The meaning of terror. The creation of horror image and gloomy atmosphere in the novel is "created and realized by spreading the demon world centered on vampire Drakula", which makes readers feel like a horror drama staged in a dark and filthy castle. At the beginning of the novel, a series of mysterious and sensational images suddenly appeared, such as remote castles, desolate dark nights, suddenly arrival werewolves, strange bats, smoke in the dark and so on. As a background factor, it evokes readers' memories and impressions of gloomy and horrible scenes, thus showing readers a world of fear and terror. This technique is also widely used in gothic novels in the19th century. On the one hand, it introduces the characteristics and identity of Dracula, on the other hand, it also uses these images to expand readers' imagination, enhance readers' understanding, and lay a horrible and flustered tone for the whole novel. The existence and perception of Dracula's image is the self-perception of human eyes or psychology, and it is a vivid description and presentation of the current social mentality. Jonathan's visit and familiarity with the castle actually started the contest and struggle between "justice" and "evil", suggesting the subtle relationship of conquest and resistance between the British Empire and the colonized countries at the end of 19. This novel presents readers with a strange world. In such a world, readers are anxious as monsters are terrible.

Dracula, a vampire, represents a strong desire for possession and racial aggression. He tried to invade London from far away Eastern Europe, control women's consciousness while they were sleeping, suck their blood to breed his own race, expand his territory and dominate the British Empire. At the same time, the women who were fed with blood were also transformed into aliens in the society at that time. They broke away from male authority, were no longer bound by traditional ideas and customs, and freely expressed their likes and dislikes and desires, which had the characteristics of "new women" appearing in British society at the end of 19, but this new phenomenon was not recognized by the mainstream people at that time. Dracula's attempt to subvert the image of the harmonious and orthodox order of British society is the shadow and self-portrait of the history of the British Empire's capital accumulation and wanton colonial expansion, and it is an anti-writing of imperial colonial rule. At the same time, Dracula's whole plot is the concern of the declining British Empire about its own political future, and it is the expression of the faint concern of the dependent countries that are resisting colonialism and the emerging countries that are developing strongly. Dracula, the hero of the novel, is different from the ugly and unintelligible animal images of vampires in ancient myths and legends. Stoke described the vampire as a hypocrite who is gentle, intelligent, attractive to the opposite sex and can control the victim's thoughts, but the essence is very different from the appearance. The vampire's characterization is frightening, with peculiar internal quality, extreme bloodthirsty violence, absurd and obedient behavior, ambitious but distorted, strong desire to conquer but crazy and abnormal conquest, breaking through the religious tradition of society, encouraging heresy, rushing out of the forbidden area and "luring women out of male authority". These distinctive features highlight the heterogeneous image of vampires and the "other", and this heterogeneous image embodies a strong "other"

Although Dracula, the Count of Vampires, is the origin of vampire novels, as a story written more than 100 years ago, there are still some shortcomings in creative techniques and details. First of all, the novel begins with a grand opening. Terrible wolves, mysterious castles and elegant old earl easily attract people to the vampire world constructed by the author. However, it is puzzling that the story comes to an abrupt end. The earl's head was easily cut off, and a short plot description put an end to such a grand story, giving people a feeling of anticlimactic. Secondly, the plot arrangement in the book is not entirely appropriate. In the second half of the story, the protagonists have been keeping the plot in vigil, meeting and discussion, and their movements are slightly lacking, which naturally weakens their readability.