Dracula: The story of a terrorist against order

ABSTRACTDRACULA: THE STORY OF A TERRORIST AGAINST ?ORDER?Körpe, Ahmet EmreIn Dracula, Stoker deals with the harmful effects of capitalism acting uponenvironment and people. He depicts bourgeois characters as neurotic, and asproducts of industrialism. Count Dracula fights against bourgeoisie and threatens thecapitalist order. Thus, the novel represents Stoker?s disgust with capitalism and thenew social classes it created. Through the clash between vampires and sentimentalcharacters, he reveals his desire to amalgamate the Victorian paradigm with thefeudal, more humane one.Bourgeoisie rejects the past, thinking that those times were ?barbaric and nasty.?Stoker, however, shows that medieval paradigm was a humane one. Although heexploits the archetypal fears of both the characters and the readers, he reveals thatthose ages were more virtuous when compared with the nineteenth century. ForStoker, the ?modern? world is hypocritical; there is real tyranny in the ?civilized?paradigm.Dracula belongs to the past paradigm. His hatred of the general hypocrisy in thecapitalist world turns out to be his virtue. He converts bourgeois characters to his ownparadigm. By converting characters he, in fact, creates free individuals.What Stoker is after is not the appraisal of the medieval paradigm, but rather asuggestion that an amalgamation between the two paradigms is necessary.However, he knows that Dracula and what he represents will not be able to find aplace in the modern world. The defeat of the Count at the end should be read as thewarning of Stoker for the coming of capitalist dystopia or neo-imperialism.