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Analyzing Van Helsing 'Chapter 1 Of Bram Stoker'

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In dracula things don't get interesting until the end of Chapter 2. the chapter starts to show a dark and unpleasant horrible feeling that Stoker makes in the novel. Harker’s journal shows you how things change when hes at draculas castle. harker starts to feel like he isn't the house guest he thought he was and feels like he can never leave. stoker didn't make the story of dracula but he made the novel as if he did showing that he could make a gothic story and widening his range of writing.

Throughout the novel you see van helsing questioning the young doctor because if he doesn't understand something, the doctor tends to get rid of all ides on that rather than to think he just doesn't know about it. Van Helsing works as a mentor to the doctor to open his mind to things he doesn't quite understand. bram Stoker basically shows you that being modern can sometimes blind you from what reality really is, that it slows you down, thats why dracula preys on the people and gets away with it for so long. van helsing is not affected by this though. van helsing tries to understand both modern and old knowledge. …show more content…

well simple because dracula has an enchanting way with the ladies... he controls them and through the women he controls others. lucy is a great example because she tried to get her fiance to be one of the damned like her. just Like the “weird sisters” lucy speaks with great words to her fiance so that she can basically eat him. the vampire offspring almost have an enchantment on them to get people to do what they want them to do. and well the women have some kind of sexual spell that makes men want

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