Jonathan Harker

Bram Stoker’s “Dracula,” a novel about a vampire who disrupts the lives of Jonathan Harker and his friends, seems to turn the sequence of events into an expression of the fears and anxieties that are prevalent in Victorian society. Lucy Westenra could be seen as the Ideal Victorian woman through her purity and beauty. However, such moments as “why can’t they let a girl marry three men, or as many as want her,” disrupts that idea (64). The novel registers concern about women’s gender and sexuality

Stoker produced two eccentric characters of opposite conflicts that were rather identical in their means of doing. Professor Van Helsing and Count Dracula were the main identities in Stoker’s Dracula because they both represented areas of strict morals such as good and evil, respectively. Although the two men present rather general characteristics of their due morals, Stoker also gave subtle commonalities to them. Although Dracula happens to be the evil of the story, it can also be presumed that

Count Dracula welcomes Harker at the huge doors of the castle. Dracula is “a tall geezer, with a clean long white mustache, and dressed in black from head to toe, without any color, just black and has "peculiarly sharp white teeth" and odd pointed ears. Dracula pardons himself from sharing the supper, asserting he has ate already and does not "sup". In spite of the fact that he has been gotten generous, Harker's first night in the castle fills him with premonition. The following day, he doesn't see

Jake Klimeck Novels and Tales Dracula Modernity and Folklore Dracula, is not just a story of good versus evil, but a story of complex parallels. Count Dracula is not just a living being, but also dead. Dracula is a man, but he is also an animal. Furthermore, Dracula is both beautiful and repulsive. It is these parallels about Dracula that create a sense of anxiety and uncertainty throughout the reading. Stoker 's use of parallels throughout the novel creates discontent throughout

last name has the word “west” which means that her name could be seen as “The Light of the West”. Even in the cover art of the book we see that Dracula is all black as if it was his shadow. In the reading within the first and second chapters as John Harker goes to Castle Dracula Bram uses dark colors to describe the ride to Dracula’s castle in Transylvania ,such as “5 May-The Castle- The grey of the morning has passed”(9), “Then through the darkness I could see a sort of patch of grey light ahead of

Bram Stoker 's Dracula is highly acclaimed and has received many different interpretations which deal with complex symbolisms and metaphors. These interpretations often require a great deal of knowledge in psychology, political science, anthropology, and other non-literary disciplines. These interpretations may be valid, as they are related to the disciplines on which their arguments are based, but the true power of the novel is due to a very simple theme that lies beneath the other, more convoluted

the blood. In 1879, Mina is Jonathan’s bride. Jonathan meets Vlad. Vlad thinks that Mina is the reincarnation of his wife. He goes to England with the box on the boat and leaves Jonathan with female monster. When he arrive in England, he rapes and bites Lucy. Lucy is Mina’s friend and now, she becomes a vampire. Van Helsing and his group kill Lucy at the night. Vlad meets with Mina and spends lots of time with her. Mina seem to remember her past. Jonathan

soon realize that she is not dead but in fact a vampire. They break into her tomb, stab her in the heart, cut off her head and make sure she stays dead so she can't harm anyone else. In the last few chapters on the book, Mina finally hears from Jonathan and goes to get him. They decided to get married at the hospital he was recovering at and headed back to England. The men decided to kill Count for good. While They are out hunting for him, Mina has to stay back at the hospital free from danger.

their traits. One good example of this was when Lucy was talking about her three proposals in one day. From this we can conclude that Lucy is a very sweet, kind, and beautiful girl. Another great example of this is when Mina says, “I must stop, for Jonathan is waking. I must attend my husband!” This quote shows that Mina is a very caring woman and i much like a mother. Stoker also uses the epistolary format and

the first four chapters of Dracula, Jonathan Harker witnesses supernatural occurrence’s such as seeing flickering blue lights, how Jonathan Harker’s coachman magically made the were-wolves disappear, and how he cannot see the Count Dracula’s reflection in the mirror. In the novel Dracula, Jonathan Harker tries to overlook these supernatural occurrences because of Mr. Hawkins interest. However, this reason may not be the most realistic justification in why Jonathan is persistent in his stay, but rather