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Bram Stoker symbolizes the Count as a lifeless and pale entity shown through the quote I bent over him, and tried to find any sign of life, but in vain. Which here clearly portrays the Count as a being without life, which could suggest that capitalists do not have an idea of the harsh circumstances they embed onto the lower class, as they themselves are without life from their continuous exploitation of their laborers. Due to Dracula being a symbol as a capitalist, then it clearly highlights that capitalism is ruining society and all of the miserly capitalists are unaware of the true aspects of living, also it clearly highlights how Stoker is showing Karl Marxs representation of Marxism by criticizing capitalism in the way by portraying the capitalists as lifeless and dead inside, due to their harsh and malicious mistreatment of the lower classes in society. Here, Stoker is showing the reader that capitalism is only benefitting the bourgeoisie, and the majority of society, which is the lower class, is being significantly being taken advantage of by the capitalist society by contributing mainly by manual labor and being hardly paid enough to live, by the not understanding capitalists that have no sign of life. Stoker himself was socially conservative. Social conservatism is a political philosophy and variety of conservatism which places an emphasis on traditional power structures over social pluralism. They also engaged with the economic insecurity of lower-class and benefitting their economic instability. The working class hardly feature i

n the novel, and those that do are essentially caricatures of reality. Yet it is a narrative about exploitation, and the use and abuse of power, as much as a tale about vampires which could possibly show that Stoker may have believed that capitalism was an exploitive system where the people involved were lifeless due to their mistreatment of others for their own gain.
Marxists believe that within society, people think and behave according to basic economic factors. Those factors are derived from the dominant class imposing their beliefs upon the lower class in order to conform to the standards and beliefs the more dominant class and make them believe, by working for them, that that they can achieve these standards, but in fact they cannot. Dracula represents a class struggle between the capitalist bourgeois and the character of Dracula as a monopolist who controls a significant portion of the market, and Dracula worked in relation to the bourgeois fears of domination from above from the monopolistic Dracula shown through the quote: I don’t want to talk to you: you don’t count now; the Master is at hand. This clearly shows that Stoker is showing that the Count, being an exploitative capitalist, has influence and power over others even within conversations backing up the theory that, minds are not free at all, they only think they are, highlighting to the reader that capitalists are arrogant due to the control and supremacy they hold upon others as they are controlling and higher in society than anyone else in the average, standard classes.