Further I noticed how unrealistically easy the characters get things done just by using Arthur’s title.

I noticed the author’s peculiar vision on how women should behave: Mina is constantly being told what a wonderful wife she is just because she types out her husband’s notes. Another is that vampires must usually sleep in coffins but Stoker’s has to sleep in the soil from his homeland. The most important difference is that Stoker’s vampire can survive daylight his powers just lessen a bit. The book is not one continuous whole, it is a compilation of cuttings from newspapers, fragments of diaries, letters, journals and telegrams from Mina, Jonathan, Lucy, Arthur, Quincey, Jack and Dr Van Helsing, together telling the story from their point of view more or less in chronological order.Įven though Dracula is considered one of the most, or the most important story on vampires, Stoker’s vampire is somewhat different from the vampires in other books, movies and stories. Arthur Holmwood Van Hellsing, Seward and the Harkers start the hunt for count Dracula, a spectacular quest in which Mina is almost lost to vampirism and Quincey dies saving humanity. With the help of Lucy’s other admirers, the Texan Quincey Morris and Hon. Van Helsing recognizes the symptoms and does everything to save her,but his efforts are in vain. Because Dr Jack Seward, one of Lucies three admirers and her doctor, does not know that to do with the weakening Lucy, he sends for his friend and mentor Dr Abraham Van Helsing. One of Dracula’s first preys is Mina’s noble friend Lucy Westenra. When the couple returns, Dracula has already arrived in London. He manages to escape and reaches a nunnery where the nuns take care of him and send for his fiancée Mina Murray to marry him there. Soon Jonathan finds himself held captive in the castle and starts finding out about the morbid habits and evil plans of his host. He died on the 20th of April 1912, in London, survived by his wife and only child Noel.Ĭount Dracula, a vampire, the master of vampires, lives in his castle in the Carpathians, but wants to move to London, so he buys several houses there and has a young English lawyer, named Jonathan Harker, come to his castle to handle all the legal matters. In 1905 Bram Stoker suffered a stroke, after which he continued writing. Irving (1906) The lady of the shroud (1909) Famous Impostors (1910) The lair of the white worm (1911) Dracula’s Guest (1914). Other books he wrote are: The snake’s pass (1891) The mystery of the sea (1902) The jewel of the seven stars (1904) Personal reminiscences of H.

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