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Summary Of Bram Stoker's Dracula

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Dracula In the novel “Dracula” written by Bram Stoker, it begins as a young English lawyer by the name of Jonathan Harker, travels to the Eastern European country of Transylvania to finish a real estate transaction with Count Dracula, a nobleman. As he is traveling, the locals warn him about Castle Dracula, and give him crucifixes and other evil-fighting charms. He also notices the foreign whispers that later translates as “vampire”. Although afraid, Harker followed through to visiting the castle; but the trip was harrow. When he arrives, he realizes that Dracula is a well educated and kind man. After spending a few nights at the castle, Harker begins to realize that he is actually a prisoner in it. The more he discovers of his imprisonment, …show more content…

One night, Harker is attacked by 3 vampires but Dracula scurries them off telling them that Harker is his. After this event, Harker escapes by climbing the castle walls. Meanwhile, Harker’s Fiancée goes to a shipwreck with a woman named Lucy and find a dead crew with the only surviving thing a dog, which runs off into the forest anyway. Later, Lucy begins to sleepwalk and does so to the cemetery; Mina (Harker’s Fiancée) sees a figure with red eyes leaning over Lucy. Harker then reappears in the city of Budapest with a brain fever; Mina meets up with him as well as Van Helsing, a professor, and tells them that Lucy was bitten by a vampire. He then tells Lucy to place garlic in her room; this traditional charm works for some time but her mother, unaware of its ability, removes the garlic from the room. Several days later, Van Helsing and Seward end up giving Lucy 4 blood transfusions in attempt to revive her; none of it worked. A night later, the men let their guard down for a short moment and a wolf breaks into their home attacking and killing Lucy. Van Helsing convinces the other men that Lucy is now a vampire; they don’t comply until they see her feeding on a child. They kill her by putting a stake through her heart then cut her head off before stuffing her mouth

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