Count Dracula
Undead aristocrat with a plan
- Wants
- To take London's blood, one move at a time.
- Undone by
- He is defeated by the one thing he cannot do: stop needing to sleep somewhere known.
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NovelVictorian · 1897Study guide · no full textSteady
Dracula
Bram Stoker →The horror works because the story is assembled from documents: nobody has the whole picture, and the reader is a step ahead of everyone. Notice how thoroughly Victorian anxieties about blood, borders and respectable women get folded into the monster.
Study guide
This work is still in copyright, so there is no full text on the page. What you get instead: the context, the cast, the ideas and the themes — enough to read it well, and to know exactly what to watch for in the first thirty pages.
“Listen to them — the children of the night. What music they make!”
The castFull atlas →
Mina Harker
Teacher, and the group's memory
- Wants
- To keep everyone's accounts straight, and to survive her own connection to the count.
- Undone by
- She blames herself for evidence she did not invent.
Now read the first page with all of this in mind.
The notes here are the map; the book is the journey.