Dracula

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Title:
Dracula

Author: Bram Stoker
Publisher: 1897 by Archibald Constable & Co.

Story

Jonathan Harker,a young lawyer makes a trip to Transylvania to
sell land in England to Count Dracula. Meanwhile, young fiancŽe, Mina, spending the summer by the sea in Whitby, port town
in England with her friend Lucy Westenra. Lucy falls ill: blood seems to
disappear. Jonathan somehow escapes, has brain fever, saved by the sisters of a convent and marries Mina there. Dr. Van Helsing, Dutch doctor comes to see what is the matter with Lucy. It seems that she is the victim of a vampire. The circle of
LucyÕs freinds, who try to save her, are too late in discovering that Dracula had come across the sea on a merchant vessel,delivering crates of Transylvanian dirt. When she dies, she becomes Un-dead, preying on the blood of little children of
Whitby. They drive a stake through her heart and free her of the spell. She is fully dead. The group of friends: Van Helsing,Jonathan and Mina Harker, and LucyÕs three previous suitors,
Dr. Seward, owner of a mental hospital next door to DraculaÕs future estate, Arthur Holmwood, Lord Godalming, and Quincey
Morris, a young American. They decide to do whatever they can to destroy the vampire. Dracula comes to get Mina and she will
become like him if the group cannot defeat him. Learn that crates of earth are being sent around as places where Dracula
can stop to rest or change form if he so desires. They travel to Translyvania to save their dear friend Mina and rid the world of Count Dracula and all of his followers.

Book vs. Movie

-Excellent Book. Movie (1993) good adaptation, relatively similar,
but a few faults:

-portrayal of Women. Book has strong women (contrast to
Wuthering Heights) but movie weakens them. Book: Mina
makes anthology of info. Movie: Mina cheats on Jonathan with
"prince," Lucy is brought forward as a loose girl, but book has
her shy.

-I liked movieÕs Holmwood: ...