Sabino Pasquale V E Title “Dracula” Author Bram Stoker (1847-1912) Genre Horror / Gothic romance, write in form of letters and diaries Date of first publication 1897 Language Very simple and easy to be understood, the only parts in which the language is more complex is when talk the doctor, Van Helsing. Setting The story take place in different places: in Transylvania in the village and in the castle of the Vampire and in London. The description of the setting in Transylvania provoke fear in the people who read the story, which is setting above all during the night, and then it is a gloomy atmosphere, horrid and full of blood. Plot John Harker, a young lawyer, was sent in Transylvania by Mr Hawkins to sign a contract with Count Dracula, who lived in an isolated castle situated on a mountain. Before he arrived at the castle, he stayed for a period in a small village situated under the mountain. In this village he noted a strange comportment of the villains, which look at him as an alien. An old woman gave him a crucifix and told him to may attention when he will arrive in the castle. When he arrived in the castle the Count prayed him to stay in the castle until he came back home after a small voyage of work. Meanwhile Dracula leaved to London by sea and after few days it happened strange cases of murders (one of this is that of Lucy Westenra, who died after a long illness near her boyfriend Arthur Holmwood and her friends Quincey Morris and Doctor Seward). When a psychopathic, Renfield, decided to call his master, doctor Van Helsing, who understood that these murders are caused by a horrible creature and decided to kill it with crucifixes, garlic and deconsecrated hosts. In this way he was successful to expel Dracula from London to Transylvania, where the Count kill also Mina, the future wife of John Harker. Van Helsing, Morris and Holmwood decided to go in Transylvania to kill the monster. When they arrived they succeed to kill Dracula with the ritual of the stake of ash drive in the heart of the Vampire and with his decapitation. Main characters Dracula: He was the protagonist of the story. He was a Vampire who sucks the blood of the people because it is necessary to him to rest live. He was described as an old elegant man, pallid, with white moustaches, an aquiline nose, bushy hair, long and thin hands, red and thin lips, pointed ears and pointed and white teeth. From the point of view of the comportment he was described as an assassin but also as serious man, who give fear to the people that look him. Jonathan Harker: He was a young lawyer, very passionate (he love Mina and to save her he risk to kill himself and other three person), he was also very impulsive and timorous. We have not many details of his physical characteristics. Mina: after Dracula he was the most significant character of the story. Although she is a woman, she personified the courage, the rationality although hers numerous crisis and her suffering. Van Helsing: Continua »