Book presentationBram Stokers Dracula

Book presentationBram Stokers Dracula

Presentation by Petras ZibolisVVEK TAK 2k

Bram Stoker• Bram Stoker was born in

Dublin, Ireland, in 1847• Studied math at Trinity

College and graduated in 1867

• Stoker married an aspiring actress, Florence Balcombe

• Stoker died in 1912• Dracula based on Vlad the

Impaler

• Dracula is a gothic horror novel

• Story is narrated through letters and diaries of main characters

• Point of view shifts among several characters

Plot summary

• Jonathan Harker travels to Castle Dracula in Transylvania

• In England Harkers fiancee Mina visits her friend Lucy

• Harker reapears in Buda-pest

• Van helsing arrives

• Harker and Mina return to England to join forces with others

• Hunting down the vampire

Characters

• Van Helsing• John Harker • Dr. John Seward• Arthur Holmwood• Quincey Morris• Mina Murray• Lucy Westenra

• Count Dracula• Renfield

Conflict

• A vampire with diabolical ambition preys upon people

• Until main characters dedicate themselves to cleansing this evil

Symbols

• Christian icons• Dracula depicted

as devil• The Czarina

Catherine (promiscuity)

The title

• It’s the name of the powerful Dracula

• His name means “junior dragon” or “little devil” in Romanian