DRACULA BY BRAM STOKER

SIMILARITIES

• Both deal with death and resurrection.
• Both include a monster that that murders.
• Both were written in the 1800's.
• They are both classic examples of gothic literature.
• Both monsters gain the sympathy of the readers.

SETTING

• Transylvania
• Whitby
• London
• 1897

DRACULA

• He is the vampire who has been "Un-Dead" for several hundred years
• and keeps his vitality by sucking blood from live victims.

JONATHAN HARKER

• The young London solicitor who is sent to Transylvania to
• finalize the transfer of real estate in England to Count dracula.

MISS MINA MURRAY

• The fiancée of Jonathan Harker; she will become a "persecuted maiden" during the latter part of the story.
• She is quite young, and her job is that of an assistant schoolmistress. She is also an orphan

LUCY WESTRENA

• Mina Murray's closest friend.
• young woman of nineteen who becomes engaged to Arthur Holmwood.
• Becomes one of dracula's first victims.

MRS. WESTRENA

• Lucy's mother
• Becomes another one of dracula's victims.

ARTHUR HOLMWOOD

• The fiancé of Lucy.
• He will later stab Lucy in the chest with a stake.

DR. JOHN SEWARD

• THE HEAD OF A LUNATIC ASYLUM, SEWARD IS ROUGHLY THE SAME AGE AS HOLMWOOD
• AND IS ONE OF LUCY WESTENRA'S SUITORS.

QUINCEY P. MORRIS

Dr. Abraham Van Helsing

R. M. RENFIELD

• A huge, lumbering, fifty-nine-year-old madman who is a patient of Dr. Seward;
• he also comes under the influence of Dracula

MR. SWALES

• old man who befriends Lucy and Mina at Whitby, site of landing of Dracula's ship

PROTAGINISTS

• Johnathan harker
• Miss Mina

ANTAGONIST

PLOT

• Dracula, a vampire, is planning to come to England from Transylvania.
• Dracula makes it to England and starts feeding on Lucy Westenra.
• Lucy is turned into a vampire; all her lovers and friends unite to kill her.
• Dracula infects Mina.
• The Crew of Light attempts to "sterilize" all of Dracula's hideouts.

PLOT

• Dracula flees to Transylvania; the Crew of Light pursues.
• Dracula is killed; Quincey Morris dies.