A Summary of Bram Stokers Dracula Essay -- English Literature

A Summary of Bram Stokers DraculaDracula is an informal novel, meaning that is composed from letters,journal and diary entries, telegrams, and newspaper clippings.Jonathan Harker, mynah Murray (later mynah Harker), and Dr. Seward writethe largest contributions to the novel although the writings of LucyWestenra and Abraham Van Helsing constitute some secern parts of thebook. The novel has a slightly journalistic feel, as it is a harrowingaccount supposedly written by the people who witnessed the booksevents.A young Englishman named Jonathan Harker travels through Transylvaniaon a business trip. He is in that location to aid Count Dracula, a Transylvaniannobleman, in buying an English estate. His tour into the remoteEastern European landscape is fearsome, although initially he is fascinate by the Counts generosity and intelligence. Gradually, hecomes to realize that he is a prisoner in Draculas castle, and thatthe Count is a demonic being who plans to prey on the teeming massesof London. Possessing the supernatural ability to scale vertical wallsand experience without a reflection. Dracula leaves him to die at the handsof three young-bearing(prenominal) vampires, but Jonathan attempts a desperate escape.Meanwhile, in England, Jonathans fiance Mina visits her high hat friend,Lucy Westenra. Lucy has recently been proposed to by three workforce ArthurHolmwood, Dr. Seward, and Quincey Morris. She chooses Arthur to be herhappy fianc. Mina and Lucy vacation together at Whitby, a quaintseaside townspeople renowned for its ghostly history. While they be there, aRussian vessel is shipwrecked. A large dog leaps from the wreck andruns away. All of its crew are missing apart from one dead captain.The ship was carrying fifty boxes of e... ...las chest. Now, later on enough time has passed she go forthbecome one of the undead unless they can disgrace Dracula first.They set to work, sterilizing (with holy wafer) all but one of theboxes in one day. Dracula, in th e last box, flees back to Transylvaniato rest and reorganise for some other attack. The band of friends tracks himdown, splitting up so that Van Helsing and Mina will go to purge thecastle while the four young men track the last box. Van Helsing andMina succeed, killing the three distaff vampires and using holy waferto render the castle uninhabitable for the undead. They then regroupwith the others, and all together they surround the gypsies who aretransporting Dracula in his coffin. During the press against thegypsies, Quincey receives a mortal wound. Jonathan and Quincey deliverthe killing blows to Dracula just as the sun is setting.