Comparison between Dracula novel and Dracula film

Relating the stoker’s novel and Coppola’s film, the decision, and the conclusions are arrived by the writer of the books and the directors of the film which is influenced by the omissions, changes in the story and other characters. The comparison is important as it will show us the positive side and the negative side of the vampires/monsters. Key words: Dracula, Vampirism, Gothic, Feminism Most of the current writers and novelists draw their context and critics of argument from Dracula highly viable contacts with a series of cultural issues surrounding race. The critics of Gothic fictions make us understand the historical background of the novel and the literacy text displayed. The gothic emphasized on demonism of the supernaturalism as well as psychic regression. However, in the book, Peter who is Jonathan's employer is shown as a good man while in the film Hawkins is shown as a deceitful individual because he sends Harker to Romania despite knowing what will happen to him (Viragh 235).

In the novel, Dracula by Bram Stokers and novel disgrace 1999 by J M Costzee both illustrate clearly the issue of power domination by males in the society. In both novels, fear of reverse colonization is highly demonstrated. Dracula clearly shows fiction and notification test of fear throughout the last century. In this case, fear has being expressed by ‘civilized’ world since there are colonized, by the most powerful nations. Instances of trauma have been brought out well in both novels. Bram Stoker has emphasized this through the theory of female hysteria. On another hand, Dracula emphasized this using a sexual metaphor without questioning links of vampire and trauma. Vampire comprises gender and sexual ideologues on new women and performativity. The author looks at the sexuality form of Dracula in the context of love and marriage.

The book has realistic features that most people need it renamed Actual instead of Dracula (Arata 642). We can view Dracula to be a subaltern struggling of cultural loss. He loses his historical records when he attempts to learn the imperial language and culture of vampirism. This also points out feminism in that his historical record is already fragmentary to the dying people. The important critics of the novel explain the psychosexual mean of denial and repression. On the other hand, in the film, a theme of the gothic vampire is seen when we are told that Dracula became a vampire after winning the war and losing his wife. The novel does not clearly show us how he became a vampire (Yu 163). Coppola’s work made a big difference and surprised the viewers with unlikely in Stoker's novel by providing a deeper understanding and analysing the differences from what Stoker did.

As usual negative imprecation rises when comparing the book and the movie, but in this case, it’s subjective. Thus it is easy to make the required pick among the film and it does not always mean it is the best imprecation of the book regarding the opinion of the viewer. Having no human being features, Dracula is seen having human feeling and emotion towards Murnau. The disharmony into the film is brought when Dracula is eliminated due to incomplete qualities peculiar to human beings (Khader 89). The characters in both the film and the novel Dracula are gothic vampire. Gothic like all other vampires possess no reflection. However, the film and the book can be compared based on the personal views. College Literature 39. Viragh, Attila. Can the Vampire Speak?: Dracula as Discourse on Cultural Extinction.

English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920 56. Yu, Eric Kwan-Wai.