Yıl: 2023 Cilt: Sayı: 32 Sayfa Aralığı: 1460 - 1468 Metin Dili: İngilizce DOI: 10.29000/rumelide.1253867 İndeks Tarihi: 20-05-2023

An Unseen Invasion: Vampirism as Contagion in Bram Stoker’s Dracula

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As creatures that come back from the dead to haunt and hunt the living, vampires represent the fear of an uncontrollable, mysterious, foreign threat. Bram Stoker’s Gothic novel Dracula (1897) presents vampirism not only as a curse that resurrects the dead human body as an undead monster, but also as a metaphor for a contagious disease. Transgressing boundaries between life and death, human and animal, past and present, the vampire breaches Gothic purity by contaminating the individual. Arriving as an elusive, unseen disease to the English soil and subject, Dracula exposes his victims to his contaminated blood in his quest to invade Victorian England. Consuming the body by feeding on the life giving blood, contaminating the victim by causing illness and death, and transforming the human into a vampire, Dracula embodies a contagion upon Victorian society. Accordingly, the aim of this paper to explore the links between the Victorian vampire and infection, looking closely at the role of blood in the creation of the monstrous threat. To that end, this paper aims to analyse how vampirism as a disease and Dracula as an agent of contagion reflect Victorian anxieties regarding the individual identity, social changes, fears of degeneration, and invasion of a foreign Other bringing destruction within.
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Görünmez İşgal: Bram Stoker’ın Dracula romanında salgın olarak Vampirizm

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Ölümden geri dönüp yaşayanlara musallat olan ve onları avlayan yaratıklar olarak vampirler, kontrol edilemez, gizemli, yabancı tehdit unsurlarını temsil eder. Bram Stoker’ın Gotik romanı Dracula (1897) vampirizmi sadece ölü insan bedenini yaşayan ölü halinde bir canavarda dirilten bir lanet olarak değil, aynı zamanda da bulaşıcı bir hastalık metaforu olarak sunar. Hayat ve ölüm, insan ve hayvan, geçmiş ve şimdi arasındaki sınırları ihlal eden vampir, aynı zamanda Gotik saflığı da bireyi kirleterek bozar. Anlaşılmaz, görünmez bir hastalık olarak İngiliz toprağı ve öznesine ulaşan Drakula, Viktoryen İngiltere’yi işgal hedefinde kurbanlarını kendi kirlenmiş kanına maruz bırakır. Hayat veren kandan beslenerek vücudu tüketmesiyle, hastalık ve ölüme sebebiyet vererek kurbanını kirletmesiyle, ve insanı bir vampire dönüştürmesiyle Drakula Viktoryen toplum için bir salgını somutlaştırır. Bu bağlamda, bu makalenin hedefi canavarsı tehdidin oluşumunda kanın rolüne dikkatle bakarak Viktoryen vampir ve hastalık arasındaki bağları incelemektir. Bu amaçla, bu makale vampirizm hastalığı ve bulaşıcılık unsuru olarak Drakula’nın bireysel kimlik, toplumsal değişiklikler, yozlaşma korkuları, ve bünyesinde bir yıkım getiren yabancı bir Öteki tarafından işgal gibi Viktoryen dönem korkularını nasıl yansıttığını incelemeyi hedeflemektedir.
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ISNAD ÇAKIR, ECE. "An Unseen Invasion: Vampirism as Contagion in Bram Stoker’s Dracula". RumeliDE Dil ve Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi 32 (2023), 1460-1468. https://doi.org/10.29000/rumelide.1253867