sábado, 24 de mayo de 2014

Dracula

  















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Tr. Spa-Eng. from a review in Shvoong

 They are not a few who believe that Stoker based his character on a figure with historical touches: Vlad Tepes, known as Vlad the Impaler, or Dracula, as well as on legends of vampires of Eastern Europe. Vlad Tepes lived in the 15th century and was the Prince of Wallachia (this, along with Moldavia and Transylvania, joined the Kingdom of Romania). As a child, Tepes deployed a morbid fascination for the underground dungeons of the castle of his father, who contained the Ottoman incursions but not without appealing to a disproportionate cruelty. Bram Stoker knew about the existence of Voivoda Dracula through reading a book that gathered information about Wallachia and Moldova, in which the author announced: "Dracula, in the native language of Wallachia, means Devil". The harmony of the name liked to Stoker, who had baptized his vampire "conde Vampi", and which soon became count Dracula. However, Stoker knew almost nothing about the life of Tepes, and the novel Dracula does not keep any connections with him.To detail the landscape of Romania Stoker compiled information from the novel The Land beyond the Forest (Emily Gerard, 1888) and the Report on the Principalities of Wallachia. Based in Transylvania, she used to publish notices requiring virgin young girls to enroll in her court, then took their lives and sucked their blood. At the time she was unmasked, dozens of bodies of women without a drop of blood were exhumed in the dungeons of her castle.















The Sacrifice Lie: Somebody already conciously died 
                               and was reborn for you in you

 Stoker's parents, Abraham Stoker and the feminist Charlotte Mathilda Blake Thornely, had seven children and Stoker was the third of them. He was auditor of the Trinity College Historical Society, and President of the Philosophical Society of the University, where his first publication was in Sensationalism in Fiction and Society. In 1876, Stoker wrote a non-fictional book, The Duties of Clerks of Juries' Sessions in Ireland, divulged in 1879, and performed works as theatre critiic for the newspaper Dublin Evening Mail. In December 1876, he published a review favorable to Henry Irving's perfomance as Hamlet at the Theatre Royal in Dublin. Irving read the review and invited Stoker to dinner at the Shelbourne Hotel, where he was in condition of guest. He also wrote stories, as The Crystal Cup in 1872 which was published by The Society of London, after which he wrote The Chain of Destiny, work which was published in four parts in The Shamrock. In 1878, Stoker married Florence Balcombe, a woman of great and renowned beauty who had been romantically in contact with Oscar Wilde. Stoker kept increasing his income by writing a number of novels, resulting in the most famous of the vampire Dracula, for which he dedicated eight years investigating both the European tradition and the stories of vampires. Dracula is an epistolary novel written as the sum of daily entries, telegrams, and letters from the characters, as well as clippings from Whitby and London newspapers, to relate events not directly witnessed by the characters of the story.The novel begins with Jonathan Harker, a newly appointed English Court secretary and his transfer by train and carriage from England to the far-off castle of count Dracula, located in the mountains adjacent to Transylvania and Moldova. The mission had the purpose of legally attend Dracula for a convention controlled by the head of Harker, Peter Hawkins, in Exeter, England. Although initially Harper is seduced by the manners of Dracula, he does not take much to discover that he had become a prisoner in the castle. During his captivity he begins to notice disturbing habits in Dracula's night life. Harker barely escapes with life from the castle and when he feels on safe he returns to England. Soon Dracula poses his attention on Harker's fiancé, Wilhelmina "Mina" Murray, and her vivacious friend, Lucy Westenra. Lucy is captivated by Dracula, and she soon began to act strangely. This was inferred by Professor Abraham Van Helsing, former master of Dr. Seward, one of Lucy's suitors, who had come to him for advice. Lucy and her mother ended up being attacked and killed by a wolf. Van Helsing, knowing of the vampire condition, entrusts to Seward and the remaining suitors, Lord Godalming and Morris, this reality, and after searching for her, they finally end up killing Lucy. Jonathan Harker and Mina, now husband and wife, were added to the group, with the purpose of finishing Dracula off. The latter, after learning that the group had united against him, took revenge by visiting Mina on several occasions. In one of his visits, he fed Mina with his blood, whereupon after that he ended up creating a spiritual bond between them, and thus was able to control her.
 Bram Stoker died in 1912, was cremated and his ashes were placed in an urn that was exhibited for a long time in the crematorium Golders Green. The collection of short stories The Guests of Dracula and Other Strange Stories was divulged in 1914 by the widow of Stoker, Florence Stoker, publication that had a good reception among the followers of the creator of the most famous vampire.

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