A Summary of Bram Stokers Dracula Essay -- English Literature

A Summary of Bram Stokers DraculaDracula is an epistolary sweet, meaning that is composed from letters,journal and diary entries, telegrams, and newspaper clippings.Jonathan Harker, Mina Murray (later Mina Harker), and Dr. Seward writethe largest contributions to the novel although the writings of LucyWestenra and Abraham Van Helsing constitute some key parts of thebook. The novel has a slightly journalistic feel, as it is a harrowingaccount purportedly written by the people who witnessed the booksevents.A young Englishman named Jonathan Harker travels through Transylvaniaon a business trip. He is there to aid Count Dracula, a Transylvaniannobleman, in buying an English estate. His journey into the remoteEastern European landscape is fearsome, although initially he ischarmed 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. Possessi ng the supernatural ability to scale upright piano wallsand live without a reflection. Dracula leaves him to die at the handsof three female vampires, but Jonathan attempts a desperate escape.Meanwhile, in England, Jonathans fiance Mina visits her outflank friend,Lucy Westenra. Lucy has recently been proposed to by three men ArthurHolmwood, Dr. Seward, and Quincey Morris. She chooses Arthur to be herhappy fianc. Mina and Lucy vacation together at Whitby, a quaintseaside town celebrated for its ghostly history. While they are there, aRussian vessel is shipwrecked. A large dog leaps from the wreck andruns away. All of its crew are missing apart(predicate) from one dead captain.The ship was carrying fifty boxes of e... ...las chest. Now, after enough time has passed she willbecome one of the undead unless they can destroy Dracula first.They set to work, sterilizing (with sanctified wafer) all but one of theboxes in one day. Dracula, in the last box, flees back to Transylvaniato r est and regroup for another 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, cleanup the three female 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 struggle against thegypsies, Quincey receives a mortal wound. Jonathan and Quincey deliverthe killing blows to Dracula just as the sun is setting.