DRACULA X DORIAN
REVISION
,
, ‘A heavy dark cloud passed across the face of the moon, so that we were again in
darkness’DORIAN AND DRACULA COMPARISON
Dracula [full text].pdf (google.com)
<h1>The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde</h1> (fulltextarchive.com)
Example Questions
- Themes
Death
Appearance
Supernatural
Evil
Nature
Irrational
Corruption and obsession
Madness
Devil
Presentation of class/aristocracy
Immorality/morality
Bad science
Portrayal of love and desire
Liminal btwn philosophy, psychology and science
Reality vs fantasy
Purity and innocence
Disease and Decay
Anxieties and fear (common in late Victorian era/Gothic conventions) (use of
symbolism and imagery)
Women and purity
Duplicity
Gothic
Religion (God like figures + perversion of Biblical ideas)
Unusual relationships
Sexuality (homoeroticism)
Fear and tension (tension in buildup to death of Dorian and Lucy)
Linked Imagery in ‘Dracula’ and ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’: [Essay Example], 1515
words GradesFixer
Theme comparison in Dorian Gray and Dracula Flashcards | Quizlet
A Level English Dracula and Dorian Gray Flashcards | Quizlet
Edexcel A Level English Lit: Dracula/Dorian Gray Comparative Essay Examples |
Teaching Resources (tes.com)
LOVE
, - Argument: Perversion of love (homosexual, lust, selfish vanity, promiscuity,
eroticism)
POINTS: Love for twisted ideas (eg. LH love for hedonism, Dorian + Lucy/Renfield love for
evil influence, Drac love for power)
- Love requires sacrifice
- Lines of what can be considered ‘love’ are blurry - to what extent can Dorian’s selfish
vanity be considered self love
- Homosexual love
- Promiscuity
Love explicit in Drac, more implicit in Dorian (more in love with ideas over people)
Dorian Dracula
Basil in love with Dorian (homosexual love) - Dracula perversion of love with Harker
homoeroticism (homosexual) ‘The Count turned, after looking
at [Harker's] face attentively’ - homosexual
‘Somehow, I had never loved a woman.’ undertones
“This man belongs to me!” - Dracula is
‘The love that he bore him - for it was really love’ possessive over LH, acting as if they were in a
‘Such love as Michael Angelo had known, and relationship
Montaigne, and Winckelmann, and Shakespeare Dracula’s desire to fuse with a male, most
himself.’ explicitly evoked when Harker cuts himself
Homosexual love btwn Basil and Dorian shaving, subtly and dangerously suffuses this
text,” assumes Christopher Craft (466).
‘From the moment I met you, your personality had Jonathan is the only male whom Dracula
the most extraordinary influence over me. I quite threatens with the danger of vampirism
admit that I adored you madly, extravagantly, ‘Suddenly I felt a hand on my shoulder’ ‘He
absurdly.’ suddenly made a grab at my throat’ fuse at
‘I wanted to have you all to myself.’ throat
‘It was all wrong and foolish. It is all wrong and ‘You yourself never loved! ‘You never love!’
foolish still.’
- Basil confession of love to DG
Dorian in love with himself (selfish love) Dracula’s inability to love (evil and love
‘I am in love with it, Basil.’ - in love with portrait presented as mutually exclusive - cannot exist
Similar simultaneously)
Dorian also unable to love Sybil (bc inner evil) -
Dorian cannot love - does not understand love Dracula’s love for England is presented as a
Declares ‘I am too much in love.’ with Sybil - but is facade, what's shown to be an original,
not genuine innocent love for England is a pointed,
‘You will always be loved, and you will always be in calculated move to dominate the country.
love with love.’ - LH says to Dorian Threat to british imperialism & british society,
Difference - can only successfully love himself fear of east is involved here
(selfish love - not even a proper love, just pure ‘Through them I have come to know your great
vanity) - also a love for LH/his evil influence) England, and to know her is to love her.’ - irony
About the portrait ‘It had taught him to love his own Love for Urban gothic and London - as ideal
beauty.’ place to hide supernatural horrors
‘His unreal and selfish love would yield to some ‘I love the shade and the shadow.’ (link to Basil
REVISION
,
, ‘A heavy dark cloud passed across the face of the moon, so that we were again in
darkness’DORIAN AND DRACULA COMPARISON
Dracula [full text].pdf (google.com)
<h1>The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde</h1> (fulltextarchive.com)
Example Questions
- Themes
Death
Appearance
Supernatural
Evil
Nature
Irrational
Corruption and obsession
Madness
Devil
Presentation of class/aristocracy
Immorality/morality
Bad science
Portrayal of love and desire
Liminal btwn philosophy, psychology and science
Reality vs fantasy
Purity and innocence
Disease and Decay
Anxieties and fear (common in late Victorian era/Gothic conventions) (use of
symbolism and imagery)
Women and purity
Duplicity
Gothic
Religion (God like figures + perversion of Biblical ideas)
Unusual relationships
Sexuality (homoeroticism)
Fear and tension (tension in buildup to death of Dorian and Lucy)
Linked Imagery in ‘Dracula’ and ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’: [Essay Example], 1515
words GradesFixer
Theme comparison in Dorian Gray and Dracula Flashcards | Quizlet
A Level English Dracula and Dorian Gray Flashcards | Quizlet
Edexcel A Level English Lit: Dracula/Dorian Gray Comparative Essay Examples |
Teaching Resources (tes.com)
LOVE
, - Argument: Perversion of love (homosexual, lust, selfish vanity, promiscuity,
eroticism)
POINTS: Love for twisted ideas (eg. LH love for hedonism, Dorian + Lucy/Renfield love for
evil influence, Drac love for power)
- Love requires sacrifice
- Lines of what can be considered ‘love’ are blurry - to what extent can Dorian’s selfish
vanity be considered self love
- Homosexual love
- Promiscuity
Love explicit in Drac, more implicit in Dorian (more in love with ideas over people)
Dorian Dracula
Basil in love with Dorian (homosexual love) - Dracula perversion of love with Harker
homoeroticism (homosexual) ‘The Count turned, after looking
at [Harker's] face attentively’ - homosexual
‘Somehow, I had never loved a woman.’ undertones
“This man belongs to me!” - Dracula is
‘The love that he bore him - for it was really love’ possessive over LH, acting as if they were in a
‘Such love as Michael Angelo had known, and relationship
Montaigne, and Winckelmann, and Shakespeare Dracula’s desire to fuse with a male, most
himself.’ explicitly evoked when Harker cuts himself
Homosexual love btwn Basil and Dorian shaving, subtly and dangerously suffuses this
text,” assumes Christopher Craft (466).
‘From the moment I met you, your personality had Jonathan is the only male whom Dracula
the most extraordinary influence over me. I quite threatens with the danger of vampirism
admit that I adored you madly, extravagantly, ‘Suddenly I felt a hand on my shoulder’ ‘He
absurdly.’ suddenly made a grab at my throat’ fuse at
‘I wanted to have you all to myself.’ throat
‘It was all wrong and foolish. It is all wrong and ‘You yourself never loved! ‘You never love!’
foolish still.’
- Basil confession of love to DG
Dorian in love with himself (selfish love) Dracula’s inability to love (evil and love
‘I am in love with it, Basil.’ - in love with portrait presented as mutually exclusive - cannot exist
Similar simultaneously)
Dorian also unable to love Sybil (bc inner evil) -
Dorian cannot love - does not understand love Dracula’s love for England is presented as a
Declares ‘I am too much in love.’ with Sybil - but is facade, what's shown to be an original,
not genuine innocent love for England is a pointed,
‘You will always be loved, and you will always be in calculated move to dominate the country.
love with love.’ - LH says to Dorian Threat to british imperialism & british society,
Difference - can only successfully love himself fear of east is involved here
(selfish love - not even a proper love, just pure ‘Through them I have come to know your great
vanity) - also a love for LH/his evil influence) England, and to know her is to love her.’ - irony
About the portrait ‘It had taught him to love his own Love for Urban gothic and London - as ideal
beauty.’ place to hide supernatural horrors
‘His unreal and selfish love would yield to some ‘I love the shade and the shadow.’ (link to Basil
