Dracula As Christian Allegory

Bram Stoker's novel can be understood as a Christian allegory, the struggle between Christ and Satan, between light and darkness.

For stoker the vampire is the reverseDemon to Puritan Christianity,

Dracula is a grotesque parody of Christ: "He who eats my flesh and drinks my blood will live forever" because "blood is life". HePromises resurrection and immortality, although the first imposes its mournful conditions and the second is only an animated physicality.
There is a passage that exemplifiesthis: the parody of the sacrament of the Eucharist, in which Dracula opens a vein in the chest with a nail and forces Mina to drink from it. In this allegorical scheme,Rendfield would be like John the Baptist announcing the arrival of his master, and the invisibility of the Count emphasizes the religious allegory: we can’t see vampires becausewe do not believe in them, or because we decide not to see those aspects of ourselves that most resemble the vampire. It might seem that the book was a mocking inversion ofChristian symbols and motifs. However, in the end, when Dracula dies, Mina says his face showed "a look of peace, such as I never could have imagined might have restedthere", because in Christian faith, it is said that when people die they look peaceful because they know they are going to a better place.

Mina, Jonathan and Van Helsingsurvive. They used Christian idolatrous items throughout the novel to keep themselves safe and fight the vampires , such as crucifixes and communion wafers. These charactersbelieved that the items would save them and in the end they won over the vampires. This shows that Stoker thought Christianity meant salvation from the evils of the world.