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The novel Dracula, written by Bram Stoker was one of the most hair-raising, spine-chilling, blood curdling novels I have ever read. It is a gothic novel which mean it carries mystery, suspense and horror through the atmosphere of the book. The four major themes under the gothic novel are good vs evil, marriage, the nature of friendship and science vs religion. Most of the themes, when presented in the book, have a high or overwrought emotion to help convey some passion to the plot. The book also lugs supernatural and inexplicable events. After I made my way through the first few chapters, I had no choice but to read the rest of the book in the daylight because of all the detailed, creepy content Bram created. For example, at the end of chapter three Jonathan was presented with three lady vampires who were hungary, “Are we to have nothing tonight”, one said, “ with a low laugh, as she pointed to the bag which he had thrown upon the floor, and which moved as though there was some living thing within it....if my ears …show more content…

Jonathan is going to help Count with a the legal details and while helping him he is journaling his experience. Once he arrives, he become skities because many of the locals act fearful to him after learning of his destination. He decided to continue and comes across some odd encounters on the way. He soon arrives at the creepy castle and has many questions like how count can somehow control wolves, why there are no servants, better yet why there is nobody in the castle at all. He then comes to realize that he is a prisoner in his castle. Jonathan goes exploring to possible find somewhere to escape and then runs into three more lady vampires who almost kill him. Count come at the last minute and saves him. This only makes him realise that count is using him for legal details and will kill him when he is

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