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Dracula - The Forefather of Vampires

Dracula. The Vampire. The old man who grows younger and gains more health and glow as he sucks in more blood from young women.

Dracula. The Vampire. The old man who grows younger and gains more health and glow as he sucks in more blood from young women. Vampire stories are very popular today. Great vampire stories lead the bestsellers, including the Twilight Saga by the modern-day great Stefenie Meyer.

Dracula is a name that has sent many a shiver across the spines of millions of readers till date. From the old castle at Transylvania where the Counts of the Dracula family ruled for ages, the Un-Dead travels all the way to Britain - London - to quench his blood-thirst. Here, he leads Lucy, a nineteen-year old girl, to death - or rather, to an Un-dead like Dracula himself - and also attacks Lucy's friend Mina. Mina's husband Jonathan Harker, Lucy's fiance Arthur Holmwood (Lord Godalming), Dr John Seward and Quincey Morris join Dr Abraham Van Helsing to bring the demonic force of Dracula to an end after a month-long chase over nearly half of Europe. And Morris dies a gallant death before they all pray for peace - "Amen".

Written as an agglomeration of multiple sources such as different diaries, narrations, telegrams, letters, phonograph cylinders and newspapers, the novel offers a rather unique flavor of presentation. Add the exploration of Victorian women, culture and even romance to some extent, one can gather the notion of co-existence of modernism and gender roles. Yet other literary critics have viewed the novel as one with sexual implications where Dracula attacks and even seduces innocent women and end up changing their sexual characters altogether (women such as Lucy in the novel).

In a nutshell, Dracula is the forerunner of many a vampire story today. To really enjoy and appreciate all the vampire stories, one should make a definite note to read the great story of the original vampire - Dracula.

One can find the original full-text book of Dracula in the Bram Stoker page of the library hosted by www.webliterature.net

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