Bram Stoker's Way Of The Vampire

After being absorbed in reading the novel by Stoker's Dracula, when I looked at my watch, it was well past my bedtime (midnight), so I wound the farthest bathroom at the end of our long corridor, since I do not want to wake Mary Patricia (my wife). Halfway I was seized with a primal fear that froze me on the spot: I swear the evil vampire Dracula - lurking in the shadows - and welcomed me to his kingdom, fangs dripping blood, his arms outstretched.

The fear I felt before, but this was different.

Dracula is a book to review from time to time. Finally, it dawned on me that Dracula fear the day of life out of me not because of its appearance or bad reputation, but because the vampire has something that I do: nonhuman knowledge.

Bram Stoker's Dracula is one of the most frightening books ever written, and the reasons for its perennial appeal are essentially two:

(1) The subject of vampires in which the supernatural is thrown into the natural world

(2) writing techniques: the use of absolutes.

When Count Dracula said: "There are things worse than death awaits them." Ah, what could it be? Orphede, Tiresias, and Dante, belong to all persons who have returned from the other side and what they had to say was horrible, but they have said things in the human understanding. So what are the things "worse" casually mentions that Dracula? Is it something unspeakable? Is it something so huge and non-rational and secular that he must leave unsaid?

The man fears that I can live with. Take Stephen King - the unsurpassed master of horror - which scares us with the knowledge of man: sins, transgressions, and the cruelty of man. With skillful prose and distinctive voices Stephen King exploits our fears and emotions dark, often using profanity and repulsion. Bram Stoker also uses this sense of repugnance in his novel: "As the Count leaned over me and touched my hands ... a horrible feeling of nausea came over me, which I would, I could not hide. "

Yet what always puts a chill in my heart and mind is the persistent question of the afterlife: the worst does refer to Dracula?

Because the novel Dracula raises questions rather respond, it will go to the pleasures of readers for many generations. And what a surprise! Not sparing a single figure rhetoric, Bram Stoker stabs and twists central nervous system drive where the horror lies. In some scenes, the voices of employing the "nominative absolute" to add the sensation of simultaneity.

Watch carefully this passage:

"As my eyes opened involuntarily I saw his strong hand grasp the slender neck of the woman and with just a pull back power giant, blue eyes transformed with fury, the gnawing teeth white with rage, and fair cheeks blazing with passion. "

Eyes transformed "is a participle absolute past:" The teeth gnawing "and" Cheeks flaming "are both absolute participle.

While we believe that Ernest Hemingway was the inventor of the Absolute, Stoker was very ahead of him. Hemingway has abused the technology, Bram Stoker was measured and restrained in its use.

Subjunctive is a rhetorical device that repeats contiguous words. Notice how Stoker made use of it:

"I closed my eyes in a languorous ecstasy and waited-waited with beating heart."

Rhetoric is not dead. It is always present in great works of literature.

Humans instinctively seek the beauty in what they read. In Dracula we find not in the theme or plot, but the composition itself, for it is written masterfully. Readers, students, writers flowers that are serious about literature is elegant yet exciting writing seize their minds and viscera. And if you read this novel, the night does not go to the bathroom.