10 Dimensions for Dracula by Bram Stoker The aesthetic and psychological views on Dracula

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Literary/Aesthetic

The style of using a series of letters, journals, and diaries to tell the story was perfect for this novel because this technique is highly effective in keeping the suspense. The reason is, because of the various sources that made the plot, it made the story more believable. It also helps in sustaining suspense, because the story is not told in a straightforward in chronological way. Instead it jumps from date to date and from person to person. Much like a mystery, there are lots of information scattered in a way that the reader must pay a great deal of attention to the information given. The reader must also put together the pieces of information, like a puzzle, before the reader can understand what Stoker wants you to comprehend.

One of the interesting aspects of this story is that the Count Dracula that Stoker has created is so much more different from the stereotypical view of Count Dracula.

We see that the antagonist is a very intelligent, and powerful man in the novel. Yet many of the movies and materials based on the book show Count Dracula as a blood-lusting madman.

Stoker for the most part set the story up amazingly well. Throughout the book Count Dracula himself is rarely seen, yet he makes the readers feel the presence of an evil being throughout the entire novel. Stoker has also been very careful to not mention the word vampire, most likely as not to give the main characters identity away, and to arouse the sense of fear of the unknown in the readers.

One of the factors of the great mystery of this novel is the fact that Stoker has been very careful not to explain everything in too much detail. He leaves enough out that the novel would...