Dracula Summary, The famous vampire chooses to travel to London to live, grow his bloodline and get more people to kill. All in a location where no one believes in horror stories. If you want to know more about this story keep reading this article.
Dracula Summary
Summary of Dracula by author Bram Stoker
The story unfolds in Hungary, as a result of Jonathan Harker, cataloged as an excellent real estate lawyer, who moves to the inhospitable location of Transylvania, specifically to a Castle where he studied law.
Also, to visualize the conditions of the property, analyze its environment, fulfilling the requirements of its work. In this, place is where the monster casually lives.
While carrying out the tasks that his vocation confers on him, he manages to discover that the mysterious fortress belongs to a Vampire. A mysterious being who possessed in him many inhuman powers.
For example, being able to run faster, have supernatural strength, extremely sharp and really pointed teeth, hypnotize wolves, go out at night to kill voraciously and also disappear in the trails of smoke that it lets flow in the air.
By then the young lawyer, who is an expert in shorthand, takes in his writings each of the details of the Castle and better yet, of what happens.
Jonathan discovers Dracula
He begins to relate his discovery about the beast that haunts the castle, the strange attitudes, and the peculiar interest he had in England.
In addition to how scary the castle seems to him and an occasion when he almost fell victim to 3 beautiful women, who are also vampires.
The poor young man has been unable to leave the castle for a month, imprisoned by the beast. In an insatiable desire to get out of the place, he is surprised to learn that the vampire sleeps in a creepy drawer.
Wishing luck to escape, he gets the help of some gypsies, in order to leave his prison and leave him in the clutches of the vampires.
The Attack on Lucy (Dracula Summary)
Lucy Westenra is a young millionaire who lives in England with a beauty that manages to persuade different men. Among them, Dr. John Seward who serves as Director in the town of Carfax, specifically in an Insane Asylum.
Quincey Morris, a Texas millionaire who loves adrenaline, and Arthur Holmwood, Lucy's fiancé and son of Lord Godalming, all these characters appear at almost the same time in the story.
The beautiful girl is cornered by Dracula who insatiably pursues his prey and manages to attack her for one night. Mina Murray, who is the girlfriend of Jonathan Harker, somehow realizes what is happening to Lucy.
Murray makes a presence in the place, but does not pay real attention, since Lucy is a sleepwalker and believes that they are only the normal effects of a night person.
Lucy gets sick quickly while no one has found a cure for her condition, so her fiancé decides to bring Dr. Seward to check her out without getting any positive news.
Seward therefore seeks the help of Dr. Van Helsing, a famous doctor in Germany and a friend of his, who also knows about the paranormal and the occult. Dracula, noticing what is happening, kills Lucy, turning her into a vampire, thus destroying the plans of her enemies.
The doctor at that time had already tried to give Lucy blood transfusions without being able to save her, in addition, he took into account that he knows about the ability of vampires and for his benefit the weaknesses they possess.
Lucy becomes a vampire
Van Helsing seeks to teach Arthur that Lucy is no longer who she thinks she is, and that her heart must be pierced, in this case with a stake; Also, you have to behead her. The only way to release her form is that, as vampires often regenerate if not killed properly.
The specialist visits with Arthur, a cemetery where Lucy's body lies, which is not found for obvious reasons. Finally, they check at dawn that if what they thought is reality, Arthur is surprised to see what happens.
The plan against the Vampire
The group meets to put together a plan, if the monster is not stopped, the entire population is in danger. They discover that Dracula has a plan to create a large family of vampires throughout England.
His plan was to leave coffins throughout the region, so that when he killed his victims his army would grow rapidly. RM Renfield becomes a follower of the evil demon, who offers him freedom and many animal lives, so he decides to attack Jonathan's wife, Mina, as a subordinate of his boss.
Helsing notices that Mina is a vampire, but she needs Dracula's blessing in a ceremony where she will ingest his blood. They employ a plan of attack, purifying all the objects to defend themselves, but Dracula flees to one of the coffins from him and then threatens them to run away on Piccadilly.
Under hypnotism, Mina manages to show the location of Dracula, who was returning home after the attack of many people who were against him.
In Varna, they wait for a ship in which Dracula is transported, but with his powers he perceives the ambush heading to Galatz in the vicinity of this area.
Helsing's new plan
Creating a new plan to stay on the ship's path across the Sereth River, Jonathan and Arthutr begin their journey on a steam powered ship. They cannot continue, because there is a rough part of the river on the outskirts of the Castle.
Seward and Quiencey on horseback ride to the castle so that the vampire cannot enter and dies trying. Helsing and Mina defeat the vampires by killing them inside their boxes, purifying the entire castle during the day and waiting for the night.
When the night arrives they stop a transport in the outskirts, which had a box where Dracula was and a dispute begins. Morris dies trying, but between everyone and Jonathan's ability, they attack the vampire with a blessed stake.
After seven years and forgetting what happened, the Harkers conceive a little one, with the names of the group of friends, especially for Quincey who offered his life to save them.
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First Chapter-Diary of Jonathan Harker May 4 and 5
Dracula welcomes him and tells him to come in. He thinks he sees shadows, he is afraid of the appearance of the place, he does not see mirrors. The two go out to dinner, the vampire shows her to his room, and they finally get some sleep before the sun rises.
On the 7th of May, Jonathan finds London charts and many mysterious books. He settles the plan to finalize the affairs of the purchase of an estate in Carfax, from the medieval era and quite apart from the city, near the asylum where Dr. Seward works.
May 8th: Jonathan shaves with a mirror that he carried in his pocket. The Count just enters and cannot see him through the mirror while he was shaving, which causes him to cut himself. The Count quickly approaches to see his wound with insatiable desire, but he is pushed away by a crucifix that the lady gave to Harker.
Harker's diary for May 12 and 15
He realizes that there are no service personnel in the mysterious fortress, and he increasingly doubts the powers his mysterious host possesses.
The still unknown character tells Harker about the incredible wars in which his lineage has participated, in such detail that it seems that he himself has lived through them.
To reassure Jonathan, the Count gives him the authorization to send messages to his closest friends, with the condition that they stay for a certain time, to finalize the real estate details with the purchase of the property.
On May 15, he saw Dracula come out of a wall. Consequently, he enters a room and falls asleep.; No time passed and 3 very beautiful vampires wake him up wanting to bite him, but the vampire drives them away, scolding them and giving them a body inside a sack so they can feed.
Chapter 4 Diary days from June 18 to 20 (Summary of Dracula)
Harker had thought that it was all part of a dream, but then he realized that the 3 women did exist, seeing them during the next day.
He is asked to transmit emails to different sites, there were 3 and each with a particular date, so he thought he would die on one of these dates, leaning towards the last one.
By May 31, Jonathan realizes that his suitcase full of his belongings disappeared without a trace.
The month of June arrives
On June 17, 2 carts arrive removing some crates that were in the place, Harker tries to ask for help without achieving anything. Days later, Jonathan sees a horror from the window, hypnotized, it was of a woman who cries out for the life of her son, but at one point she is devoured by wolves.
On June 25, Jonathan sneaks into the vampire's room and sees luxurious garments, knowing the Castle better, he enters a church with fifty coffins and one with the Count's, sleeping with his eyes open as if he were dead.
Already in July, Harker is locked in his room without keys, he already knows that he will be killed. He goes to the crypt where the Count is, he almost kills him but only hurts his forehead, seeing that he does not succeed, he writes letters to say goodbye to his family.
Chapter 5
Mina decides to contact and explain to Lucy that she is studying the art of shorthand in order to work with her husband. A few days after this event, Jonathan contacts Dr. Seward to see him because he misses him, and tells him that he sees a patient with peculiar abilities.
Chapter 6
May 24 in Wilhelmina's diary, she talks about ghosts and her friends laugh; while Mina worries about the whereabouts of her fiancé. June 5 and R. M Renfield is furious that they won't let him have a cat eating several of the insects he collected.
Chapter 7
Mina discovers the tragic news of a ship with no survivors, two dead dogs, one of them is attacked by a wild animal.
The Demeter before its terrible end: The captain informs that an unknown skinny and tall man could be the cause of the murders.
Chapter 8 (Dracula Summary)
Lucy during the early morning is attacked, Mina watched the moment when a shadow pounces on her, noticing two holes like a bite.
August 13 to August 19, they see a bat through their windows, in addition, Lucy begins to feel like her soul begins to leave her body during frustrating dreams.
On the other hand, Mina comments that she is traveling to Budapest but with great worries, not knowing about her fiancé and comments that Renfield awaits the arrival of her Boss, who will give her many dowries only if she is faithful to him.
Chapter 9
Mina addresses Lucy on August 24 (Seward's Diary): Mina comments that she is traveling to Budapest but with great worries as she does not hear from her fiancé. The doctor realizes that Renfield is behaving strangely, lets him go and perceives that he is going to the Count's house.
He returns unmotivated, because he thinks that his Lord has abandoned him. The doctor then notices that Lucy is getting worse and calls her colleague "Van Helsing".
Chapter 10
Helsing starts giving Lucy blood transfusions, who is getting worse and worse. She suggests to the esteemed Arthur that he donate her blood to make her feel better, but the next day dawns more complicated, they need Jonathan's blood to continue with the transfusions.
Chapter 11
Lots of inexplicable things happen, a wolf escapes from the zoo hypnotized by Dracula. Lucy stays with her mother who is sick, a wolf enters breaking the door, her mother dies from fright, she hears a little bird outside her and confuses it with her mother's singing.
Chapter 12
Lucy begins to change over time, presenting sharp teeth and strange behavior, while sleeping. Jonathan is weak due to transfusions and also has strange behaviors, as well as terrifying dreams that prevent him from resting properly.
With the days, Lucy's teeth are sharper. As she dies she wants to kiss her fiancé and love of her life, but Dr. Van Helsing prevents the couple from crossing.
Chapter 13 (Dracula Summary)
Helsing performs an autopsy on Lucy to have a trace of her strange illness and what it has caused. Also, she begins to investigate the diaries of the husbands to get data on what was happening in the background; some children are lost during those days of September 25.
Chapter 14
Helsing, reviewing Jonathan's diary, connects all the data and tells Lucy that everything is true. Plans begin to defeat the villain of this story, while more and more cases are discovered.
Chapters 15,16,17,18
Van Helsing performs autopsies on the victims (the missing children). Continuously, they discover Lucy's body in perfect condition, and with everything clear, he writes to Seward, to behead Lucy.
They get Lucy in the cemetery, with stakes Helsing prevents her from approaching, since she already knows she is a vampire. They decide to look for Lucy and free her mind from her by killing her with blessed tools, so that she doesn't kill anyone.
Jonathan searches for ways to find and eliminate Dracula through the events that have taken place, including the zoo and the wolf, the dead children, Lucy, and even the ship Demeter.
Chapter 19,20 and 21
The group arrives at the vampire's house with dogs, who fight rats that were defending the coffins hidden in the castle. They managed to see the 3 vampires and even thought they saw Dracula, however, they later believed that it was just a sudden illusion.
Renfield meanwhile, in his shelter has had a serious accident in which he was seriously injured.
Dracula's new victim, Mina, comments that he offered her blood at night as a plan to make her enter his family. At this point Dracula already has many new victims.
Chapter 24, 25, 26
Mina says goodbye to her group, stating that if she changes, they will not hesitate to behead her. She would thus free her soul from the prison of Dracula's curse.
The plan against Count Dracula begins the plan is prepared Hensing and Seward prepare to go through the heart of the demon. During these chapters, the war to eliminate Dracula is insatiable, the gypsies, Morris and Seward go to the Castle
Arthur and Jonathan pursue the Count and right in front of the Castle the dispute begins, a follower of the vampire manages to seriously injure Morris while Jonathan manages to drive a stake through the heart of his enemy. Then they cut off his head, thus eliminating the difficult and intelligent Dracula.
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