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Title: Dracula Author: Bram Stoker Publisher: 1897 by Archibald Constable & Co. Story Jonathan Harker, young lawyer, makes trip to Transylvania to sell land in England to Count Dracula. Meanwhile, young fiance, Mina, spending summer by the sea in Whitby, port town in Eng. with friend Lucy Westenra. Lucy falls ill: blood seems to disappear. Jonathan somehow escapes, has brain fever, saved by the sisters of a convent and marries Mina there. Dr. Van Helsing, Dutch doctor comes to see what is the matter with Lucy. It seems that she is the victim of a vampire. The circle of LucyÕs freinds, who try to save her, are too late in discovering that Dracula had come across the sea on a merchant vessel, delivering crates of Transylvanian dirt. When she dies, she becomes Un-dead, preying on the blood of little children of Whitby. They drive a stake through her heart and free her of the spell. She is fully dead. The group of friends: Van Helsing, Jonathan and Mina Harker, and LucyÕs three previous suitors, Dr. Seward, owner of a mental hospital next door to DraculaÕs future estate, Arthur Holmwood, Lord Godalming, and Quincey Morris, a young American. They decide to do whatever they can to destroy the vampire. Dracula comes to get Mina and she will become like him if the group cannot defeat him. Learn that crates of earth are being sent around as places where Dracula can stop to rest or change form if he so desires. They travel to Translyvania to save their dear friend Mina and rid the world of Count Dracula and all of his followers.... Free Essays on Dracula Free Essays on Dracula Title: Dracula Author: Bram Stoker Publisher: 1897 by Archibald Constable & Co. Story Jonathan Harker, young lawyer, makes trip to Transylvania to sell land in England to Count Dracula. Meanwhile, young fiance, Mina, spending summer by the sea in Whitby, port town in Eng. with friend Lucy Westenra. Lucy falls ill: blood seems to disappear. Jonathan somehow escapes, has brain fever, saved by the sisters of a convent and marries Mina there. Dr. Van Helsing, Dutch doctor comes to see what is the matter with Lucy. It seems that she is the victim of a vampire. The circle of LucyÕs freinds, who try to save her, are too late in discovering that Dracula had come across the sea on a merchant vessel, delivering crates of Transylvanian dirt. When she dies, she becomes Un-dead, preying on the blood of little children of Whitby. They drive a stake through her heart and free her of the spell. She is fully dead. The group of friends: Van Helsing, Jonathan and Mina Harker, and LucyÕs three previous suitors, Dr. Seward, owner of a mental hospital next door to DraculaÕs future estate, Arthur Holmwood, Lord Godalming, and Quincey Morris, a young American. They decide to do whatever they can to destroy the vampire. Dracula comes to get Mina and she will become like him if the group cannot defeat him. Learn that crates of earth are being sent around as places where Dracula can stop to rest or change form if he so desires. They travel to Translyvania to save their dear friend Mina and rid the world of Count Dracula and all of his followers.... Free Essays on Dracula Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good. – Romans. XII. 21 Evil often triumphs, but never conquers. – Joseph Roux The two quotations from above explain that evil never conquers because good always overcomes it. A good example of this is the book Dracula by Bram Stoker because the author expresses the nature of good vs. evil. Dracula wants to come to London because he wants to turn everyone into vampires. The basic background of the book Dracula is when Jonathan Harker, a realtor who is sent to Transylvania to complete a transaction with Dracula so he can come to England. What Harker does not know is that Dracula has a plan for world domination. Well, while Harker is on a train to Transylvania he enters â€Å"the east, a section of Europe whose peoples and customs will be for the most part, strange and unfamiliar† (Dracula, 20). Harker arrives at Bistritz on the eve of St. George’s Day, â€Å"a night when evil things in the world have full swa y† (Dracula, 21). When Harker first sees this, he is unconcerned about these superstitions. Then he sees something that is very peculiar. An old woman is very afraid of the word â€Å"Dracula.† She offers Harker a gift of rosary to protect him of evil spirits. After she gives him the rosary, he starts to feel uncomfortable going to the Borgo pass on the following day. The Borgo pass is very important because this is the place where Dracula’s carriage will await Harker. Well on the next day, a crowd of peasants gather around the carriage mumbling linguist words that seem to have some kind of link to the word vampire. Then the â€Å"whole crowd makes the sign of the cross and point two fingers at Harker† (Dracula, 30), to wish him a safe journey. When the carriage dashes by the country peasants, they knell and cross themselves. Until this point Jonathan Harker does not know the â€Å"Dracula beckons Harker into his castle and into a horrifying adventure wit h the supernatural† (Lidston ... Free Essays on Dracula Title: Dracula Author: Bram Stoker Publisher: 1897 by Archibald Constable & Co. Story Jonathan Harker,a young lawyer makes a trip to Transylvania to sell land in England to Count Dracula. Meanwhile, young fiance, Mina, spending the summer by the sea in Whitby, port town in England with her friend Lucy Westenra. Lucy falls ill: blood seems to disappear. Jonathan somehow escapes, has brain fever, saved by the sisters of a convent and marries Mina there. Dr. Van Helsing, Dutch doctor comes to see what is the matter with Lucy. It seems that she is the victim of a vampire. The circle of LucyÕs freinds, who try to save her, are too late in discovering that Dracula had come across the sea on a merchant vessel,delivering crates of Transylvanian dirt. When she dies, she becomes Un-dead, preying on the blood of little children of Whitby. They drive a stake through her heart and free her of the spell. She is fully dead. The group of friends: Van Helsing,Jonathan and Mina Harker, and LucyÕs three previous suitors, Dr. Seward, owner of a mental hospital next door to DraculaÕs future estate, Arthur Holmwood, Lord Godalming, and Quincey Morris, a young American. They decide to do whatever they can to destroy the vampire. Dracula comes to get Mina and she will become like him if the group cannot defeat him. Learn that crates of earth are being sent around as places where Dracula can stop to rest or change form if he so desires. They travel to Translyvania to save their dear friend Mina and rid the world of Count Dracula and all of his followers. Book vs. Movie -Excellent Book. Movie (1993) good adaptation, relatively similar, but a few faults: -portrayal of Women. Book has strong women (contrast to Wuthering Heights) but movie weakens them. Book: Mina makes anthology of info. Movie: Mina cheats on Jonathan with "prince," Lucy is brought forward as a loose girl, but book has her shy. -I liked movieÕs Holmwood: ...