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DRACULA


BY BRAM STOKER

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The first edition of Dracula was published in June 1897. As late as May of that
year, Stoker was still using his original working title for the novel, The
Un-Dead. "Undead," a word now commonly used in horror novels and movies, was a
term invented by Stoker. Dracula was his most famous novel, instantly a
bestseller and perhaps the most famous horror novel ever. It has been made and
re-made in film adaptations, been reprinted numerous times, and has continued to
sell copies for a hundred years.

Although earlier novels about vampires had been published in England, Stoker's
depiction of the vampire has had perhaps the strongest hold on the popular
imagination. Stories of vampires or vampire-like creatures exist in all
cultures: from China to India to the Incan Empire, variations of the vampire
have populated diverse peoples' nightmares and folklore. Stoker researched
Eastern European legends, which offer widely varied tales about supernatural
monsters. In Eastern European lore, there is not one kind of vampire but many,
and "vampire" is not so distinct a category from "demon" or even "witch" as it
has become in modern horror movies. Stoker chose freely from among the legends
about various Eastern European demons, some of them bloodsucking, and came up
with a suitable interpretation of the vampire for his novel.

He also studied Eastern European history. In the prince of Wallachia, Vlad
Tepes, or Dracula ("Son of Dracul"), Bram Stoker found inspiration for his tale
of an undead nobleman. Vlad Tepes ("Vlad the Impaler") was a fifteenth Christian
nobleman who fought against the Turks. He was a defender of his country and his
religion, winning the Pope's praise for his campaigns against the Moslems. The
times were full of fear for Christendom?Constantinople, the Rome of the East,
had just fallen to the ever-expanding Turks. Vlad was also legendary for his
cruelty, to Moslem and Christian enemies alike. He was famous for his love of
impaling his victims, a method of execution in which it often took days for the
condemned to die. After one battle, thousands of Turkish soldiers were impaled
at Vlad's command. After Vlad's death, legends about him continued to multiply.
Stoker drew on Vlad's legend for the creation of the vampire Dracula.



Stoker was deeply concerned with sexual morality. Although his novel is full of
racy subtext?possibly far more subtext than the author intended?his own views
regarding sex and morality were in many ways quite conservative. He favored
censoring novels for their sexual content?he considered racy literature
dangerous for the ways that it nurtured man's darker sexual tendencies. Although
Dracula has many scenes that seem to revel in sexual language and sensual
description, these pleasures are sublimated to a Victorian and Christian sense
of morality. Sexual energy, in Stoker's view, has great potential for evil, but
part of the novel's trick is that Stoker is allowed to have his cake and eat it,
too. In writing a novel that implicitly conflates sin with sexuality in a
moralizing way, Stoker is also given free reign to write incredibly lurid and
sensual scenes. The themes of Christian redemption and the triumph of purity
carry the day, but the sexually loaded scenes?that of the three female vampires
closing in seductively on a powerless but desiring Jonathan Harker, for
example?tend to linger longest in the reader's mind.

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In what year does the novel "Dracula" take place?

Jonathan Harker's first entry in his diary reads, "Wednesday, 3 May 1893.


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