Dracula_and_Jesus

Dracula and Jesus Dracula and Jesus' Count Dracula has many similarities to Jesus Christ throughout Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula. Although Jesus represents good and Dracula represents bad, both have things in common. They are both supposed to be presented as a godly and all-powerful figure. In this novel, you find similarities in the way they die, what happens when they die, and how others know them. They are very different but have similar ways of doing things. One thing in which they have in common is the way they die. Dracula is killed when Quincey Morris drives a knife through his heart and Jesus dies when the Romans nail him to the cross. After Jesus died his body ascended into heaven. When Dracula dies, according to Mina Harker, “before our very eyes, and almost in the drawing of a breath, the whole body crumbled into dust and passed from our sight” (Stoker 398). These deaths are similar in that in both deaths the body disappears in an unnatural way and have their own meanings. Jesus ascended into heaven and Dracula vanished from the earth. Dracula’s dying is also symbolic, in that when he dies and turns to dust representing the Christian saying from dust to dracula, jesus, similarities, both, souls, novel, life, dust, dies, way, stoker, just, died, die, common, before, very, thing, story, similar, killed, heaven, deaths, christ, body, believed, after, ways, vampire, told, through, set, saved, represents, quincey, purgatory, people, passed, morris, mass, history, freed, free, dracula’s, different, curse, christian, bram, bible, between, believe