DRACULA

Costea Ana Larisa Diana

Clasa : a IX a E
 Dracula , Gothic Roman of Bram Stoker , published in
1897, was the most popular literary work derived from 
vampire legends and became the basis for a whole genre of
liteature and film.
SUMMARY
Dracula includes diary entries, letters and telegrams written by
the main characters. It starts with Jonathan Harker, a young English
lawyer, while traveling in Transylvania. Harker plans to meet with
Count Dracula, a client of his company, to complete a real estate
transaction. When he arrives in Transylvania, the locals react with
terror after revealing his destination, namely Dracula's Castle.
Although this slightly worries him, he continues. The ominous
howls of wolves ring in the air when they reach the castle. When
Harker meets Dracula, he admits that the man is pale in the face and
behaves strangely. Harker becomes even more worried when, as he
shaves while shaving, Dracula throws himself at his neck. Soon
after, Harker is seduced by three vampire women, from whom he
barely escapes. He then finds out the secret of Dracula, that he is a
vampire and survives by drinking human blood. Harker correctly
assumes he will be the earl's next victim.
 Meanwhile, in England, Harker's fiancée, Mina, visits her
friend Lucy Westenra, who recently got engaged after
refusing a number of suitors. One night, Mina is forced to
look for Lucy because she has fallen back into her old habit
of sleepwalking. When Mina finds her outside near a
cemetery, there seems to be a shape hovering over her for a
split second. Mina notices two small red marks on Lucy's
neck and assumes that she must have been accidentally
stung. In the following days, Lucy falls ill and is sometimes
seen through a window next to a bat. Lucy takes care of Dr.
Seward and Dr. Van Helsing, who, after a series of failed
blood transfusions, decide that further action is needed.
Then he dresses Lucy and takes her to the room, a strategy
used to ward off vampires. But Lucy is dying soon.
 After her death, many report the appearance of a creature that
attacks children in the area. When Jonathan who managed to
escape Count Dracula's castle and Mina return to England, now
as a married couple, Jonathan's accounts of Dracula lead Van
Helsing to believe that Lucy has contracted vampirism from the
Count and is the one who it torments children. To prevent her
from killing her, they dig up her body, pull her through her
heart, cut off her head and fill her mouth with garlic.
Now that Lucy has been cared for, the group decides to find
Count Dracula and the 50 trash cans he brought with
him. According to tradition, Dracula needs the dirt of his home
country to stay healthy. The group tries to destroy the boxes so
that Dracula has no means of regeneration. One night, amid
feelings of uneasiness over Mina's recent behavior, Van Helsing
and Seward enter her room to find Jonathan unconscious and
Mina bleeding from a cut in Dracula's chest. 
  The vampire disappears and returns to Transylvania
only to be followed by the determined group. I find him
buried in the last box of dirt and they immediately cut off
his head and stabbed him in the heart.Dracula collapses in
the dust. Vampire hunters also lose one of them, Quincey
Morris, during the expedition.
Source: the book "DRACULA" by Bram Stoker