Dracula (Oxford Playscripts)

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Stoker seems to be advocating an open-mindedness to knowledge that would not dismiss certain areas as being too ridiculous. Likewise, the Industrial Revolution brought profound economic and social change to the previously agrarian England.

TO CANCEL YOUR SUBSCRIPTION AND AVOID BEING CHARGED, YOU MUST CANCEL BEFORE THE END OF THE FREE TRIAL PERIOD. The information, images and media contained in these pages remains the property of Our Lady’s High School, unless otherwise stated.Web icon An illustration of a computer application window Wayback Machine Texts icon An illustration of an open book. Stoker presents a particularly liberal vision of salvation in his implication that the saved need not necessarily be believers. Here, Van Helsing points to the dire consequences of subscribing only to contemporary currents of thought. Van Helsing convinces the other men that Lucy belongs to the “Un-Dead”—in other words, she has been transformed into a vampire like Dracula.

Though they have preyed on helpless children and have sought to bring others into their awful brood, each of the women meets a death that conforms to the Christian promise of salvation. Read about the similar theme of sin, redemption, and damnation in Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus. In the book, vampirism is like a soul-altering plague that either corrupts or shoves aside the pure soul of the individual in other to replace it with a new, much more evil life force.In Dracula, all of the dead are granted the unparalleled peace of salvation—only the “Un-Dead” are barred from it.