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The constitutive principle in this study is that the (creative) artistic work as it has virtual connotations; it may also has in its folds symbolic and interpretive connotations that the scrutinizing researcher realizes, and this constitutive principle is completed by revealing points of similarity (or simulation) between a previous work and a later work.

this aspect is what we mean in this critical study.

this may make it obligatory to transcend the text (the novel) to research the writer's life and the circumstances of his society, which necessarily have the greatest impact on his creativity and symbolic meanings.

hence, we have not to stop at the direct semantic level in the formulation of creative works, and what is extracted from its content, taking care of the hermeneutic (or symbolic) aspect which is underlying the simplicity of the successive phrases.

this is what we find in the narrations under study.

the novel "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley, and the novel "Dracula" by Bram Stoker and its impact on the novels of Ahmed Khaled Tawfik; the novel “Frankenstein's Legend” and the novel "the Vampire".

the contemplator of the two novels "Frankenstein" by Mary Shelley, and “Frankenstein's Legend” by Ahmed Khaled Tawfik can notice that they symbolize multiple themes with important and deep connotations; Including: the idea of creation, the creature’s disobedience to the Creator “the Maker”, parenting and motherhood, instinct and the role of nature / environment in the upbringing of a child, the origin of evil, and free will.

the same is in the two novels “Dracula” by Bram Stoker, and “the Vampire” by Ahmed Khaled Tawfik; they symbolize several things, represented in the dualities of life and death, good and evil, and their subsequent religious symbolism of thinking about immortality and satisfying scientific curiosity by reaching the truth.