DRACULA by Bram Stoker
This reading bring to us one of the most importants literary novels of all time: DRACULA. I will tell you a summary, my summary, and I hope that you like it. Right, this is a homework for my English class, but I know that I will enjoy and I will learn English, or at least will know about literary novels, whatever, I hope that you'll enjoy it!
Chapter 1: Jonathan Harker's Journal
In this chapter, Jonathan describes the landscapes, from 3 to May 5, from Munich to Hungary.
When he goes to Hungary, the owner of Hotel Royale gives to Jonathan a crucifix, beacuse they received a letter from Dracula, it says: “My Friend.—Welcome to the Carpathians. I am anxiously expecting you. Sleep well to-night. At three to-morrow the diligence will start for Bukovina; a place on it is kept for you. At the Borgo Pass my carriage will await you and will bring you to me. I trust that your journey from London has been a happy one, and that you will enjoy your stay in my beautiful land. Your friend, Dracula". Everyone was a little scared.
Chapter 2: Jonathan Harker's Journal
Upon arriving at the Castle of Dracula, when he comes and open the door and invites him to spend. The Count shows his room, gives dinner and talks to Harker about his work during his stay there. After, they went to sleep. The next day, when he was in the bathroom, Harker cuts his skin while shaving, Dracula looks him like a delicious delicacy. Jonathan begins to feel insecure, so inspect the castle door each door, that's when he realizes that all door are loocked, making his prisioner.
Chapter 3: Jonathan Harker's Journal
May 12 to May 15.
In this chapter, Jonathan realizes that isn't bondage in the Castle, and thinks it was The Count who arrived to him at the place, questioning his supernatural powers over the wolfs the other night.
Dracula tells to Jonathan about his battler against turks and send letters to his friends notifying that he would stay another month.
That same day in the night, Jonathan sees Dracula escaping from his window, like a lizard in the walls, and question to him, what kind of creature was that? He saw Dracula do that two nights in a row.
After, three women appear, like if Jonathan was food, but Dracula keeps them away Jonathan, asking them why disobeyed his orders.
Chapter 4: Jonathan Harker's Journal
This story occurs between May 18 and June 30; Jonathan swears that women was a dream, an illusion, but they weren't, his death was come soon.
When the Count said to Jonathan that he should send three letters with a different date, inmediatly he thought the last letter will be the date of his death. So he tried to escape from this Castle, but he couldn't.
All his clothes and accesories has been lost; Jonathan tried to kill Dracula, but he could only hurts his front, having knowledge that he couldn't escape from this Castle, decied says goodbye to his friends and Mina.
Chapter 5: Letters—Lucy and Mina
This chapter is only for letters that were sent.
Letter from Mina Murray to Lucy Westerna May 9
Mina says to Lucy that she is assistant schoolmistress, and she's very anxious to see Jonathan, she said that he returned about a week.
Lucy says to Mina that three men want to marry with her, but she really don't know about her answer.
Chapter 6: Mina Murray’s Journal
Mina tells about her beliefs in ghosts, spirits and sobrenatural creatures. Also, she's very concerned beacuse don't know about her husband.
It's been a month since Mina knows about her husband, she doesn't know that to do, Lucy has sleepwalk disorder. A old man talks to Mina and says that a storm of death is coming.
Chapter 7: Cutting from “The Dailygraph,” 8 August
This is an anecdote or a story about a ship's crew, an unexplained death, a mysterious ship has been arrived, with a captain died, tied up at helm, no one aboard...
The captain describes in a journal that his crew was scared because many have been disappeared. It was attributed to a Romanian, but when he died, it was discovered that there was a skinny, tall and thin man aboard.
Chapter 8: Mina Murray's Journal
- Oh, but I am tired! If it were not that I had made my diary a duty I should not open it to-night.
- I should be quite happy if I only knew if Jonathan.... God bless and keep him.
- Diary again. No sleep now, so I may as well write.
- Then she began to laugh. It seemed a little uncanny to me, and I listened to her breathlessly.
- “I don’t want to talk to you: you don’t count now; the Master is at hand.”
- He was talking, apparently to some one, but I was afraid to go near enough to hear what he was saying...
- So I took the hint, and came too. I was too excited to sleep, but this diary has quieted me, and I feel I shall get some sleep to-night.
Chapter 9: Mina Murray's Journal
- ‘I can tell you this much, my dear: that it was not about anything which he has done wrong himself; and you, as his wife to be, have no cause to be concerned. He has not forgotten you or what he owes to you. His fear was of great and terrible things, which no mortal can treat of.’
- I could only tell him that I was the happiest woman in all the wide world, and that I had nothing to give him except myself, my life, and my trust, and that with these went my love and duty for all the days of my life.
- “Am summoned to see my father, who is worse. Am writing. Write me fully by to-night’s post to Ring. Wire me if necessary.”
- “4 September.—Patient still better to-day.”
Chapter 10: Mina Murray's Journal
- “Have you said anything to our young friend the lover of her?”
- Hereafter it may be of interest to you to see how true you guess. We learn from failure, not from success!
- Thank everybody for being so good to me! Thank God! Good-night, Arthur.
- To my surprise, Van Helsing rose up and said with all his sternness, his iron jaw set and his bushy eyebrows meeting
- He seemed so confident that I, remembering my own confidence two nights before and with the baneful result, felt awe and vague terror.
Chapter 11: Lucy Westenra's Diary
- Let all be put down exactly. Van Helsing and I arrived at Hillingham at eight o’clock. It was a lovely morning; the bright sunshine and all the fresh feeling of early autumn seemed like the completion of nature’s annual work.
- After another hour Lucy waked from her sleep, fresh and bright and seemingly not much the worse for her terrible ordeal.
- “Now, sir, you can go on and arsk me what you want. You’ll excoose me refoosin’ to talk of perfeshunal subjects afore meals. I gives the wolves and the jackals and the hyenas in all our section their tea afore I begins to arsk them questions.”
- Happily Van Helsing has not summoned me, so I need not forego my sleep; to-night I could not well do without it.
Chapter 12: Dr. Seward's Diary
- I could find no means of ingress. Every window and door was fastened and locked, and I returned baffled to the porch. As I did so, I heard the rapid pit-pat of a swiftly driven horse’s feet. They stopped at the gate, and a few seconds later I met Van Helsing running up the avenue.
- I have not the heart to go through with the details.
- In accordance with your wishes, I enclose report of the conditions of everything left in my charge....
- “We thought her dying whilst she slept, and sleeping when she died.”
Chapter 13: Dr. Seward's Diary
- As he spoke he took from his pocket-book the memorandum which had been in Lucy’s breast, and which she had torn in her sleep.
- Why mutilate her poor body without need? And if there is no necessity for a post-mortem and nothing to gain by it—no good to her, to us, to science, to human knowledge—why do it? Without such it is monstrous.
- He was a good fellow, but his rejoicing at the one little part—in which he was officially interested—of so great a tragedy, was an object-lesson in the limitations of sympathetic understanding.
- “No, no, not that, for God’s sake! not yet at any rate. Forgive me, sir: I did not mean to speak offensively; it is only because my loss is so recent.”
- And now we are all scattered; and for many a long day loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings.
- It has the same tiny wouCome to-day by quarter-past ten train if you can catch it. Can see you any time you call.
Chapter 14: Mina Harker's Journal
- He will be away all day till late, for he said he could not lunch at home.
- Come to-day by quarter-past ten train if you can catch it. Can see you any time you call.
- I took my courage à deux mains and waited. In a few minutes Mary opened the door, and announced “Dr. Van Helsing.”
- “I promise,” he said as I gave him the papers; “I shall in the morning, so soon as I can, come to see you and your husband, if I may.”
- You can get away, if you are in a hurry, by the 10:30 train, which will bring you to Paddington by 2:35. Do not answer this, as I shall take it that, if I do not hear, you will come to breakfast.
- He threw himself with a despairing gesture into a chair, and placed his elbows on the table, covering his face with his hands as he spoke:— “They were made by Miss Lucy!”
Chapter 15: Dr. Seward's Diary
Seward feels dejected with the suggestion of Van Helsing. However, research continues to respect for his teacher. The two visit one of the injured children and find that the marks are very similar to those of Lucy. Seward suggests that this must be the work of a grave robber. But Van Helsing asks you to do guard one part of the cemetery.
Chapter 16: Dr. Seward's Diary
That same night, four men go to the Lucy’s grave and find out empty. Then, Van Helsing closed the door of the grave with garlics so Lucy cannot open. Next, the men wait; finally, appears a figure dressed in white and carrying a child. It’s Lucy! Or a monster similar to her, with fire eyes and mouth spotted of blood. The men surround her and remove the child while call passionately to Holmwood, he begins to move, but Val Hensing stands between two and shows a crucifix, Lucy backs and Van Helsing remove carefully the garlics and the vampire enter to her grave.
Chapter 17: Dr. Seward's Diary
At the request of Van Helsing, Jonathan and Mina Harker decide stay in the madhouse with Seward. Mina transcribes to a machine the Seward’s Diary. He reads Harker’s Diary and he realizes for first time ever that maybe Dracula be his neighbor and there is a connection between vampire proximity and Renfield’s character. Last one is on calm for the moments, but Seward questions himself if the tranquility has a relationship with whereabouts of Dracula.
Chapter 18: Dr. Seward's Diary
Mina visits Renfield with permission from Seward. Van Helsing arrives at madhouse, pleased that the Seward’s diaries and letters has been transcribed to a machine and sorted, gives thanks to Mina, but disclaims any task that are related with defeat a vampire. That’s no task for any woman.
Chapter 19: Jonathan Harker's Journal
The men’s group travel to Carfax Mansion armed with bleeding objects. Is not any trail of Dracula in the chapel; but there is a terrible stench and they get twenty nine of fifty. For terror to all, chapel begins to become infested of rats. The men use a whistle to call dogs and catch the rats. Van Helsing is in good vibes despite missing twenty one boxes. Hoping to get information from a maniac, Van Helsing tries to interview, but this one refuses to cooperate and curses to the doctor.
Chapter 20: Jonathan Harker's Journal
Harker’s researches reveals that twelve missed boxes are in two houses of London, the other nine are in a house of Piccadilly, a London suburb. Harker and the other ones question themselves how enter to a house in a popular area.
Chapter 21: Dr. Seward's Diary
Renfield admits that Dracula sometimes visit him and demanded obedience a change of flies, spiders and other living creatures. Late, when Mina visits, Renfield realizes that she is pallid; Dracula had stolen her life. When the Count slides that night en the cell of Renfield, he shows angry and tries to stop, but vampire eyes sear him and fly through the room. Dracula flies from madhouse.
Chapter 22: Jonathan Harker's Journal
Harker writes in his journal the final of story of Renfield. Before that escapes from the madhouse, the Count visited one more time to the madman, broke his neck and he killed him. Harker and pals were to the Carfax Mansion next day and placed a wafer in each of the boxes in the land of Dracula, also he can’t enter in any. But before, Van Helsing seals Mina’s room with wafers. Pass a wafer in front of Mina. The wafer burns his skin and leaves a brillant wound. Mina cries because she feels impure
Chapter 23: Dr. Seward's Diary
Men get keys from other houses that have Dracula in the city. Holmwood and Morris rush to sterilize the twelve boxes that are stored in London, while Harker and Van Helsing does the same with the boxes that are in Piccadilly. When they get to Piccadilly, men only get eight boxes: the ninth disappeared. Mina sends a message that warns that Dracula has left Carfax. So men the earls anticipate coming soon to Piccadilly to protect their boxes. Men expect and Dracula appears. However, since it is day, the count is not strength. Van Helsing's team tries to ambush him, but Dracula jumps through a window and escapes.
Chapter 24: Dr. Seward's Phonograph Diary, spoken by Van Helsing
Team Van Helsing discovers that the Count has boarded a ship named Zarina Catherina bound for Varna, the same Russian port which started three months ago Dracula. Van Helsing made a speech in which he expresses the need to kill Dracula for the good of mankind.
Chapter 25: Dr. Seward's Diary
Before leaving them, Mina asks to men who promise to liquidate if it ends up becoming a vampire. Men swear solemnly fulfill the desire of Mina. On October 12, addressed the Express to reach East and Varna, where Van Helsing takes all steps to address the Czarina Catherine comes barely this.
Chapter 26: Dr. Seward's Diary
Seward writes in his diary while traveling from Varna to Galatz. He realizes that Mina trances appear less and less, but are still useful. The team hopes to Galatz before the box is empty, but it's too late. Czarina Catherine captain informs them that a businessman called Immanuel Hildesheim picked up the box and gave it to a seller called Petrof Skinsky. Shortly after, the body of Skinsky is found in the cemetery and the open throat. Mina investigates possible routes that the Count used to return to the castle, so men are divided. Mina and Van Helsing take a train; Holmwood and Harker board a steamer; and Seward and Morris traveling on horseback through the countryside. Van Helsing heads to hurry to the castle of Count intended to purify before the latter arrives.
During the river trip, Jonathan and Arthur heard about a boat that are advanced and deduce that there is Dracula, Seward and Morris are galloping in their horses. Meanwhile, Mina writes that her and Van Helsing have arrived of Veresti where they are obligated to arrive in a carriage to reach the castle
Chapter 27: Mina Harker's Journal
Van Helsing sends a memo to Seward in which he states that he and Mina have reached Step Borgo.Esa night, Van Helsing fears for the life of mine and a surrounding ring of crushed wafers.
Van Helsing finds the graves of the three vampires and is paralyzed by the beauty of these. However, performing the necessary rituals to stop these. Finally, seal the doors of the castle hosts for the Count can not enter the same ever again.
There is a heavy snow and wolves howl. At sunset, seen from afar a large wagon driven by gypsies. The wagon is loaded with a box of earth. Mina and Van Helsing sighted Seward, Morris, Harker and Holmwood approaching gypsies. Gypsies try to defend the charge. Harker and Morris manage to be mounted to the wagon. Harker throws down box.
From a distance, look how Mina Dracula expression changes: first hate, then Triumph. Dracula dies and his body turns to dust. Morris is mortally wounded, but before dying notes that Mina gash on his forehead disappeared.
Mina Harker and had a son named Quincey. Both Seward and Holmwood are happily married.
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