Bram Stoker Eulogy

“I sometimes think we must all be mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats,” spoken by Bram Stoker’s most memorable book character, Dracula. Quite fitting to the character of Dracula which in actuality was a image of Stoker’s overbearing boss.
Abraham “Bram” Stoker was born near Dublin, Ireland on November 8, 1847. He was the third of seven children to his father, who is unnamed, and his mother, Charlotte. At a very young age Stoker had been diagnosed with an unidentified illness that kept him bed-ridden until the age of seven. This condition that he lived in for the first several years of his life probably aid to his shyness and bookish personality as an adolescent. But at this time unlike that of his childhood, Stoker had developed into a very athletic teenager. Since a young age Stoker had always wanted to become a writer, but in contradiction to his father’s plans, didn’t at first get to live out his dream. Instead his father steered ...