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Where do you see animal imagery in Dracula? How and why does Stoker use this animal imagery?

Writer1

In Bram Stoker’s Dracula, animal imagery is scattered throughout the story. The earliest examples occur in very beginning when Johnathan Harker is traveling to Dracula’s castle; his carriage gets surrounded by wolves. Shortly thereafter, while in Dracula’s castle, Mr. Harker witnesses Dracula scaling the vertical walls of the castle like a reptile. The most notable instances involve Dracula transforming into animals to gain access to his victims and escape unfavorable situations. For instance, he escaped the shipwreck of the Demeter when we was seen as a dog disappearing into the woods, flew into and out of Lucy’s room as a bat on several occasions and killed Lucy’s mother as a wolf. Dracula also has the ability to control some elements and animals such as rats, wolves, bats and fog.

Stoker gives Dracula animal characteristics to make him more of a superhuman monster and take away from his human qualities. A human who sucks blood out of people’s necks is bad enough but one who can transform into a creature and hunt down anyone anywhere is much more of a horrific idea. Dracula himself is a nocturnal animal just like the creatures which he controls, bats, rats and wolves which slumber during the day and hunt at night. Many people fear the dark of night and the night time setting adds to the suspense of the story.

Writer2

According to me, in the story “Dracula”, we can see his animal like image in many parts of the story. He uses to drain the blood out of the people like animals. He had no feelings about any of the human except the one he knew were the incarnation of his wife. Even in one part of the story he bites and infects a girl who was brought to be cured from the priest. He shows a ruthless attack on the priest who tries to save a girl from his infection. Another part of the story is where he returned on the ship pretending to be a dead body and finally ends his pretention and kills people.

Stoker uses this animal imagery as he showed Dracula as a vampire where his looks were similar to the human but deeds were just like animals. He had no emotions or feelings like human. He was sad of the world. That was the reason he showed the world his dark side. He did not believed in god. This was the reason why his image was animal like. Stoker was very well able to display his role as he wanted through his words in the story.