It´s very probable that what this book is underlying is an inner fight that Stoker had within himself: that which made a reference to his personal fears. This apprehension which was growing inside of him and that would end up becoming that monster (Dracula) that all in all was nothing more than the resoult of his own anguish and represions as well as those of Victorians societies. However, the vampire so much feared by everyone is nothing more than a reflect of these societies and the author, a monster who cannot be controled in spite of trying to hide it. The vampire therefore isn´t a simple ghost but rather a stand in of the characters, a deformed reflection (or maybe rebuild) of everything they want to abolish or eleminate from themselves. While, it is thought, that everything "evil" always comes from abroad and never from the inside. That was the great fright that Stoker felt, something gloomy that wasn´t only present in his life but rather a societies cancer spreading from the inside with its own ghosts. Let this be the anguish of an active woman, let it be fear to less sexual conventions, whatever fear this might Stoker possibly was conscious of it , and glinted it metaphorically in his text.
 

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