Dracula

DRACULA

By Bram Stoker

BRAM STOKER

•Was born in Contlarf (near Dublin,

Ireland) on November 8 of 1847.

•He met the actor Henry Irving in

1876, two years later became the

acting manager at the Lyceum Theater.

•His first novel The Snake’s Pass was

published in 1890.

•Stoker died on April 20, 1912 in London.

•Dracula was published on 1890:

• He started the novel on 1890, year it was rumored he entered the order of the Golden Dawn.• Epistolary novel that appears written in the form of realistic diaries.

DRACULA

Jonathan Harker

Arthur Holmwood

Mina Murray

Lucy Westenra

Renfield

Dr. John Seward

Dr. Van Helsing

Quincey Morris

suitors

Engaged

Engaged

Master/servant

Mentor

Doctor/patientVictims

Employer

Jonathan Harker, travels to

Count Dracula’s castle, and

finds himself prisoner of the

Count.

Jonathan falls under the spell of three beautiful and seductive women.

PLOT

Lucy receives three marriage proposals Quincey Morris, Arthur Holmwood and John Seward.

Mina finds Lucy in the town cemetery and believes she has seen a dark figure with red eyes over Lucy.

All Van Helsing’s efforts to maintain Lucy healthy fail

A wolf breaks into the Westerna house and some days later Lucy dies

Lucy is now part of the “Un-Dead” so her fiancée plunges a stake through her heart and then they cut off her head.

Undead:Such creatures are immortal and immensely strong. However, they also have certain weaknesses, they cannot survive without blood and they must look for shelter in the earth or in a coffin.

In order to kill Dracula, they must first track down his fifty boxes of earth

Dying, Renfield admits that Dracula often visited him, promising him flies, spiders, in return for Renfield’s obedience.

That night Dracula arrives at the asylum and he drinks Mina’s blood.

Then, slicing his own chest, he pressed her lips to the cut and forced her to drink his blood.

Dracula had fled England. The band travels to Transylvania. Van Helsing and Mina are now very near the castle.

Van Helsing seals the castle doors with wafers to deny forever the count’s entry.

Jonathan sees Dracula he cuts his throat and Quincey Morris plunges his knife into the count’s heart.

S E V E N Y E A R S PA SS, J O N AT H A N A N D M I N A H AV E A S O N N A M E D Q U I N C E Y.

THE MYTHVlad Draculea (son of the dragon) was prince of Wallachia (Romania) during 1456 to 1462.

He was best known for the cruel punishment he imposed during his reign in fact impalement became his favorite method of torture and execution.

READER’S RESPONSE

•Nowadays, people are still seduced by fear, and have curiosity for the

supernatural, evil and frightening; Dracula catches our attention because

Vampirism has always been connected with the manifestation of sexual

wishes, and tension between fear and desire.

•Dracula deals with one of the great human conflicts:

GOOD VS. EVIL

•Dracula became a classic of gothic horror because it primarily is a projection not only of the Victorian Age’s fear but also of everyone’s fears and desires.

EXCERPT“In a hard and warlike time he was celebrate that he have more iron nerve,

more subtle brain, more braver heart, than any man. In him some vital

principle have in strange way found their utmost. And as his body keep strong

and grow and thrive, so his brain grow too. All this without that diabolic aid

which is surely to him. For it have to yield to the powers that come from, and

are, symbolic of good. And now this is what he is to us. He have infect you, oh

forgive me, my dear, that I must say such, but it is for good of you that I

speak. He infect you in such wise, that even if he do no more, you have only to

live, to live in your own old, sweet way, and so in time, death, which is of

man's common lot and with God's sanction, shall make you like to him. This

must not be! We have sworn together that it must not. Thus are we ministers

of God's own wish. That the world, and men for whom His Son die, will not be

given over to monsters, whose very existence would defame Him. He have

allowed us to redeem one soul already, and we go out as the old knights of the

Cross to redeem more. Like them we shall travel towards the sunrise. And

like them, if we fall, we fall in good cause.”

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