Objects In Bram Stoker's Dracula '

Imagine a castle where the host has skin as white as snow ☺ (simile), is remarkably strong, and has a strange obsession with blood. In Dracula, Jonathan Harker, an English lawyer, goes to visit Count Dracula in his castle in Transylvania. He ends up figuring out that Count Dracula is a vampire escapes. Jonathan ends up in the hospital with brain fever, while Count Dracula makes his way to London on a cargo ship. Jonathan’s fiancé’s friend, Lucy, ends up getting bitten by Count Dracula and becomes ill then eventually dies. The three most essential, plot-twisting objects in the novel so far are the Demeter, Jonathan Harkers’s diary, and the stake that kills Lucy.
First of all, the Demeter is a significant object in the novel for various reasons. First off, the …show more content…
First off, the diary creates a special type of bond between Mina and Jonathan. When Mina visits Jonathan in the hospital, Jonathan makes her promise that she will not open the diary unless it is completely necessary. This promise is a wedding ring that ties their marriage together. ☺ (metaphor) This puts all of Jonathan’s trust in Mina’s hands, and it solidifies a bond between the two of them. Also, Jonathan’s diary is what was able to restore his memory and let Mina know what happened in Transylvania. Mina was able to read through the diary and show it to Vans Helsing. After Jonathan forgot about everything, Mina said to him: “I fear I must open that parcel and know what is written…it is for your own dear sake” (Stoker 184). Mina knows the only way to understand what is going on is to read through the diary and find out what happened in Transylvania. Without his diary, Jonathan would remain in his musty state of mind, and no one else would ever figure out that Count Dracula is in London. Altogether, Jonathan’s diary creates an everlasting bond between Jonathan and Mina and it acts as a file cabinet for Jonathan’s