Dracula by Bram Stoker

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Dracula
by Bram Stoker

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…previously on
• A young British lawyer Jonathan Harker sells an old mansion
to Dracula. After a while he knows that Dracula is a vampire;
• Dracula leaves Harker for his hungry vampire sisters to eat.
Harker barely escapes the mansion;
• Dracula is leaving for England on a ship in a box and step by
step kills the crew members.

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• Harker's wife, Mina, discovers that he is in a hospital in Budapest with
a fever and leaves for him. Meanwhile, Mina's friend, Lucy, is losing a
lot of blood every day. Professor Abraham Van Helsing is invited to
Lucy. He immediately determines the presence of supernatural forces.
In the result, Lucy dies.

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• After Harker’s recovery, while walking with his wife in London, he notices a
man resembling the younger Count Dracula. Van Helsing meets the Harkers
and learns that Count Dracula is behind the murder of Lucy. The professor
manages to find out that Dracula during his lifetime was the ruler of
Wallachia – Vlad the Impaler, who lived in the 15th century and quite
possibly became a vampire due to the practice of black magic.

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• Dracula infects Mina with vampirism. Van Helsing finds Dracula and,
after a night battle, kills him just a few moments before sunset. With
his dead Mina is freed from her curse.

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Predictions
Message
My predictions about the
plot were true — Dracula
was killed by Van Helsing
and the good overcame
the evil.
The message of this
book is that good
always triumphs over
evil

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What this book made me think about?
• First of all, this book made me think about the fragility of our life.
Human beings are not the crowns of creation, they are just humble
and defenseless;
• Books about vampires are extremely dynamic but, unfortunately, so
banal.