Jonathan Harker

woman is pure, chase, submissive, and not a sexualized character. Bram Stoker thinks that women should follow the Victorian ideas of purity, chastity, and submission characterized through the three female vampires, Lucy Westenra, and Mina Harker. Jonathan Harker met the three female vampires in Count Dracula’s castle. The vampires were describes as sexualized characters. In Victorian society women should be pure and innocent, yet the vampires were flirtatious and promiscuous. The three female…

First off, I thought it was interesting that Jonathan Harker couldn’t locate the exact location of Count Dracula’s castle on any of the maps that he viewed. This set the mood of the novel for me. I think the author, Bram Stoker, put in little hints of “horror” to set the tone for the rest of the novel. Being that I have not read nor seen Dracula, I thought the first chapter was very intriguing. Whenever the topic of Count Dracula came about it seemed as if everyone in the novel deemed him to…

most important findings in history: psychoanalysis, and someone whose studies are immensely portrayed in the novel of Bram Stoker’s: Dracula. The novel is about a man named Jonathan Harker, a lawyer, who unknowingly takes a business trip to the devils house in Transylvania where he is held prisoner by his host: Count Dracula. Harker finally escapes his captor but is very ill and ends up resting in the countryside of Hungary. Meanwhile back in England, Harker’s wife’s friend, Lucy, has become…

Analysis of Dramatic Meaning in Dracula Dracula, performed by Shake & Stir Theatre Company, examines the 1897 Gothic novel Dracula by Bram Stoker. This production follows Jonathan Harker as he travels to Castle Dracula where he is imprisoned. When Dracula is not satisfied with simply Jonathan, he pursues Jonathan’s love interest, Mina, in a quest for love, but most importantly blood. This production explored the theme of love utilising the gothic conventions of isolation and the ‘Other’. The…

When people think of the infamous Wallachian ruler Vlad III Drăculea, they think of the famous literary monster of nightmares, Bram Stoker’s Count Dracula. Dracula, who has appeared in many media outlets from the big screen of Hollywood to the bright lights of Broadway, is thought by many to have been inspired by the Wallachian Voivode that is better known as Vlad the Impaler. There is, however, little evidence that backs this assumption. In fact, there is actually a lot of evidence that refutes…

The reader experiences the actions in the novel on the basis of diaries, letters and journals written by the characters Jonathan Harker, Mina Harker, Lucy Westenra, Van Helsing and Dr. Seward. No entries are written by count Dracula, he is portrayed by all the other characters. Dracula is the inspiration to many film and other vampire characters. It is said that Stoker read the story…

Lucy’s sickness brought many to her, none of whom could find the reason for it. At the cause of modernity, those around her could not fathom a creature, such as Dracula, would exist, let alone be the cause of her problems. Through her death, she, in turn, brings the death of Dracula and demolishes the ways of modernity of those around her. With the weakening of Lucy, Dr. Seward comes to tend to her and with his knowledge finds no causes for her illness. Van Helsing then comes to England to…

and is looked upon as anti-Christ. When the character Jonathan first suspects Dracula as being inhuman, he first see’s Dracula come out of the castle window and slowly begin to crawl down the castle wall. Jonathan knew that he was supernatural because according to Jonathan he says “What manner of man is this, or what manner of creature is it in the semblance of a man” (Bram Stokers Dracula, Chapter 3), and from that moment on I think Jonathan knew a fight between Christianity was about to…

“Dracula 2000” is a movie that unfolds with, a London antiques dealer travels to New Orleans to save his estranged daughter form his nemesis, Count Dracula. Count Dracula is concealed is a metal coffin in a high tech safe owned by Van Hesling, who has taking Dracula’s blood; to live internal until he figures out a way to kill the immortal beast who is after his daughter Mary Hesling. Thieves break into the safe in a Carfax Abbey in search for paintings to cash – out, but finds a coffins which…

and producer Francis Ford Copppola. The movie is based on the novel Dracula by the author Bram Stoker. the lead characters in the movie Dracula is Gary oldman as Count Dracula, Winona Ryder as Mina Harker, Anthony Hopkins as Professor Abraham Van Helsing and the actor Keanu Reeves as Jonathan Harker. some of the less known characters are Richard E. Grant as Dr. Jack Seward,Cary Elwes as Sir Arthur Holmwood,Billy Campbell as Quincey P. Morris,Sadie Frost as Lucy Westenra and Tom Waits as Mr. R. M…