Dracula

"Dracula"

Theme. The Consequences of Modernity Setting,evil against good, yes it worked out, it adds to the novel a scense of how society was reacting in those day, it show how things were in the Victorian Era.

Setting. Transylvania and England, yes it is functional because of the geography that the places and countries where the story takes place helps the reader to have a complete image of the event that is happening. We know that the story has a cold tone and those places have a cold weather so it complements the moment and the story.

Characters.

Count Dracula - A centuries-old vampire and Transylvanian nobleman, Count Dracula inhabits a crumbling castle in the Carpathian Mountains.

Van Helsing- He is Dracula’s enemy and the leader of the group that hunts Dracula down and destroys him.

Jonathan Harker - A solicitor, or lawyer, whose firm sends him to Transylvania to conclude a real estate transaction with Dracula.

Mina Murray - Jonathan Harker’s fiancée. Mina is a practical young woman who works as a schoolmistress.

Lucy Westenra - Mina’s best friend and an attractive, beautiful young woman.

John Seward - A talented young doctor, formerly Van Helsing’s pupil.

Arthur Holmwood - Lucy’s fiancé and a friend of her other suitors.

Quincey Morris - A plainspoken American from Texas, and another of Lucy’s suitors.

Renfield - A patient at Seward’s mental asylum.

Mrs. Westenra - Lucy’s mother.

(Are they real individuals with a balance of good and bad traits? Are they consistently drawn? Are they interesting?)

Not all of them are real, some of them were real like Lucy but after they became vampires, in this story we have humans and mystic creatures.

Yes there is an attraction between the characters, good and bad drawn but they are balanced.

Yes they are interesting, personally i like when the story has real characters and mystic creatures.

Plot. It is believable? We need to remember that this is not a novel wich tells a story that can actually happened, for me, yes the story is believable speaking about the sequence of facts that is has. Does the climax grow naturally from the actions of the characters? Yes the consequences of the actions of the characters are the ones which give place to the next event in the story.

Narrative point of view. It is in first person (we have many narrators)

Does it add to the effectiveness of the novel? Yes, we have a more personal point of view and that helps us to know the reals feelings of the character.

Does it unify the novel? Yes, we have a complete and unified point of view.

Tone. Describe the tone. Scared,Anxious,Excited, Worried.

What is its relation to the narrative point of view? We know and feel the same as the narrator, we know the reactions to the experiences he is having because of the point of view the story has.

Conclusion.

What do you regard as strong and weak points of the novel?

I see as a strong point that this is a story in which many others novels are based on, everyone knows who is Dracula, maybe not everyone knows the complete story but they have an idea, is a popular novel and i really like it, another strong point is the background and the meaning of the story because if we see deeper we can find the real ideas that Bram Stoker was talking about like the female expression of the Victorian Era and how the changes of those times influenced the society.

Would you recommend it? Yes Why? Because is a classic novel and i think it has a little taste of everything so it will be a good story for a lot of people, and because i really like it.

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