Van Helsing

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

After reading the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker, we learn many things about the style of writing he used to capture the reader’s attention. We also learned about the main ideas Stoker brought in his writing, like how evil is all around us and how when humans join together, they could overcome the evil. In addition, he also describes the protagonist of the story and the way it behaves throughout the whole story and how it gets involved with all the characters. Last but not least, Stoker shows the reader

emulate a woman of propriety. She is the very bane of what a progressive woman looks like but not when looking at her through a gynocritics lens. To prepare the reader for the ideology of the “new and proper woman,” Stoker gives Dr. Steward and Van Helsing separate spheres from that of Lucy’s and Mina’s Character. In chapter fifteen, they are now experts in the dealings and explanation of Lucy the human and Lucy the Un-Dead. As we read the chapters sixteen and seventeen, it is preconditioning us to

a vampire possesses. Van Helsing states, “He can, within his range, direct the elements: the storm, the fog, the thunder; he can command all the meaner things: the rat, and the owl, and the bat—the moth, and the fox, the wolf” (Stoker 237). Van Helsing, the vampire expert in the novel tells some key powers that the vampire Dracula has which is the ability to control weather and the ability to command animals such as: rats, owls, bats, moths, foxes and wolves. When Van Helsing is talking about Dracula’s

Throughout the world, humans in various cultures have shared well-known myths and legends that are passed down from generations. These oral folklores are often quite entertaining, but they also recount a history of origin or culture. For example, some of these story-like legends can be linked to actual mysterious events that have taken place in a specific time period or a certain place and therefore can be quite realistic. Dracula, a well-known “real-life legend”, is preferably one of the more dark

Stoker uses when describing Dr. Van Helsing Leads us to believe that Dr. Van Helsing’s character is very intelligent, even-minded, well-educated,and has great instincts.Without Dr. Van Helsing’s intelligence or level head ,The fate of many characters would have been completely different. It’s because of Dr. Van Helsing that Mina and the others live to tell the story. When Mina was attacked by Dracula and forced to drink his blood,which made her “ Impure”. Dr. Van Helsing uses his intelligence and wit

chapter 13 of Dracula by Bram Stoker, Van Helsing laughs hysterically after Lucy 's funeral. How did this come about? Lucy was sleepwalking one night when her friend, Mina, finds her with two puncture wounds on her neck. Lucy continues to have sleep disturbances and becomes pale and weak, requiring several blood transfusions from each of three men who have all asked Lucy to marry them: Arthur Holcomb, Quincey Morris, and Dr. Seward. Dr. Seward 's friend, Van Helsing cared for Lucy during her illness

and weakness. John Seward the former apprentice of Van Helsing is one of the main characters that are introduced to us by his journal entry. Seward is a talented young doctor, who now works at an insane asylum with his new patient Renfield. Throughout the novel Seward conducts many interviews with Renfield to help him better understand his view on eating life-consuming psychosis. Seward conducts his interviews on the basis of science; Van Helsing on the other hand uses religion and superstition to

composed from letters, journal and diary entries, telegrams, and newspaper clippings. Jonathan Harker, Mina Murray (later Mina Harker), and Dr. Seward write the largest contributions to the novel although the writings of Lucy Westenra and Abraham Van Helsing constitute some key parts of the book. The novel has a slightly journalistic feel, as it is a harrowing account supposedly written by the people who witnessed the book's events. A young Englishman named Jonathan Harker travels through Transylvania

Each holds a high position in the society; Seward and Van Helsing are acclaimed doctors, Lord Godalming comes from an affluent family, and Harker is a solicitor.        Van Helsing however, is seen as the chief paternal figure.  He acts as the leader of the men and the architect of the plot to root out and remove the threat Count Dracula brings.  He also cares