The story is a series of documented diaries written by the characters in the story starting out with Jonathan Harker. Johnathan Harker is on a journey on a train to Castle Dracula in Transylvania. The reason why Count Dracula goes to Transylvania is to sign off a real estate transaction with Count Dracula, Count Dracula is selling his castle because he wants to move somewhere else. Johnathan Harker goes on his trip to meet Count Dracula through the countryside on a train. While on the train during one of the train stops, Johnathan gets visited by the local peasants. The local peasants warn Johnathan Hacker that Count Dracula is frightful and dangerous, but Johnathan Harker does not listen to them. Instead, he ignores what they day and still …show more content…
go on his journey to Count Dracula’s castle on the train. It took a couple of days for Johnathan Harker to reach Count Dracula’s home, but when he does, the castle is all gloomy and frightful. Johnathan Harker meets Count Dracula with garlic wrapped around his neck from one of the house guests who welcomed Johnathan Harker to the castle. Johnathan Harker meets Count Dracula and describes him as him as a well-educated man and does not understands why everyone is so scared of him. After a couple of days have passed since Johnathan Hacker has arrived in Count Dracula, Jonathan Harker realizes that Count Dracula has trapped him in the castle, but does not know for what.
Jonathan Harker attempts to escape from the castle by climbing down the stone walls to go back to his fiancée, Mina Murray who lives in England. Mina finds Lucy, her friend in the towns cemetery sleepwalking and believes that she saw a dark person with glowing red eyes there. While Lucy was in the cemetery, Count Dracula made Lucy then becomes pale and ill all of the sudden from two tiny red marks on the side of her throat. Lucy then suffers from brain fever later on, but does not know that Count Dracula did it. Johnathan Harker and Mina reappear in the city of Buda-Pest to see how Lucy is doing after the attack from Count Dracula. Van Helsing arrives in Whitby and orders Lucy to go to her chambers to be covered with garlic to protect her. Lucy begins to slowly recover from the attack, but her mother does not understand why her daughter has garlic around her neck and removes the garlic from her. Lucy then get worst after the garlic was removed from her neck and then become blood thirsty, but do not know she is transitioning into a vampire. Lucy then sleeps for a long time which leads to Lucy being proclaimed as dead to the doctors. Dr. Seward and Dr. Van Helsing spent several days trying to revive Lucy and perform four blood transfusions to help Lucy stay alive because they think that …show more content…
she is dead, but is really not..
What Dr. Seward and Dr. Van Helsing didn’t know is that they were completing the last step to active the transition for Lucy to become a vampire. Dr. Seward and Dr. Van Helsing tried their best to revive Lucy, but she died, not really. Lucy’s mother had a fatal heart attack after hearing Lucy had died and then was eaten by wolfs
because the men didn’t guard her like they were supposed to. After Lucy’s death to the doctors, Van Helsing leads Holmwood, Seward, and Quincey Morris to her tomb for her funeral. Van Helsing finds out that Lucy has been transformed into a vampire like Count Dracula, but the men don’t believe him when he tells them that. The men remain unconvinced that Lucy is a vampire till they see Lucy preying on a defenseless child to suck blood out of the child. The men then find the ritual of vampire slaying and agrees to vampire slay Lucy’s soul so that her soul will return to eternal rest. While Lucy goes back to sleeps in the tomb, Holmwood plunges a stake through her heart, decapitate her head, and stuff her mouth with a lot of garlic. After the men do this stuff to Lucy in the tomb while she was sleeping, the men pledge to destroy Count Dracula for turning Lucy into a vampire. Mina and Jonathan then get married and return to England to kill Count Dracula with the others after they told them what happened. Mina helps Van Helsing collect the various diary and journal entries that Harker, Seward, and the others have written about their experience. The group then tries to learn all they can about Dracula’s affairs with people. Van Helsing and the others track down the boxes of Earth that the count uses as a sanctuary during the night from Dracula’s castle. Then one of Dr. Seward’s mental patients, Renfield, lets Count Dracula into the asylum. In the asylum, the people were staying there and then Count Dracula bites Mina. Mina then begins to slowly transitions into a vampire. The men hunt down Count Dracula to kill him and realized that Count Dracula had fled to Transylvania. The men pursue to find Count Dracula by dividing their groups to two and tracking Count Dracula across land and sea all over Europe. Van Helsing takes Mina with him so that they can kill the three female vampires who tried to seduce Jonathan Harker while he stayed in Count Dracula’s castle. After they killed the three female vampires of Count Dracula, Van Helsing and Mina seals the entrances of the castle with sacred objects to vampires. Jonathan and Quincey find Count Dracula in one of the boxed of Earth on an abandoned ship named The Czarina Catherineis. Both Johnathan and Quincey cuts up Count Dracula into pieces and drives a stake into Count Dracula’s heart. Count Dracula then crumbles into dust in the box that he was in.
As she sits at the “churchyard” we can almost see her reflecting the ideas of the Victorian gentleman whose morals are based on religion, and as a male you had the right to go anywhere or do anything you please as long as you keep your gentlemanly status. The setting of the “churchyard” is also ironic to the acts that follow as there was something “long and black, bending over the half-reclining white figure.” Dracula is our demon character in “black,” physically dominating over Lucy while Lucy is portrayed as innocent in “white.” This is much like “The nightmare” painting by Henry Fuseli, which portrays a demon sitting on top of an unconscious woman. The resemblance to Dracula is seen with the demon hiding in the shadows, but still controlling the woman by putting himself in a position on top of her while she is unaware. When Mina finally wakes up Lucy “she trembled a little, and clung to me.” This reaction could indicate that Lucy was unable to stop Dracula from biting her and was terror-stricken from the
Dracula can turn humans into the Undead. An example is the three women whom he has turned into vampires, creatures of the night. Renfield desires to be made into a creature of the night. He views Dracula as his master and seeks only to serve him. Lucy is made into a vampire by Dracula. However, the most memorable person he has given birth t...
In the novel Dracula, by Bram Stoker, there is much evidence of foreshadowing and parallels to other myths. Dracula was not the first story featuring a vampire myth, nor was it the last. Some would even argue that it was not the best. However, it was the most original, using foreshadowing and mood to create horrific imagery, mythical parallels to draw upon a source of superstition, and original narrative elements that make this story unique.
To date, the closest adaptation of the original novel is Francis Ford Coppola’s Bram Stoker’s Dracula. The basic overview of the story has the departure of Jonathan Harker from his fiancée Mina Murray in London, visiting Transylvania where he has an encounter with the evil Dracula. In England we are introduced to the characters of Lucy, a socialite, and her three suitors. Through terror Jonathan escapes back home, while Dracula arrives in London where he attacks Lucy, Mina’s friend, and Mina herself. Dr. Van Helsing arrives as help with the unknown, and in the end a climatic battle in the Transylvanian Castle Dracula takes place. Dracula is an epistolary novel that consists of journal entries, letters, telegram, phonographic recordings of Dr. Seward, and excerpts from newspaper articles, meaning it was written from a number of perspectives. The film has done its best to this and is witnessed through a variety of viewpoints.
This fictional character was soon to be famous, and modified for years to come into movie characters or even into cereal commercials. But the original will never be forgotten: a story of a group of friends all with the same mission, to destroy Dracula. The Count has scared many people, from critics to mere children, but if one reads between the lines, Stoker’s true message can be revealed. His personal experiences and the time period in which he lived, influenced him to write Dracula in which he communicated the universal truth that good always prevails over evil. Religion was a big part of people’s lives back in Stoker’s time.
A noticeable difference in the way movies have changed over the years is evident when comparing and contrasting two films of different eras which belong to the same genre and contain the same subject matter. Two vampire movies, Dracula and Bram Stoker's Dracula, present an interesting example of this type of study.
The late nineteenth century Irish novelist, Bram Stoker is most famous for creating Dracula, one of the most popular and well-known vampire stories ever written. Dracula is a gothic, “horror novel about a vampire named Count Dracula who is looking to move from his native country of Transylvania to England” (Shmoop Editorial Team). Unbeknownst of Dracula’s plans, Jonathan Harker, a young English lawyer, traveled to Castle Dracula to help the count with his plans and talk to him about all his options. At first Jonathan was surprised by the Count’s knowledge, politeness, and overall hospitality. However, the longer Jonathan remained in the castle the more uneasy and suspicious he became as he began to realize just how strange and different Dracula was. As the story unfolded, Jonathan realized he is not just a guest, but a prisoner as well. The horror in the novel not only focuses on the “vampiric nature” (Soyokaze), but also on the fear and threat of female sexual expression and aggression in such a conservative Victorian society.
Over the years people have given new out looks on the original vampire, Dracula. He was a tall non-attractive looking man who would never come out during the day. Hollywood however has made new vampire stories such as Twilight, True Blood, and The Vampire Diaries/The Originals that have new ideas of a vampire. These novels/books all have differences, but some still have key characteristics of the original vampire.
In Case's article “Tasting the Original Apple,” it talks about the role that now the new woman has and how it comes into conflict with how men react towards it as stated “Dracula is often read as a largely reactionary response to the threat of autonomous female sexuality posed by the phenomenon of the "New Woman," with its anxieties about female sexuality being most clearly visible in Lucy Westenra's story. Particularly once she has been "vamped," Lucy's sexual assertiveness seems to link her with the New Woman. But Lucy's actions as a vampire, like those of the "awful women" (42) Jonathan encounters at Dracula's castle, perhaps owe less to the specific threat posed by the New Woman's insistence on sexual autonomy than to the ambivalences built into the model of Victorian womanhood from the start. Since ideal womanhood (and the ground of male desire) was characterized by a combination of total sexual purity and at least the potential for passionate devotion to a man, this model...
Dracula is a mythical creature designed to wreak havoc on the lives of mortals through the terror and intimidation of death by bite. Vampires are undead beings that kill humans for their blood to survive. Human blood is the vampire’s sustenance, and only way of staying alive. Throughout time, humans have come up with ways to repel vampires, such as lighting jack-o-lanterns on All Hallows Eve, placing garlic around the neck, a stake through the heart, sunlight, etc. Both beings have a survival instinct, whether it be hunger or safety, both are strong emotions. In the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker, the characters Lucy, John, and Van Helsing strive for survival, therefore killing Dracula.
Stoker has rendered the reader to see the Count as physically strong and powerful, through Jonathan Harker and his confinement and Lucy Westenra and her failing health. Although the reader does not understand all the omniscient powers and control that Count Dracula possesses over people, they are brought to light through Dr Steward’s accounts of his patient R.M. Renfield. The ‘strange and sudden change’ (Stoker, 86), that has happened in Renfield evokes the reader to contemplate the Count’s influence over people. Dr Steward suggests it is as though a ‘religious mania has seized’ Renfield (Stoker, 87), and is controlling him. The reader is aware that Renfield can feel the Counts presence and that there is a connection between them. This eventually leads Van Helsing to recognize the bond between Mina Harker and the Count, which helps them to find Dracula and finally kill him. Dracula’s invasion over Renfield also reveals a weakness in the Counts power. Renfield, an obedient servant of Dracula, claims he is ‘here to do Your bidding, Master. I am Your slave’ (Stoker, 88). Renfield’s devotion is quickly reversed when he sees that the Count is taking life from Mina. It is his care for her that causes him to turn against Dracula and try to fight for her. Again Renfield’s actions mimic that of the other men as it becomes their goal to save Mina from the invasion running through her body. The key to this invasion is the blood.
But why this attitude? I believe it is the aggressive sexuality that the vampire Lucy displays that ...
This begins with Jonathan Harker's journal, in which he records his adventures in the Carpathians. This is important, because his journal is an important clue in finally determining what exactly is happening. His fiancé, and later wife, Mina transcribes the journal, and then shows it to Dr. Van Helsing, a noted physician, attorney, philosopher, and metaphysicist. Through the journal, Van Helsing is able to determine what exactly happened to Lucy, who earlier in the novel was a victim of The Count. The phonographic journal of Dr. Seward was useful in observing Mr. Renfield, also a victim of Dracula, who the protagonists used in order to locate The Count's London abode.
and follows with, “...I could see a white face and red, gleaming eyes. ”(Stoker 98), the reader can immediately tell that Lucy was the “half-reclining white figure” and the one bent over her was Dracula. He has already turned her into a vampire, but it will take a while for her full transformation to occur. In the movie, the setting is the Australian Outback, and there is an ongoing competition for the best rock band in the region. The Yowie Yahoo is a vampire who is just a hologram, a set up by one of the malicious bands.
Dracula’s peculiar actions begin when Johnathan Harker takes a Journey to help Dracula with some business. When Harker was getting