Dracula The novel Dracula by Bram Stoker with an introduction by Leonard Wolf was the most romantic yet darkest novel I have ever read. I am so in love with Mina's character that I think she is absolutely kind, weak and voiceless. The Count Dracula character is my other favorite, even though he is evil and evil, but part of me says maybe he wants revenge to win back Mina's heart. Furthermore, Dracula has the ability to change his form into a wolf and sometimes transforms his appearance. My last favorite character is Renfield, because he is crazy and moody, yet he believes in Dracula and his power. He basically worships him and thinks Dracula is his superior/master. The strange thing is that no one believes what he says. Now we can say that Walt Whitman would approve of this type of Gothic novel for its originality of the context of Stoker's Dracula book. Even knowing that there is a gap between Whitman's death in 1892 and the time Stoker published the book Dracula in 1897. There are about five years between them and it tells all. I wish I could compare both Whitman and Stoker but I defiantly can't say they are almost similar in their work because knowing the concept of Whitman's type of style he likes to write. Whitman is more interested in nature, realism and light. While Stoker's novel, Dracula, is more of a gothic narrative, but romantic to a certain extent. Stoker's writing also includes events of nature where the events take place in nature, for example “Then, as the cloud passed, I could see the ruins of the abbey come into view; and as the edge of a narrow band of light, sharp as a sword's edge, moves, the church and the churchyard gradually become visible." (Stoker, 93) In chapter 8, when Mina goes out to look for Lucy, she finds that she has been placed in Mary's churchyard. Mina sees the full moon and the entire nature around her is clear and visible to her. Whitman would be a little similar in terms of the romance, the religious parts of this novel, and the natural aspects. Because Whitman considers these terms as a big problem for all mankind and without them we would not be talking about the decline of nature. Whitman talks about the whole of nature in Leave of Grass, especially in Twilight: “The soft and voluptuous opiate shades, the sun just set, the greedy light dissipated – (I too will soon be gone, dissipated), A haze – nirvana – rest and night – oblivion”. (Whitman, 633) With the title I can make a connection between Twilight and Dracula because it reminds me of my favorite book of all time, Twilight, by Stephanie Meyer, which also has a vampire who appears at sunset. It is a romantic book for young adults and is about separation, loneliness and the search for love. The main point is that I see in all the poems, whether in Whitman, Stoker, or even Meyer, we see that the general ballet is overcome by the weakness of being out in the light to earn your dues and have your loved ones close to you.
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