twisted to yield new meanings, whole passages have been examined out of context, and gaps in the text have been declared intentional omissions. “‘Kiss me with those red lips’: Gender and Inversion in Bram Stoker’s. There is no longer any doubt about where Stoker found the name “Dracula.” We know from his working papers (housed at the Rosenbach Museum in Philadelphia) that by March 1890 he had already started work on the novel and had even selected a name for his vampire—Count Wampyr. Florescu and McNally tell us that faced with the fact that his wife “had refused to sleep with him since their only son Noel was born in 1879,” Stoker “did the Victorian thing. As Belford notes, there “is now sufficient medical opinion to cast doubt on syphilis as the cause of death or even a factor in Stoker’s medical history” (122).

Every possible variation has been explored. The Romanian count known as Dracula is summoned to London by Arthur Holmwood, a young Lord who is on the verge of being wed. ———. Grigore Nandris suggested in 1966 that “Perhaps it is not too imaginative to bring in the fact that when Dracula was written the minds of Londoners were preoccupied with the trial of Oscar Wilde” (378).

Stoker is supposed to have in desperation turned to prostitutes with the result that he contracted syphilis. This symbolic transfusion is first between Lucy and her fiancé, but due to Lucy’s vulnerable temperament, she falls victim to Dracula again and needs another transfusion while Arthur is not present.

It is mentioned in the note at the end of the novel, written seven years after Dracula's death, that Holmwood is now married happily. Barbara Belford built her entire biography of Stoker on the premise that “Any understanding of Bram Stoker’s life and the reason he wrote Dracula begins with this first meeting [between Stoker and Irving]” and that “Dracula is all about Irving as the vampire” (4, 106). It's not awful, but it's still rather anemic."[3]. It begins with Jonathan Harker, a young American lawyer, as he travels to Transylvania. Vlad was a man who, as a child (aged 13-17), had to helplessly watch his beautiful brother, Radu (aged 5-9), sexually abused” (Lapin 34). Other than that the rewrite was a weak and disappointing production and doesn't even hold a candle to past efforts by Hammer or indeed Francis Ford Coppola. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. As readers, we quickly learn that Lucy is a more sexually liberated woman when she reflects on her three marriage proposals: “Why can’t they let a girl marry three men, or as many as want her, and save all this trouble? That is just not so.

Assuming that Stoker invented the story, it may have served as a pose, following in the tradition of many Gothic writers whose works were supposed to have been inspired by nightmares. Written by

Stoker uses the figure of the vampire as thinly-veiled shorthand for many …

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