Dracula: A Review
Dracula is a gothic horror novel written by Bram Stoker in 1897. It is set in the late 1800s in Romania and England. The main characters are Jonathan Harker, a lawyer; Count Dracula; Mina Murray, Harker’s fiancée; and Lucy Westenra, Mina’s best friend. The story begins as Jonathan Harker is traveling to Castle Dracula in Transylvania to close a real estate deal with a nobleman named Count Dracula. While traveling through the stunning countryside, he learns from the local peasants that his destination is haunted; these peasants urge him to flee while he can, giving him enchantments and charms against evil and uttering unusual words that Harker eventually finds out mean “vampire.” Once he arrives at the castle, he meets Count Dracula, a kind and hospitable host; however, the longer he stays, the clearer it gets that Count Dracula isn’t a normal human being. Harker is doomed. In terms of pop culture, Dracula set the trend for vampire books and vampires in general. Dracula wasn’t the firs