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Dracula By Bram Stoker

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In Dracula, written by Bram Stoker, the plot development is very intense. There are a lot of factors which contribute to the development of a plot, and characters are a crucial part, victims to be specific. The victims serve as key figures in Dracula’s schemes and drive the development of the plot through their characteristics and connections to other characters, as seen with Lucy, Renfield, and Mina. These characters are victims of Count Dracula, and only one survives. The plot of the novel is full of twists and unfortunate events, each character's experience changes the course of the novel. The first victim is Lucy Westenra, a beautiful young woman who is killed and transformed into a vampire. All of these are caused by a single habit of hers: sleepwalking. Sleepwalking is …show more content…

Mrs. Westenra has got an idea that sleep-walkers always go out on the roofs of houses and along the edges of cliffs and then get suddenly woken and fall over...” (Stoker 77). In Mina’s journal, she expressed her concerns about her safety despite Lucy being in good health. The habit of sleepwalking and Mina’s concern foreshadows the danger she will encounter. One night, Lucy walks to a churchyard in her sleep. When she is found by Mina, there is a dark figure that bends over her. “There was undoubtedly something, long and black, bending over the half-reclining white figure. I called in fright, “Lucy! Lucy!” and something raised a head, and from where I was I could see a white face and red, gleaming eyes.” (98) The description of this figure by Mina is very similar to the description of Dracula in Jonathan's diary. This is solid evidence that Dracula has arrived in London, and he is preying on his victims. As days pass, Lucy becomes weak and sick. According to a letter from her doctor to Lucy’s boyfriend, Arthur, “Lucy is ill; that is, she has no special disease, but she looks awful and is getting worse every

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