In the book Dracula by Bram Stoker, Stoker uses a lot of descriptive words to give an atmosphere that is mysterious and scary. Stoker starts to create a familiar atmosphere in the beginning of the book that way its atmosphere is continuous throughout the book. The atmosphere that an author gives to a book sets the mood for the entire book. In this particular book, Stoker creates his atmosphere by people’s reactions to the deeds of the count and the things that Jonathan notices. In the beginning, when Jonathan Harker first comes into Transylvania he goes and stays at the Golden Krone Hotel. At the Golden Krone Hotel, the landlord gets a letter telling them how to direct Johnathan. After the landlord and his wife read the letter …show more content…
Jonathan says, “The baying of the wolves sounded nearer and nearer, as though they were closing round on us from every side. I grew dreadfully afraid, and the horses shared my fear.” (Stoker 13). This quote from the book shows that Jonathan is scared of his surroundings and that the area that he is in is a lot different from what he knows when he is at home.
The final way that Jonathan seems to be scared of what is going on is when he has stayed at the castle for a couple of days. On one of the couple of days that Jonathan is at the castle, he goes to bed he writes how he is feeling, he says, “..for there is something so strange about this place and all in it that I cannot but feel uneasy. I wish I were safe out of it, or that I had never come.” (Stoker 26). Later in the same night of writing, Jonathan says, “I have only the Count to speak with, and he!- I fear I am myself the only living soul within the place.” (Stoker 26). Throughout Jonathan's journal for the night, he expresses how he is scared of the Count in the caste.
In the book Dracula Bram Stoker creates the atmosphere for the entire book early on in the book. The major way that Stoker creates an atmosphere is by his descriptive words; he does this through the narrator Jonathan. The atmosphere that Stoker portrays through the whole book is an atmosphere that is kind of mysterious but mainly