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A comparison between Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Brian Friel’s Translations from a post-colonial perspective.


Bram Stoker’s ‘Dracula’, is one of the most interesting examples of literary productivity throughout the years. It contains irs own metaphor of vitality and possessiveness, as it is about an abnormal creature who transports himself from an earlier era to the very hearts of modernity and portrays issues of colonialism. Bram Stker, born in the northern suburbs of Dublin in 1847 travelled to England, where he was to base his novel. ‘Dracula’ included many inspirations from Stoker’s own life and the entire Gaelic tradition of folklore, as Ireland is one of the most superstitious-ridden lands in Europe. It is possible to discern non-vampire elements from Irish folk superstition in Dracula. The devil, for instance, to whom the Count is related, is traditionall in Irish lore depicted in human guise. However, Bram Stoker and the Irish in the early 19th century ...