The Vampire What boundaries does the Vampire threaten? ----------------------------------------------------------- Discuss possible answers to this question with reference to at least two critical or theoretical essays and at least two tellings' of the Dracula story. ___________________________________________________________ The Vampire in Dracula threatens the very existence of Victorian England. Stoker constructs the vampire as an embodiment of threat by surpassing his Gothic novelist predecessors to bring the threat of the Gothic home to Victorian England (Arata 119). This in turn …showed first 75 words of 9643 total…

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