A Psychoanalytical Study of Bram Stoker's Dracula
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2012
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faculty of Art in English
Abstract
This present research work attempts to exhibit the psychoanalytical study of
Bram stoker's Dracula. Here the writer is successful in making it a fantastic and
marvellous novel. Dracula has many psychoanalytic elements like horror and terror,
hypnotism etc. He is seen as a figure of horror and terror, and has been presented as a
terrifying creature. Professor van Helsing has a skill of hypnotizing his patients. The
prime aim of this work is to present bitter reality of Dracula as a modern figure who
survives on blood of others. Dracula, has not only the power of hypnotizing his
victims and turning them into vampires, but also has been a lover of his native land.
Hypnotizing power, shape-shifting and changing the victims into vampires reveal the
development of science and technology in the modern time.
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Hypnotizing power, terrifying creature, psychoanalytic novel