A+Marxist+Reading+of+Dracula

=__ The Marxist Reading __=  Marxism - A term defined by Reference.com as:  "The system of economic and political thought developed by Karl Marx, along with Friedrich Engels, especially the doctrine that the state throughout history has been a device for the exploitation of the masses by a dominant class, that class struggle has been the main agency of historical change, and that the capitalist system, containing from the first the seeds of its own decay, will inevitably, after the period of the dictatorship of the proletariat, be superseded by a socialist order and a classless society."

A Marxist reading of Dracula looks at the Count as being the rich aristocracy, whilst the protagonists are the working individuals who are fighting the oppression. The figurative monster that is Capitalist and Oppressive, could be considered to have become manifest in the form that is the horrible vampire of Count Dracula. Dracula is holding on to his un-life, and wishes to make a legion of Nosferatu to provide him with company, but also to continue on his dying household legacy, of whom he is the last. The protagonists seek to stop this at almost any cost, therefore it is quite easy to see and interpret this novel from a Marxist perspective.