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CALERO ABADIA, Adolfo José. Dracula: From Hero to Tyrant. Núcleo [online]. 2013, vol.25, n.30, pp.123-148. ISSN 0798-9784.

Bram Stoker’s character Dracula is probably the last great Western literary myth. He has often been studied in the light of Freudian interpretations that see the vampire as a subject of latent sexual desires, symbolized by blood. However, leaving behind modernity, a wider analysis of the character reveals a subject undergoing a transition from cultural pre-eminence to the darkest areas of human existence. In this sense, Dracula goes from being the hero of a region struggling against the Turkish invasion to become, through the diabolical pact of Schola Necromantis, an undead, a being trapped between the world of the living and the spectral domains, instituting a tyranny that seeks to expand to the West, incredulous of his existence. Thus, through Stoker’s literary plan, Dracula abandons his initial heroic status to assume the universal typology of the tyrant.

Palabras clave : Dracula; Bram Stoker; hero; tyrant; modernity.

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