Dracula also reflects the trend that was happening at the time which was the struggle between science and religion or more specifically modernism and superstition. For example, in the beginning of the novel when Jonathan Harker was making his way to Dracula’s castle in Transylvania the people there were offering him crucifixes such as an older woman who took “a crucifix from her neck offered it to me” (Stoker, 9). In contrast, the English residents do not seem to be hesitant in moving forward technologically. Dr. Seward records his diary on a phonograph and Mina practices typewriting on a new machine. Some of the English residents are even openly admitting that they do not believe in any threat from a supernatural monster such as Dracula. In
