In the Irish author, Abraham “Bram” Stoker’s 1897 gothic novel, Dracula, Stoker introduces a modern interpretation of vampires. The novel begins with a young solicitor named, Jonathan Harper as he travels to Transylvania to sell an estate in England to the nobleman Count Dracula. The estate is next to a Doctor Seward’s lunatic asylum. Throughout his stay at Dracula’s castle, Harper keeps a journal taking details as he recalls each day. A copious amount of strange and seemingly fictitious occurrences such as, seeing the Count scale the castle walls as a lizard would, hallucinatory encounters of three beautiful woman trying to seduce him, and discovering fifty boxes of soil in a rotting chapel beneath the castle are noted in this journal. In addition to the chaos, Harper’s fiancé, Mina, is sending letters back and forth to her friend Lucy. Mina eventually travels to Whitby to visit Lucy, who is portrayed in the novel as a very attractive character. Lucy is proposed to by three men, Quincy Morris, Holmwood, and Seward all within the same day. Also, during Mina’s stay, an eerie ship is wrecked with nothing aboard aside from a dead captain, a …show more content…
Straightaway, Dr. Seward, one of Lucy’s proposals, attempts to diagnose Lucy’s condition but fails. He then calls Doctor Van Helsing, who diagnoses Lucy with vampirism. Every night Lucy loses blood until she is near death, Lucy receives four blood transfusions, one from each of her previous suitors and also from Van Helsing. Despite all of the efforts, the men are not able to save her, she dies, but soon becomes part of the “un-dead”. In her tomb, Lucy’s body is restored with life as she has become a vampire, she kidnaps and sucks the blood of local children every night. Until, the men cover her grave, decapitate her, and drive a stake into her