Jonathan Harker

Dracula is a novel written by Bram Stoker during the late 1800’s. The book starts out with Jonathan Harker, who is a smart young business man, who wants to travel to Count Dracula for a business ordeal. Many locals from the European area warned Jonathan about Count Dracula, and would offer him crosses and other trinkets to help fend against him. Mina, who is at the time Jonathans soon to be wife, visits to catch up with an old friend named Lucy Westenra. Lucy gives Mina an update on her love life

Here, Harker has fallen victim to the vampire’s lustful attraction. This also demonstrates an undertone of eroticism within the story since the three vampires “get much closer to Jonathan Harker than proper Victorian ladies should” (Pikula 291). Harker also seems to develop signs of paranoia. An early sign of this paranoia is when Harker accepts the rosary from the old lady at the inn before he continued on with his journey

John Harker travels to Transylvania to finish a real estate deal with Count Dracula. As Harker nears the castle, the locals warn him about Dracula, calling him a “vampire” in different languages. Ignoring the warnings, Harker continues to the castle to find Dracula to be a nice man, but after a few days Harker realizes he is a prisoner and cannot leave the castle. He then realizes Dracula has is a vampire with supernatural powers, even finding that there are three female vampires working with him

Bridging East and West: When we first meet Dracula, he motions Harker into his castle, speaking “excellent English, but with a strange intonation” (Stoker 22). Dracula desires to become a part of English culture and society so thoroughly that he will be able to blend into society, a feat that Harker helps him accomplish. Dracula desires this because he wants to live in and infect Britain. This terrifying image strikes at the heart of an anxiety of Victorian Britain. Up until the late middle of

2. Van Helsing 3. Jonathan Harker 4. Mina Murray 5. Lucy Westenra Other Characters: 6. Arthur Holmwood 7. Mrs. Westenra (Lucy's mother) 8. Quincey Morris 9. Renfield chapter 1: Setting: Important plot parts: Harker travels to Transylvania by train and writes in his diary

Transylvania, preys on Mina Harker, a devoted Christian and intelligent woman, and Lucy Westenra, an innocent, young woman pursued by three suitors, by luring them and sucking their blood; the women and their suitors form a gang of vampire fighters who track and eventually kill Dracula defeating his devilry with the forces of

Stoker’s monster, he seems to embellish on the younger Dracula (12:44-13:00). In the novel Dracula becomes younger by gorging himself with blood, but Jonathan Harker describes him “like a filthy leech, exhausted with his repletion” (83). Coppola makes the monster more of a human, and the audience can feel for his and Mina’s love affair. Also, Jonathan seems distant from Mina, and this makes the love is even more

Mina Murray is the fiancée of Jonathan Harker. She is portrayed as a good character in the book because she is shown as a really kind hearted and vivacious school mistress that always seems and is innocent and helps in anyway that she is able too. Mina is Lucy Westerna’s best friend and

Dracula expressed the nature of good and evil. An English realtor, Jonathan Harker, journeyed to Transylvania in order to complete a sale for a residence in London to a Transylvanian vampire, Count Dracula. What Harker did not know was that Dracula wanted to move to England so he can expand his power, creating a new monarchy of vampires. The Christian religion depicted many instances throughout Dracula. Early in the novel, Harker was preparing his journey to Dracula’s castle until an innkeeper’s

Bram Stoker presents Lucy Westenra and Mina Murray Harker as the perfect victorian women. Full of innocence, chaste, and elegance. Prior to the arrival of Dracula, the audience sees Lucy as a as a voluptuous, beautiful woman. Lucy has three men asking for her hand in marriage. Writing to Mina, Lucy complains, "Why can't they let a girl marry three men, or as many as want her, and save all this trouble?" (81). This shows she knows she cannot say those words because it is frowned upon in Victorian