Dracula By Bram Stoker English Literature Essay

genus genus Dracula By Bram Stoker English Literature EssayVery famous for introducing Count Dracula and the wise tell the story of Count Dracula a vampire that have been seeking his dead love for hundred years but he at last found it In a teenaged woman named mynah Murray that live in London that persuades him to seek her but at the same time a group of men and the famous forefront Helsing want to kill count Dracula they unleashes a battle between Dracula and Van helsingDracula has been appoint to many literary genres including vampire literature, horror fiction, the gothic novel and invasion literature.Characters DetailsPrimary Characters-Count DraculaA centuries-old vampire and Transylvanian nobleman, Count Dracula inhabits a crumbling castle in the Carpathian Mountains. He cannister assume the form of an animal, control the weather, and he is stronger than twenty men. His powers are limited, however for instance, he cannot enter a victims home unless invited, cannot cross water unless carried, and is r abateered powerless by daylight.Abraham Van HelsingA Dutch professor, his pupil is Dr. Seward. C bothed upon to cure the ailing Lucy Westenra, Van Helsings contributions are essential in the fight against Dracula. Unlike his comrades, Van Helsing is not blinded by the limitations of Western medicine he knows that he faces a force that cannot be treated with handed-down science and reason. Knowledgeable about vampire folklore, Van Helsing becomes Draculas chief antagonist and the leader of the group that hunts Dracula down and destroys him.Jonathan HarkerA lawyer, whose firm sends him to Transylvania to conclude a real estate transaction with Dracula. Harker quickly finds himself a pris unitaryr in the castle and barely escapes with his life. He demonstrates a fierce curiosity to discover the professedly nature of his captor and a strong will to escape. He help Van Helsing defeating Dracula mina MurrayJonathan Harkers fiance. Mina is a practical youn g beauteous woman who works as a schoolmistress. Eventually victimized by Dracula herself and the best friend of the Lucy Westenra who is the first victim of DraculaLucy WestenraBeautiful young woman, every man who meets her wants to marry her or save her life, or both. Lucy chooses Arthur to be his wife, but is Draculas first victim and she became in a vampire that eats the bloodline of the children but later she is killed by Van Helsing group in her tomb.John SewardA talented young doctor he is Van Helsings pupil. Seward is the administrator of an demented asylum not far from Draculas English home and the first to see Lucy Westenra after she was injured by Dracula. Sewer notes are better than the other because I took the story through the eyes of SewardArthur HolmwoodThe one that Lucy choose to marry with, he is a sensitive man an is in the moment when they have to kill Lucy in her tomb he also lose his family in a short period he also finances the vampire hunt and lets everyon e use his human activity to gain access to information about Dracula.Quincey P. MorrisQuincey is from Texas. He is an old friend of Arthur Holmwoods and John Sewards. He also wants to be helpful whenever he can. It is his seeming privation of importance that shows his personality Quincey ultimately sacrifices his life in order to rid the world of Draculas influence.Second Characters-Renfield An inmate in Dr. Sewards insane asylum. He is seduced by Dracula, who he hails as his Master. When he is at his best, he is polite and intelligent and he tries to do the right thing. When he is at his worst, he eats insects for their souls and is completely penetrable to Draculas will. It is he who allows the Count into Sewards home he is many kind of servant to DraculaPeter Hawkins Jonathans boss and mentor. He is very generous and has great trust in Jonathan, both as a solicitor and as a person.PlotThis story begins with the journal of a man named Jonathan Harker who has travelled to Tran sylvania to give some documents about the new property in London to count Dracula, when Jonathan arrives to the castle and meet count Dracula he describes Dracula like a mad thin old man and finds strange the castle of count Dracula and have bad feelings about it, hence he start to feel unknown presence and hearing noises , when he tried to escape from the castle Count Dracula trap him on the castle with other three women vampires, Dracula hustling a ship to go to London . Jonathan has a fiance, her name is Mina Murray who is waiting for the return of Jonathan, meanwhile she went to the wedding of her friend Lucy Westenra and Arthur Holmwood ,next in the night Mina see that Lucy was in the courtyard and she was attacked by a dark form of monster but when she went to help Lucy she only find her injured and nothing more, then her husband Arthur called the doctor John Seward who Is the one that give the treatment to Lucy that consist of giving her a lot of blood transfusions but is seems to have any skinny results so Seward decides to call his mentor Van Helsing who come from Amsterdam, when he arrives he checked Lucy and he tell them that Lucy cannot be saved them she die.Jonathan has escaped an returned to London thought process about nothing happened in that castle was real when suddenly his boss Peter Hawkins died and leave a great fortune to Jonathan , then he marries Mina. integrity day Jonathan see Dracula but he cant remember because Dracula has recovered his youth because the blood of his victims then Jonathan went unconscious(p) and that allow mina to read his journal and know what happenen in the castle. Soon there is a rumor of a monster in London that sucks blood from people ,that take Van Helsing to gather Mina, Jonathan, Arthur, Quincey, Seward and to seek Lucys tomb and watch how Lucy wake up in vampire form and they killed her by cutting off her head , Van helsing prepare Mina, Jonathan, Arthur, Quincey and Seward to kill Dracula, but in the search Van helsing realized that Mina was on danger so Helsing and sewer went into Minas room and found Jonathan unconscious and mina in the arms of Dracula drinking blood from him, next Dracula disappear. When they think that all is lost Van Helsing tell them that if they kill Dracula after the next day Mina would return back to normal then they use Mina to led them to Draculas place and when they arrive to Transylvania they found the cut that have the body of the count but it was protected by some gypsies but they won the battle an kill count Dracula and that make Mina back to normal but Sewer got bad injured and sadly he die, but at least Mina and Jonathan live happily thats the end of the novelPersonal Evaluation and conclusion-Book strengthsin this book is written like in journals and letters , and give the point of view of almost all the characters that helps to get in their thoughts and to near feel as they feel in the novel, I liked that so much because this novel dont have only one narrationBook WeaknessIt can be very heavy for some people because it is divided in journals and different points of view so it can be hard for some people to relate and to follow the story but it has its benefitsSourcesDracula by Bram stoker book in PdfWikipedia- http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracula wickedness novels review- http//usersites.horrorfind.com/home/horror/dracula/bookreviews/bramstokersdracula.htmlDracula Characters- http//www.bookrags.com/notes/dra/CHR.html