The Spirit of a late Victorian Age. With reference to Bram Stoker's Dracula. Stoker's monstrous figure, Count Dracula, has today reached epic and almost mythical proportions, like Frankestein (not the doctor), the Gordon Medusa, even Virginia Woolf (thanks to Albee). Like the aforementioned examples, what we associate in our minds to be these monsters, mostly conditioned by popular culture and Hollywood, are merely visual representation. In the novel itself, however, according to other essayists who …showed first 75 words of 749 total…

…showed last 75 words of 749 total…Although this theory is unmistakably Darwin, what it tends to identify is a group of people who believed in Darwin's biology and Newton's physics. In fact, according to the essay "For Blood is the Life" it talks about Darwin's nephew, Francis Galton putting his uncle's theories into practice, by transfusing the blood of one animal into the body of the other in order to "influence the offspring" (Dracula: Between Tradition and Modernism, 75) Bibliography Dracula movie