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Violence and Power Within Draculas Grasp      passim many types of literature, violence exists to enhance the readers interest in order to fetch a sense of excitement or conflict to a novel. This asseveration withholds much truthfulness due to the fact that without violence in a piece of literature such as Dracula by Bram Stoker, the eyepatch would not have the same impact if it was lacking violence. Draculas power and evilness led to the violent happenings which began with the conflict of Jonathans inner struggle, as compared to the conflict which blossomed later on on with good versus evil.     One case of violence that had occurred, not beneficial for its own sake, happened in chapter seven, where it stated in the log of the "Demeter", "On 14 July was somewhat anxious about crew. Men all steady fellows, who sailed with me before. companion could not make out what was wrong they only told him there was something, and cros s themselves. Mate lost temper with one of them that day and struck him. expect fierce quarrel, but all was quiet"(pg.87). Therefore, this type of violence rarely ever occurred before thus, this action was foreshadowing evil. Eventually, this evil took place when suffering old Mr. Swales was found dead with his fill in broken. Mina Murry wrote in her journal about the incident, "...poor old Mr. Swales was found dead this morning on our seat, his neck being broken. He had evidently, as the doctor sa...