Bram Stoker: Brilliant or Psychotic?

xoxo89 · 04-27-2006, 08:12 AM

hey guys
im doing an english assignment on stoker and was wondering wat ur opinion is on the following statement

"Bram Stoker: Brilliant or Psychotic?"

i would just like some ideas on wat other people think
plz note that i wont be using anything u have said directly in this assignment
this is just a starting point for me....one of which i realli need!!!

thanx heaps

cuppajoe_9 · 05-23-2006, 11:39 PM

Why does it have to be one or the other?

l6c6f6r · 08-07-2007, 03:35 AM

Abraham Stoker was a genius for creating Dracula, because it opened the western world, and "target-edly", (if there is such a word) the Victorian World, up to the realization that something so utterly Freudian as a Vampire, could be more than merely a mooching woman. However, Genius is often mistaken for Madness, because either way, a person dares to see the world for what it isn't or what it was or what it can be.
On the other hand, Stokersaw a fundamentally Xenophobic United Kingdom, and presented it with the ultimate villian, the terrifying outsider, someone to direct their Xenophobia against, and not against the actual foreigners who meant no harm in coming.
This was Stoker's true stroke of Genius I suppose, he gave his country, and in fact the world the cure for the common Xenophobe.

Zippy · 08-08-2007, 11:26 AM

The whole premise of the paper seems a little extreme. He was neither 'brilliant' (unable to get past the success of Dracula and write other worthwhile fiction) or 'psychotic' (don't see any evidence of psychotic tendencies or mental illness). He wrote one extremely influential and entertaining book. There's not much else to tell.

04-27-2006, 08:12 AM	#1
xoxo89 Registered User Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 1	Bram Stoker: Brilliant or Psychotic? hey guys im doing an english assignment on stoker and was wondering wat ur opinion is on the following statement "Bram Stoker: Brilliant or Psychotic?" i would just like some ideas on wat other people think plz note that i wont be using anything u have said directly in this assignment this is just a starting point for me....one of which i realli need!!! thanx heaps

05-23-2006, 11:39 PM	#2
cuppajoe_9 Boll Weevil Join Date: May 2006 Location: Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada Posts: 1,648 Blog Entries: 9	Why does it have to be one or the other? __________________ What is the use of a violent kind of delightfulness if there is no pleasure in not getting tired of it. - Gertrude Stein A washerwoman with her basket; a rook; a red-hot poker; th purples and grey-greens of flowers: some common feeling which held the whole together. - Virginia Woolf

08-08-2007, 11:26 AM	#4
Zippy Worthless Hack Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Near Loch Lomond, Scotland Posts: 240	The whole premise of the paper seems a little extreme. He was neither 'brilliant' (unable to get past the success of Dracula and write other worthwhile fiction) or 'psychotic' (don't see any evidence of psychotic tendencies or mental illness). He wrote one extremely influential and entertaining book. There's not much else to tell. __________________ Buy my book! - http://www.lulu.com/content/348953 "Do you understand, gentlemen, that all the horror is in just this - that there is no horror!"

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08-07-2007, 03:35 AM	#3
l6c6f6r Registered User Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 1	Abraham Stoker was a genius for creating Dracula, because it opened the western world, and "target-edly", (if there is such a word) the Victorian World, up to the realization that something so utterly Freudian as a Vampire, could be more than merely a mooching woman. However, Genius is often mistaken for Madness, because either way, a person dares to see the world for what it isn't or what it was or what it can be. On the other hand, Stokersaw a fundamentally Xenophobic United Kingdom, and presented it with the ultimate villian, the terrifying outsider, someone to direct their Xenophobia against, and not against the actual foreigners who meant no harm in coming. This was Stoker's true stroke of Genius I suppose, he gave his country, and in fact the world the cure for the common Xenophobe.