Bram Stoker's Dracula: Anti-Christian

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Another time when the Host is used
as a deterrence of vampires is at the time Van Helsing and the other men are
going to leave Mina alone in the house. Van Helsing touches a Host to Mina's
forehead and it burns into her head since she, herself, was unclean. Another
abstruction of the Christian religion would be the fact that Dracula sleeps in
a coffin and especially because the dirt in his coffin is consecrated and
Dracula, being evil, uses this ground to rest in. Dracula has several of the
powers that Christians believe no one but God could control. For instance,
Dracula can control the weather, wild or unclean animals and, he can change
form and disappear into the air. Christians believe that consuming God's body
and blood will give them everlasting life with God in heaven. Dracula getting
life after death or living an afterlife on earth by consuming the blood of the
living to survive, build his strength, and create more followers of him in his
evil ways. By this, Dracula ...

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which
would fulfill Dracula's purpose of spreading evil. For those reasons I think
that the book Dracula is itself Anti-Christian and that the person Dracula could
be easily considered the Anti-Christ.

2.)
The novel Dracula by Bram Stoker uses sexuality as an important part of
vampirism. The first major encounter of this is when Jonathan Harker sees the
three vampire ladies at Castle Dracula. As they walk about the room Jonathan
notices one of them and spots her lips as being �voluptuous�, a word that can
be used to mean something that is desired. Jonathan desires these vampire women
and as she bends down to kiss him he does not suppress her from what she wants
to do, as ...

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