Is there a reason dracula didn't come out more in the book Bram Stoker's Dracula?
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July 18th, 2010 at 3:27 pm
Since Bram Stoker chose to write "Dracula" as a series of letters, diary and journal entries written by the heroes of his horror tale, Dracula himself stays offstage for a lot of the book; yet his presence is felt everywhere in its pages. Nearly everyone in the book is influenced by him and the evil he spreads—because he is a mystery, seldom seen, but each time more terrible and horrific, he eventually becomes in the minds of the readers more terrifying than if he were on every page.
Remember that this was the very first of the Dracula stories, so nobody had any idea what Dracula was, or what his powers were, or how terrible a being he was, until they read this book. Having him revealed more fully would have been a disaster for the suspense and unfolding mystery of the story.
July 18th, 2010 at 3:27 pm
Sunshine would kill him.
July 18th, 2010 at 3:27 pm
If you mean why doesn’t he feature more as a character, it’s a way of making him seem more menacing and mysterious. It’s like how Hannibal Lector is only in like twenty minutes of the silence of the lambs, but he still manages to be this convincing and scary bad guy.
July 18th, 2010 at 3:27 pm
Yeah, sunlight and screaming terrified villagers armed with garlic and wooden stakes would kill him.
Any ten year with a real taste in vampires would know it. No more "sparkling vegetarian" vampires" talk.
July 18th, 2010 at 3:27 pm
come ‘out’ how? I don’t think he was gay. Why he did not kill more people? He may have but the good guys would not have necessarily known about _all_ of them. And he did probably do in all the crew of the ship. He was toying with Van Helsing. He really thought he could kill all the Vampire Hunters. Real vampires would have just got them lost in the mountains and watched them fall into crevices and die of exposure.