Frankenstein Dracula

    1. The last 1800s in Victorian England when Bram Stoker conceived his book, Victorians were obsessed with empiricism, scientific exploration, and setting themselves apart from “old” ideas. New European ideas of modernity and empiricism battled with the older ideas of tradition, folklore, and faith. Who does Van Helsing, for instance, represent? Jonathan Harker? Mina? Dracula? Discuss the iconography that helps to destroy Dracula? Craft an essay in which you discuss how Stoker represents each side and who ultimately wins – old, new, or something in between? Provide evidence for your claim.