Bram Stoker 's Dracula - Book Report

Bram Stoker named his novel after the main villain of the story, Count Dracula. In the story, Dracula lives in an old castle in the mountains, where all the nearby villages live in fear of him. Dracula himself claims that he is related to Attila the Hun, and that he has also led troops to victory. Dracula calls upon Jonathan Harker to help him obtain an estate in London, where he further plans to spread his reign over. To his dismay, Jonathan finds out about his plan, and tries to stop him. This begins the long journey which leads to the death of the vampire. Once Dracula reaches England, he sets about turning Lucy into a vampire first. By the time of her death, the Harkers and the rest of the group have a better understanding of who and what

With castles, hidden streets, waterways, recurring rainy weather, interesting European architecture, and mystique, London is the perfect location for Bram Stoker's Dracula. London: The capital of Great Britain, and the center of attention in the nineteenth century, due to the many incidents that were going on at the time. The novel includes many daunting scenes, such as when Dracula heaves a sack withholding a deceased child before three female vampires. It is no surprise why he choose London to be the setting of his novel. London is "exotic" and unknown. Stoker is obviously inspired by London's castles, hidden streets, and church yards. Because of all of these points, London is the perfect gothic setting for Stoker's “Dracula.”

The story of Dracula is about an ancient vampire who moves from Transylvania, his native country to London, where he seduces and bites a young woman by the

Dracula was a Vampire who grew older but as he consumed blood, it made him look ten times younger than his actual age. Dracula had a problem, if he did not drink blood he would become sick and he would grow older. This did not help him but it only hurt him and earned him more enemies. People began to realize his faults and go against him. There were many secrets that nobody knew about Vlad Dracula. He avenged his father by killing thousands of innocent

In the novel Dracula, Dracula is supposed to be a fictional character. A character who came out of a person’s dream or a nightmare. Dracula is a character who is technically dead and is most powerful once the sun has set. He lives only by drinking the blood of humans. In addition, he also kills them and transforms them into a vampire. He is on a mission to conquer England by making people into vampires. In the film version of Dracula, Dracula says to Mina “I have crossed oceans of time to find you” (Coppola). In the movie, Dracula becomes a vampire after his wife commits suicide by jumping into a river. As a result he was heartbroken. He nails his sword on the holy cross and asks God to live only on blood. After centuries he comes back to life after he is dead to find his

Dracula is said to be one of the most classic gothic Literature in history. The story starts off fast and imettadiley takes a turn for the worst. The story started foreshadowing from the very beginning from wolves chasing him, the cab driver referring to him as a dead travel fast, the bars on the windows.As the story goes on Jonathan is naive and ignores the warning signs of why he should be afraid of the castle and Dracula.

In the 19th century Bram Stoker wrote the infamous novel, Dracula. This novel was composed in the style of letters, journal entries, newspaper articles and telegrams in order to convey to the reader a realistic story. The story of Dracula is about an ancient vampire who moves to London from his native country of Transylvania. In London, Dracula seduces and bites a young woman by the name of Lucy Westenra. When Lucy falls sick, no one knows how to help her because while Dracula has bitten her many times she has always been in a trance. Lucy?s friends decide to join together to combat what ever is ailing Lucy. In hopes of some help, Lucy?s friend Dr. Seward asks an old mentor of his by the name of Dr. Van Helsing to come to London

Jonathan concludes that, “[Dracula] a man who never in the country; and who did not evidently do much in the way of business, his knowledge and acumen were wonderful” (37). For Jonathan, Dracula seems like a brilliant man and he is, but to readers Dracula is simply testing the waters to make sure it is safe to enter. Dracula has been living at his castle in Transylvania for a long time, and barely makes any contact with the rapidly growing outside world. This is very similar to the far East, because they have a long history, but chooses to keep to themselves until the Europeans start to invade their land.

Bram Stoker’s Dracula, originally written in 1897, makes a name for itself as a seemingly immortal tale, continuing to inspire endless film, literature, and stage adaptations over a hundred years later. The story first centers around a man named Jonathan Harker, who ventures on a business trip from London to Castle Dracula in Transylvania. Unaware of his host’s inhumane characteristics, he reluctantly agrees to stay for an extended period of time under the Count’s supervision. Gradually, however, Harker begins to realize the absurdities that occur within the castle walls and just barely escapes before a deadly fate at the hands of his vampire host. The story shifts then to the point of view of Mina, Harker’s fiancee, and

In Dracula, a key component to its story is its supernatural elements which are a key element of Gothic literature giving forth the whole story being about vampires.

The novel Dracula was written in 1897 by Irish author Bram Stolker. This gothic novel introduced one of the best fictional characters, Count Dracula, and was the start to many vampire fantasies. When reading this novel, the reader might think that Stokers main purpose of writing it was to be entertaining and scary, but does one ever think that maybe there could be a hidden message behind this novel. Maybe this novel was not supposed to be a gothic vampire fantasy but instead a trade scenario. In Dracula, Stoker makes many references, such as the symbolic meaning for dirt and blood , which make the ready believe this to be true. And like any great economic scandal, Dracula is not really dead rather than in hiding. The references are not all direct, but if the reader reads the novel with an economic lens he or she will question Stokers true purpose of writing this novel.

Dracula is a horror novel is set in London and Transylvania in the mid 1800’s. The book starts with Johnathon Harker heading to Transylvania on a business trip to sell Dracula, a wealthy count in Transylvania, some real estate in London. After some strange incidents of Count Dracula attempting to suck Johnathon’s blood, and imprison him, Johnathon escapes. The novel then switches to Mina Murray, Johnathon’s fiancé’s, and her friend, Lucy Westenra’s, points of view through their letters. Its mostly just gossip, but there are several references to Johnathon. Next, it shifts to Dr. John Seward, sometimes referred to as Jack’s, dairy with a description of Renfield who is a patient at Jack’s asylum. After this, it alternates points of view, with

Today, “Dracula” still catch the attention from the audience and a lot of movies were inspired by it. The story starts with a guy name Jonathan Harker who live in London, United Kingdom. He is a lawyer and he also working part time finding house in England for rich foreigner. One day, he received a request from Count Dracula who live in Transylvania, a country of Eastern Europe. As a request, Count Dracula wanted an old house with a large garden. After they communicated, the Count asked Jonathan to visit and bring the agreement paper for him to sign.

The novel Dracula by Bram Stoker, is a horror story that involves a group of male protagonists, Jonathan Harker, a solicitor, Dr. John Seward, an asylum doctor and Dr. Van Helsing, a scientist, who are out to kill The Count as they fear he may bring more tragedy to their homeland. Before all this chaos, it starts off with Jonathan going to Transylvania to help Dracula with some real estate business. On his journey and stay at the castle, he experiences strange and odd things. He soon finds out that he is The Counts prisoner and tries to escape. His escape was successful but his stay at the castle made him go crazy and he now suffers from a brain fever. Lucy, Mina’s friend, and Mina, Jonathan’s wife, are prisoners of The Count as well but

Lucy begins to feel mysteriously ill. Two small wounds appear on her neck from where Dracula bit her. and she is extremely sickly and pale. She is kept alive by receiving multiple blood donations. She needed one nearly every day until she finally died. Lucy eventually becomes a vampire herself and Van Helsing hunt her down and kill her. These series of events represent oppression slowly creeping up on the middle class. Dracula’s presence is directly affecting Team Van Helsing by turning Lucy into a vampire and also by instilling fear of death into the group. The oppression continues after that. Mina was also bitten by Dracula as well. In addition to being bitten, she was forced to drink his blood. In addition to being physically oppressed by Dracula, she is also hurt by him when he is not present. Stoker writes "As he placed the Wafer on Mina 's forehead, it had seared it - had burned into the