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As the novel progresses, Dracula is described as taking on a more and more youthful appearance. After Harker strikes him with a shovel, he is left with a scar on his forehead which he bears throughout the course of the novel.

American gentleman from Texas and the third suitor of Lucy. He sacrifices himself while fighting against Dracula with Van Helsing. Rubery, Matthew (2 March 2011). "Sensation Fiction". Oxford Bibliographies. Oxford University Press . Retrieved 17 January 2021.The natural environment of the mountains is part of 'the wildest and least known portions of Europe' , with uncontrolled 'bewildering masses of fruit blossom' and 'green sloping land' ( Dracula, chapter one) . The image of this wild natural landscape both appeals to and intimidates the reader, while the sights Harker sees must be glorious and beautiful, they also appear out of control, Foreshadowing the danger which awaits him. Stoker, Bram. "Chapter 20, Jonathan Harker's Journal, Letter, Mitchell, Sons, and Candy to Lord Godalming". Dracula (PDF). p.329. Stevenson, John Allen (1988). "A Vampire in the Mirror: The Sexuality of Dracula". PMLA. 103 (2): 139–149. doi: 10.2307/462430. ISSN 0030-8129. JSTOR 462430. S2CID 54868687. Tomaszweska, Monika (2004). "Vampirism and the Degeneration of the Imperial Race: Stoker's Dracula as the Invasive Degenerate Other" (PDF). Journal of Dracula Studies. 6. Archived (PDF) from the original on 15 November 2020. Some sources say the legal battle lasted only two, [133] while others give the number as three. [135] [136]

The novel is structured as a series of letters, diary entries, and newspaper articles, giving it an epistolary format.The focus on the female vampire’s lips - mentioned twice in this brief description - objectifies her and dehumanises her, as she is described not by her character but by her actions. Finally, Jonathan gives in to a 'languorous ecstasy', which represents a perceived sin - that of acting sexually, or being taken advantage of by the sinful and inherently evil vampire. Spencer, Kathleen L. (1992). "Purity and Danger: Dracula, the Urban Gothic, and the Late Victorian Degeneracy Crisis". ELH. 59 (1): 197–225. doi: 10.2307/2873424. ISSN 0013-8304. JSTOR 2873424. Review: Dracula". Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art. London. 3 July 1897. p.21.

Masters, Anthony (1972). The Natural History of the Vampire. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. ISBN 9780399109317.Review of PLTA, "Recent Novels" 1897; Lloyd's 1897, p.80; The Academy 1897, p.98; The Glasgow Herald 1897, p.10.

Tokat 's castle has few claims to fame. One is Vlad was reputedly imprisoned here after turning on the Ottomans in his later life. Though usually portrayed as having a strong Eastern European accent, the original novel only specifies that his spoken English is excellent, though strangely toned.Irish folklore has been suggested as a possible influence on Stoker. Bob Curran, a lecturer in Celtic History and Folklore at the University of Ulster, Coleraine, suggests that Stoker may have drawn some inspiration for Dracula from an Irish vampire, Abhartach. [33] [34] Textual history Stoker's handwritten notes about the novel's characters Composition Later interpretations of the character, and vampires in general, would amplify this trait into an outright fatal weakness, making it so that even the first rays of sunrise are capable of reducing a vampire to ash. [ citation needed] Ludlam 1962, p.100: "Bram sought the help of Arminius Vambery in Budapest [...] Vambery was able to report that 'the Impaler,' who had won this name for obvious reasons, was spoken of for centuries after as the cleverest and the most cunning, as well as the bravest of the sons of the 'land beyond the forest.'" Because of the many strange and supernatural events which take place in the novel, characters often question whether they might be going mad and imagining things. When Harker reunites with Mina after escaping from Dracula’s Castle, he does not know whether or not he can trust his memories: “I do not know if it was all real or the dreaming of a madman.” The character of Renfield, an inmate in Dr. Seward’s asylum, further reinforces how madness can make it difficult to see Dracula’s evil schemes at play. When Seward overhears Renfield saying “I shall be patient, Master. It is coming—coming—coming,” Seward assumes the man is raving mad, when Renfield is actually speaking with Dracula and foreshadowing the dangers to come. Seward even doubts his own ability to think logically, wondering “if my long habit of life amongst the insane is beginning to tell upon my own brain.” Confronted with an evil that seems impossible to understand, characters find it easier to believe they might be going insane and that their problems are entirely internal. Fear of Outsiders Dracula is commonly depicted with a bloodlust which he is seemingly unable to control. Adaptations sometimes call this uncontrollable state 'the thirst'.