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This 5 page paper discusses the legendary novel about the legendary Count, and why we cannot seem to resist his appeal. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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Dracula by Bram Stoker, the grandfather of all vampire tales. This paper tries to get to the root of why we all love this story so. Discussion The short answer
to why we love this tale is that Dracula himself is such a compelling character we want to revisit him again and again. The novel (and its many screen adaptations)
slows down considerably when the vampire isnt around; he is the heart and soul of the work. Interestingly, Stokers Dracula is not the first book about a vampire, but it
is the one that ignited the imagination of its readers. But what is it about the character that draws us? We should probably take a moment to acknowledge the influence
of films on our perception of the character. In the book, Dracula is not particularly attractive: "His face was a strong ... aquiline, with high bridge of the thin nose
and peculiarly arched nostrils ... lofty domed forehead, and hair growing scantily round the temples but profusely elsewhere. His eyebrows were very massive, almost meeting over the nose, and with
bushy hair ... The mouth ... was fixed and rather cruel-looking, with peculiarly sharp white teeth" (Stoker, 1979, p. 26). For the rest, he has pointed ears, thin cheeks
and a very pallid complexion (Stoker, 1979, p. 26). But the movies have given us a very different version. Bela Lugosis European charm makes the 1931 Universal Studios version of
Dracula extremely smooth. In the 1950s, Hammer Studios released a series of films starring the legendary Christopher Lee as the Count; his nemesis Van Helsing was invariably played by Peter
Cushing (Dracula, 2006). One of the best remembered films is the 1979 version with Frank Langella in the title role. His dashing good looks gave a new spin to the
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