Stoker’s Dracula and other fictions usually have an attraction to prohibited, illegal, and troublesome acts. Dracula is basically an attractive novel that is capable of surprising its readers. The extraordinary quality of the novel is mainly due to the perfect storytelling by Stroker. Dracula is considered a horror genre novel and is excellent Victorian literature. The novel contains secrets and complications which induce the reader to go into a mysterious and threatening novel world.
The threat of reverse colonization is a major issue that is described in the novel. It illustrates the worries of the Victorians concerning the decline of the English empire. In the novel, the horror is created on the topics of reverse colonization, gender recognition, gender responsibilities, homosexuality, etc. In this novel, Dracula is represented as a vampire among the people. Bram Stoker’s Dracula is renowned to bear the representation of different types of horrors like general racism, gynophobia, the fright of ancient nature, and so on.
The reverse colonization in Bram Stoker’s Dracula symbolizes the revolution of fear. “Cyndy Hendershot sees in Dracula and other fin-de-siecle works a representation of a gender identity crisis that is a reflection of an actual crisis in Victorian society about the role and identity of genders”. Dracula is very brutal to the people, who were mere mortals. Dracula is depicted not only as a cruel person but also as a rather sympathetic person. Actually, in this novel, Dracula initiated his power of fear on the English people.
The evil activities of Dracula have been examined by Abraham Van Helsing and some of his team members but before they have been fully investigated, Dracula is shifted to London. He has shifted to London yearning for the comfortable pickings of a crowded modern city. But still, he had moved to Transylvania as he does not encounter his comeuppance in England. Stoker’s Dracula made the Victorians identify with their traditional colonial principles which are reflected as a type of outrage. The travel of Dracula between Transylvania and England can be understood as the reverse of the colonial mistreatment of low-class people.
It depicts the imperial policies of England and Ireland. Transylvania, which was the homeland of Dracula, had made an important contribution to the reverse colonization topic. Count Dracula acts as a vampire and a nobleman in the novel. Even though he had an appearance of royal attraction, he was a mysterious and wicked soul. Dracula is shown as a victorious attacker in the novel but he had many restrictions. The vampires look for conquering and ruling their victims. The novel shows vampires as problematic beings. Here, the monarchy was used to describe class, racial and sexual behavior. There was also a big uncertainty regarding the stability of the gender. There was a destabilization of the roles of various genders. In this novel instead of bloodlust, Count Dracula is more encouraged with romance. Dracula was pursued by the publication of romantic works of fiction.