Dracula

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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 sleeps in a coffin and especially because the dirt in his coffin is consecrated and , being evil, uses this ground to rest in. has several of the powers that Christians believe no one but God could control. For instance, 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. 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, is relying on humans to renew his life after death and thus not concentrating on God as the source of life. As ...

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the Anti-Christ.2.) The novel 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. 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 though he is longing for her kiss. Another time in which similar to this is during the end of the book when Van Helsing encounters the three vampire ladies. The ladies appear the nigh Mina and Van Helsing are ...

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