Probably Stoker felt facinated by human behaviour and the conduct relations that had been established among them like the way of imposing someones will to the other (like the vampires) and so he showed it us to in the novel. On the one hand we have in the vampire the being devoid of any moral or law, egoist, and without prejudice, in him we could see our instinct, our less civilized "ego", real knower from what he really wants to make (at the same way the vampire realize it) if it wasn´t because it exists an exterior that obstruct to realize it, this can been seen also ass the methaphor of the child, innocent and without any morals values. On the other hand we have those who wish to destroy the vampire (Van Helsing, Seward, Harker, etc.) who could be the image of our conscient (trying to repress what he fear of his more unknown part) or of the extern norms which are being imposed to us by society. It represents adult consciousness and the spirit of sacrifice and giving it up for the correct running of societies that the child is not capable to realize. So, this interpretation of this novel represents a moral dilema between what I have to do to been accepted (Van Helsing, Harker, Mina, etc.) and what I really wish to do despist obligations and norms to which society imposes us.

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