Premium Content Vampire as Christ: Antithesis and Religion in Bram Stoker’s Dracula
By Katrina Barnett - April 27, 2010
Within the pages of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, the author explores concepts of love, darkness, and sexuality as well as the theme of good versus evil. The most powerful theme surrounding the infamous vampire, however, is that of mortality. Death and the possibility of life after death permeate the novel in its most Gothic moments as the text draws…
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