Jonathan Harker

when Jonathan Harker, a realtor who is sent to Transylvania to complete a transaction with Dracula so he can come to England. What Harker does not know is that Dracula has a plan for world domination. Well, while Harker is on a train to Transylvania he enters “the east, a section of Europe whose peoples and customs will be for the most part, strange and unfamiliar” (Dracula, 20). Harker arrives at Bistritz on the eve of St. George’s Day,

During chapter 14 of the novel Dracula we see one of our protagonists, Jonathan Harker, travel to London with his wife, Mina Harker, where they plan to group up with the group of people working to put an end to Count Dracula, including Dr.Van Helsing and Dr.Seward. As Mr.Harker recovers from his nervous breakdown from the previous chapter -which was brought about when he caught sight of a man who resembled Dracula- Dr.Van Helsing reassures Mr.Harker. After reading through Mr.Harker’s journal Dr.Van

the main characteristics beside the various other features that makes this story great. Dracula is a story by Mr. Bram Stoker during the Victorian era where Count Dracula is the antagonist and Van Helsing with the help of other people such as Jonathan Harker, Mina with several others play the protagonist trying to put an end wwwto the Count and the miserable sufferings he has given to his victims. Surely there are many other novels

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 on a business trip. He

about a lawyer named Jonathan Harker, who travels to the Mountains of Transylvania to arrange a real estate deal with Count Dracula, who lives in a medieval castle. When the Count sees a picture of Harker's fiancée Mina, he tells Jonathan Harker to write to her, saying that he will stay on for a couple of weeks longer. While Jonathan is locked up in the castle, the Count travels to London to meet Mina, who he believes is the reincarnation of his wife. He then imprisons Jonathan in his castle, where

The book I chose to read for the book review is Dracula by Irish author Bram Stoker. It is a Gothic horror novel and was published May 26, 1897. 1897 was the height of the British Empire expansion. Great Britain had expanded to much of the land of Africa, Asia, and North America, which they used to fuel its tremendous military and economic power. But this high point was also the start of the declined to the British power. America’s and Germany’s rise in powers threated to remove Great Britain as

(Stoker, 1993:55). Although the female vampires initially resist Dracula’s power, they eventually succumb to his authority and leave Jonathan Harker alone. The construction of the female vampires also opposes the construction that we have of women of the time when the novel was written. W are sown through the descriptions of Mina Harker and Lucy Westenra and also from Jonathan Harker’s thoughts on the female vampires and other women he encounters, that the women of the time when this novel was written

Comparison and Contrast of Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Polidori’s The Vampyre While Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Polidori’s The Vampyre share some minor details, mostly regarding the basics of vampires and the location and date in which the stories take place, the majority of the stories differ greatly. The Vampyre was published almost a hundred years earlier, so it is easy to see how some details of that story can be seen in Dracula. Bram Stoker no doubt must have used The Vampyre as an influence

Dracula written by Bram Stoker is about a Jonathan one of the main characters in the book. Jonathan Harker is a young English lawyer, who has traveled to see a castle. Little did he know, that trip to the castle was going to open many secrets. This story is written from a narrative point of view. The book contains dairy entries which are written by the characters in the book. Other important characters are Mina Murray who is introduced as the fiancé o Johnathan Harker eventually they get married. Lucy Westenra

Eun-Ah Lee Professor L. Tromly ENGL 1200 A01 5 April 2013 The Effect of Supernatural Aspects on the Victorian Society Bram Stoker 's Dracula, presents an interesting perspective on death and illness in the Victorian period. This can be viewed as a creativity on Stoker 's part, or as a form of religious or social commentary on his changing era. There are several flaws presented throughout the novel as the plot unfolds, which are: characters in the novel dismiss the old traditional belief of