Dracula [Summary]

in #writing8 years ago

Hello friends! How are you doing? I hope you are having a happy and productive day. I bring you the summary of a book I just finished reading, a classic of universal literature, the most popular work of the Irish writer Bram Stoker, Dracula 😈.

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Bram Stoker

The year 1897 the figure of the archetypal vampire saw the light, and since then it has been linked indissolubly to the name of Abraham or Bram Stoker. The work, influenced by Carmilla-short novel by Sheridan Le Fanu-narrates the experiences and tragedies that affect a group of people united by love, friendship and honor.

The story begins when Jonathan Harker, a young English lawyer engaged to governess Wilhemina (Mina) Murray, must travel to the remote castle of Count Dracula, in the Carpathian Mountains of Transylvania, to close the sale of a property in London. From the first moment, Harker is impressed with the appearance of the count, a tall and thin man, with prominent forehead, aquiline nose, firm and cruel mouth, long sharp teeth and red and ruthless eyes.

During this time Jonathan becomes guest of the count and discovers that he is under the same roof with a despicable, mean and ruthless being that keeps him as a hostage. As if that were not enough, his curiosity leads him to discover the presence of three beautiful and young vampires, who one night are about to turn him into a vampire, however the arrival of the count could prevent it.

With the young man still a prisoner, Dracula decides to travel to London, organizes the arrival of gypsies to move a box full of the land of his homeland with him inside, this being the only way in which the count can travel. What he ignores is that his victim is planning a way to escape. At the same time, Mina Murray decides to travel to the city of Whitby to spend the summer season with her best friend, Lucy Westenra.

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Dracula and Jonathan Harker

The arrival of Dracula in London coincides with the holiday season of friends, and because Lucy suffers from sleepwalking this takes advantage to master their dreams. It attracts her to the cemetery and drinks from her blood which deteriorates her health while turning her into a vampire. While that happens, Mina is witness to the episode, because she wakes up at midnight and notices the absence of her friend goes out to look for her.

During the escape, Jonathan falls into the river that surrounds the count's castle being swept away by the current. Fortunately, some nuns find him and take him to a hospital in Budapest, where he is treated while recovering from meningitis. One of the sisters contacts Mina and informs her of her fiancé's situation, so she leaves immediately leaving Lucy suffering "a strange illness".

Meanwhile Lucy's symptoms get worse, she looks extremely pale, she is extremely weak and has two small holes in her neck, which Mina thinks she caused them with a pin (the night she found her in the cemetery) when holding her scarf so that his illness does not get worse. Since Lucy's condition is getting worse every day, her fiancé Lord Arthur Holmwood (Lord Godalming) and her friend Quincey Morris, seek advice from Dr. John Seward, who is the director of a mental hospital where a patient is confined. zoophagous Renfield, also under the influence of Count Dracula.

When not seeing any type of improvement in Lucy, Dr. Seward pieda helps his professor Dr. Abraham Van Helsing, a Dutch doctor with many years of experience. He goes to the call of his friend, he takes great affection for Lucy, but despite the efforts of all, the many treatments and blood transfusions, the young woman dies. Days later, curious facts occur that make Dr. Van Helsing think that Lucy has become a "No-Dead" under the influence of Dracula, and she is the cause of the news that the press reports.

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Lucy Westenra

After many efforts convinces the three friends and together they go at midnight to the tomb of Lucy, as they run the lid of the urn they realize that her body is not there, and then they watch her turned into a "No-Dead" "With a child in his arms who is drinking his blood. Horrified they decide to return during the day to kill the monster.

Van Helsing believes that the best thing is for Arthur to nail a stake in the heart of his beloved in order to free her from the curse of Dracula and for the soul to reach peace.

After their wedding, Mina and Jonathan return to London, and one afternoon they discover that the count is also there, so the young man gives a diary to his wife in which he wrote daily during his stay in Transylvania. This one is dismayed and, as if that were not enough, a telegram from Van Helsing informs him in detail about the death of his friend. When exchanging some letters, Mina decides to share to the doctor the restlessness of the mental state of her husband and the experiences of this one in the castle of Dracula, with which this one confirms his suspicion: The count is a vampire, and it is necessary to give death him.

Once informed Arthur, Quincey, Seward and Harker join the efforts of Van Helsing to kill Dracula. First try to finish him in London, seeking and purifying their shelters with consecrated hosts, but at the same time the monster convinces Renfield to allow him to enter the sanatorium, where friends had believed to keep Mina out of danger.

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Count Dracula

Taking advantage of the absence of men, Mina enters and makes a new victim, and Renfield decides to fight against "his master", but Dracula murders him and bites Mina again, but this time makes her drink of his blood to link her to him. Soon after, the friends face the count and can not defeat the mortals flees to his castle.

These march after him and travel to the castle separated into three groups: Mina with Van Helsing, Arthur with Jonathan and John with Quincey.

Mina and Van Helsing make the journey by car to the castle, following the route that at the beginning of the story crossed Jonathan. During the night the three vampires appear before them and Van Helsing manages to drive them away with a host. At dawn the doctor enters the castle, leaving Mina protected with hosts and other amulets, and sticks a stake into the hearts of the three precious women.

Near the sunset the count was approaching his castle, in his coffin guarded by gypsies. At that moment the friends meet and they fight a battle that Jonathan puts an end to when he crosses his dagger in Jonathan's neck while Morris goes through the vampire's heart just before the sun rises forever ending with him and the spell that Weighed on Mina.

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Death of Count Dracula

In this way we arrive at the end of this incredible literary work friends, I hope I have summarized the best possible history and are encouraged to read this fabulous classic of literature. If you like, do not forget to let me know with your comments, best regards 🙋 We keep reading 😉

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