A physical manifestation of the devil, Dracula’s depravity of humanity results in him wreaking havoc and destruction, undoing the social fabric underlying Victorian England. In an era characterised by the prominence of the Church, Dracula’s deviance from Christianity cannot go unpunished, and results in his loss of humanity. He has strayed so far from God that he has become the pure incarnate of human evil. He is doomed to a lonely existence whereby he is confined to a box during the day, and the only human connection he may sustain is by the killing of another. Described as having red eyes and fangs and holding the ability to scale walls like a lizard, Stoker also imbues Dracula with reptilian imagery which could be seen as a Biblibal allusion to serpents as symbols of evil and temptation. Dracula is not merely evil but is the anti-Christ, the nemesis of Christ himself. He mocks Christianity and reinstates himself as a new maleficent deity.
