"Do you believe in destiny? ...that even the powers of time can be altered for one single purpose...the happiest man that walks this earth is the one that finds true love!" stated by the main character, Count Dracula in Francis Ford Coppola's sumptuous, visceral and frightening movie "Dracula". The director portrays the message that true love is eternal, invincible, and persuasive. If love is not fulfilled in life then it is effectuated afterlife, even if one has to become the servant of darkness. This determines the ceaseless conflict between pure and evil and how virtue always prevails.
Initially, love can make one do such activities that can hurt one and it is also capable of causing one to experience a long period of obscurity. For instance, Vlad the 'Impaler', a count and vicious warrior, leaves his home in Transylvania and goes off to fight in the Crusades. Falsely hearing of his death; his wife Elisabeta commits suicide. However, a monk tells the returning Dracula taking one's life is against God's law and her soul is damned therefore she cannot go to heaven. In anger, Vlad renounces God "Is this how you repay me? ...I deny you...I will rise from my grave and revenge her death with all the powers of darkness...her blood is now my life!" This quote proves that the love for Elisabeta has made Dracula angry and he promises to take revenge from God, lacking thoughts of what he is saying even though God is the most powerful existed. Furthermore, Dracula injures the cross by stabbing it with his sword, showing hatred towards God's force. The church happens to bleed and Dracula drinks from the fountain of blood. "The blood is life...and it shall be mine." This quote begins the journey of his life as Count Dracula, embracing Satan in exchange for immortality since the death of Elisabeta turns his world upside down reasoning Dracula to take an evil phase. In addition, this iniquity side of him views things very different in contrast to the majority of the world around him. For example, Jonathan Harker leaves fiancée Mina and journeys to Transylvania to meet Count Dracula to complete a real estate transaction. Jonathan dines while Dracula refuses, "You must excuse me, but I have already dined. And I never drink wine". At this point, Dracula clearly demonstrates that he has changed when refuses to drink wine given that he now only drinks blood. He has adjusted greatly over time due to the past events occurred in his life; that he views things completely opposite of others, as proof "listen to them...the children of night. What sweet music they make!" For Dracula, the wolves are the 'children of night' and they make sweet music to him where as Jonathan is irritated and feared by the wolves because he has been followed by them throughout his journey to Dracula's castle. Hence, it is obvious that love can cause one to go against the norm without thinking of what he/she is doing and the consequences of that action.
Initially, love can make one do such activities that can hurt one and it is also capable of causing one to experience a long period of obscurity. For instance, Vlad the 'Impaler', a count and vicious warrior, leaves his home in Transylvania and goes off to fight in the Crusades. Falsely hearing of his death; his wife Elisabeta commits suicide. However, a monk tells the returning Dracula taking one's life is against God's law and her soul is damned therefore she cannot go to heaven. In anger, Vlad renounces God "Is this how you repay me? ...I deny you...I will rise from my grave and revenge her death with all the powers of darkness...her blood is now my life!" This quote proves that the love for Elisabeta has made Dracula angry and he promises to take revenge from God, lacking thoughts of what he is saying even though God is the most powerful existed. Furthermore, Dracula injures the cross by stabbing it with his sword, showing hatred towards God's force. The church happens to bleed and Dracula drinks from the fountain of blood. "The blood is life...and it shall be mine." This quote begins the journey of his life as Count Dracula, embracing Satan in exchange for immortality since the death of Elisabeta turns his world upside down reasoning Dracula to take an evil phase. In addition, this iniquity side of him views things very different in contrast to the majority of the world around him. For example, Jonathan Harker leaves fiancée Mina and journeys to Transylvania to meet Count Dracula to complete a real estate transaction. Jonathan dines while Dracula refuses, "You must excuse me, but I have already dined. And I never drink wine". At this point, Dracula clearly demonstrates that he has changed when refuses to drink wine given that he now only drinks blood. He has adjusted greatly over time due to the past events occurred in his life; that he views things completely opposite of others, as proof "listen to them...the children of night. What sweet music they make!" For Dracula, the wolves are the 'children of night' and they make sweet music to him where as Jonathan is irritated and feared by the wolves because he has been followed by them throughout his journey to Dracula's castle. Hence, it is obvious that love can cause one to go against the norm without thinking of what he/she is doing and the consequences of that action.