Dracula

RIASSUNTO DI DRACULA- Bram Stoker Reggio Emilia, 27/09/2006 PLOT OF DRACULA'S STORY (RIASSUNTO DI DRACULA) Bram Stoker Jonathan Harker, a solicitor from London, arrived at the Golden Krone Hotel on the eve of St George's Day, the night when evil things had complete power.The landlady gave Jonathan a crucifix to protect him from evil.The next day John took a public coach to the Borgo Pass where he met the Count's coach.The driver of this coach was very strange:he has very red eyes and pointed teeth.The journey in the coach was like a nightmare.The driver sometimes stopped the coach when he saw faint blue flames.Finally the driver of the coach left John in front of the massive door of the Count's castle.For a moment nobody opened the door.Just then a tall old man with a long white moustache opened the door.The old man didn't come out to greet John but he told John to come in of his own will.This strange old man was Count Dracula himself.He was the only person Jonathan saw in the castle.At first they talked about the old estate that the Count was buying in England, but certain strange things began to happen. For example, one morning while John was shaving, the Count came close to him, but John couldn't see his reflection in the shaving mirror.When the Count saw that John has some blood on his chin for a cut, the Count tried to grab his throat.Fortunately, John had the crucifix around his neck.After this frightening event John realised he was a prisoner.Also the Count warned him not to fall asleep in other parts of the castle.But John disobeyed the Count, and he fell asleep in a room where noble women had once livedThere, three women appeared who didn't cast shadows in the moonlight.They came close to John and one of them was about to kiss his throat with her voluptuous lips.Just then the Counte appeared and grasped the neck of the woman, and pulled her away.The Count told them that John was his, but that later they could kiss him as much as they wanted. Soon, John realised that the Count was going to kill him, and that Drac was somw kind of monster.In fact John found the Count lying in a box in the chapel.A few days later when he looked inside the great box, the Count's white hair had become dark grey and there were drops of blood on his chin and neck. John then realised that he was helping to bring that monster full of blood to London.He picked up a shovel and tried to hit Dracula,but the Count blocked him with some magical power pf his eyes. John then ran out of the vault and to the Count's room.The wind blew the door shut and he was a prisoner again. Later he heard a wagon with the boxes of earth and the Count's box going away. John realised that he was alone in the castle with the vampire women.He decided to escape by climbing down the wall of the castle. After Mina's best friend Lucy came to visit her in the town of Whitby many strange things happened.First, there was a hreat storm, and then that night Mina found Lucy on a bench with something Continua »