Although Bram Stokers Dracula was published in 1847, it still lives on long past its time. In the story, Stoker uses many realistic conflicts that still exist in the world today. Religion is used in the novel as a way of protection from the count. Evil exists today in our society. Nonfiction horror stories and movies fill up theaters and real spirits and demons haunt parts of the globe. Stoker gives the reader a scare with his words and his story but I also see that he gives the readers some safety and feeling of comfort as well. By giving the characters religion to protect themselves and cast out the count with religion, Stoker gives the readers an understanding that religion can protect one from evil. It is important today that religion worked as a form of protection in the novel. In today’s era humans are faced with many obstacles that are similar in the novel Dracula. In the story Van Helsing uses the Catholic sacrament of the eucharist and a crucifix to protect him and his crew from the count. ‘He can not go where he lists; he who is not of nature has yet to obey some of nature’s laws-why we know not (211). In this part of the novel, Van Helsing is explaining to Harker, Mina, Arthur, and Dr. Seward some of the limits Dracula has. Stoker does not give the characters an understanding of why Dracula has these limits but I believe Stoker gives the reader a clue that explains evil is not fully allowed to do as it pleases and must abide by realistic circumstances in the world. This is important because it shows that evil must follow certain guidelines and does not have full advantage over anything. “He may not enter anywhere at the first, unless there be some one of the household who bid him to come; though afterwards he can come as he please” (211), Stoker makes this significant to the real world by not allowing Dracula to have full access to anywhere he pleases just as evil in today’s world does not have access to places w