Bram Stoker's Dracula: Anti-Christianity

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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 ...

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God is no longer present 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.
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 ...

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