Johnathan Harker is a businessman from London, England who is on a trip to Transylvania. Harker is the most dynamic character because he goes under the most change and he makes the reader feel many different emotions. Harker’s change starts from the beginning of the book all the way to the end. Harker starts off the book as relaxed as a normal businessman but this quickly changes. When Harker first steps off the train he is greeted by the locals who, once they learn that Harker is visiting Dracula, act very strange. These strange actions by the locals makes Harker feel strange and a little worried. When it came time for him to meet the carriage towards Dracula’s castle he became even more nervous and anxious. The carriage was very late to pick up Harker and it came …show more content…
Harker’s first impression of Dracula was that Dracula was a normal man but Harker soon realizes that he is incorrect. When Harker cuts himself while shaving Dracula leaps towards him but resists an urge to suck the blood. This yet again puts Harker in a state of nervousness. Dracula also tells Harker to send Mina a false message with a false date. All of these events make Harker change from an easy-going businessman to a person who is always paying attention and quick witted. Harker does many things that makes the reader interested and feel emotions. Harker makes the reader feel sympathy for him while he was stuck in Dracula’s castle. We, as the reader, feel sympathy for Harker because he is in a situation that he is most likely not going to get out of. However Harker does get out of Dracula’s castle which makes us feel happy for him. Harker is also admirable because of this accomplishment. He is admirable because he persisted through a tough situation. The character Johnathan Harker changed a lot throughout the book. When you partner this with the emotions he makes the reader feel Harker is the most dynamic
2. Explain how a character in the book changed or is starting to change in the part you are reading?
There is a classic "good versus evil" plot to this novel. The evil of course being Count Dracula and the Good being represented by the Harkers, Dr. Seward and Lucy, Arthur, Quincy and the Professor. It is the continuing battle between Dracula and the forces of good. Good in this case is the Christian God. The battle is foretold by the landlady where she says, "It is the eve of St Georges Day. Do you no know that tonight, when the clock strikes midnight, all the evil things in the world will have full sway?" and she hands Harker a crucifix (p 12).
Anyone who has ever seen one of the several adaptations of Dracula as a movie will know that it was intended to be a horror story. Stoker goes to great lengths in order to create an atmosphere of terror and villainy, while hinting at exciting things to come. Straight from the beginning of the book, foreshadowing is utilized to hint at horrifying future events. As Jonathan Harker was about to depart for Castle Dracula, an old lady accosted him and said, "It is the eve of St. George's Day. Do you not know that to-night when the clock strikes midnight, all the evil things in the world will have full sway?" (Stoker, 4). However Harker leaves anyway, despite the warning. Thus the reader is fully aware that something awful is going to happen to him. This quote makes one's mind think of possible future events, thus creating imagery. Every writer aspires to create good imagery, and Bram Stoker is particularly good at doing so.
Dracula begins with a diary entry from Jonathan Harker, a real estate agent from England. Mr. Harker is traveling to Transylvania, where he is to confirm a business deal between Count Dracula and his mentor Peter Hawkins. En route to Transylvania, Jonathan comes across many people who caution him about his trip and his host. They cower at the thought of him going into the land, and give him gifts of garlic and a crucifix. At the time, Mr. Harker is unaware of the severity of his troubles. Although these people are friendly and reach out to help Jonathan, it is not considered homosociality, since they do not form the tight, same-sex friendship that is required of the term. For Jonathan, these early helpers are simply companions on a train.
Have you ever met someone and realized they're not the person you thought they were at first? In the short story “Where Are You Going Where Have You Been” the audience is given an immaculate example of a shift in character. When Arnold Friend is first mentioned in the story he seems like a nice charming guy, but then his personality starts to go downhill. The reader is able to see this change in Friend due to Oates commanding use of characterization and underlying symbolism to reveal his true character.
The late nineteenth century Irish novelist, Bram Stoker is most famous for creating Dracula, one of the most popular and well-known vampire stories ever written. Dracula is a gothic, “horror novel about a vampire named Count Dracula who is looking to move from his native country of Transylvania to England” (Shmoop Editorial Team). Unbeknownst of Dracula’s plans, Jonathan Harker, a young English lawyer, traveled to Castle Dracula to help the count with his plans and talk to him about all his options. At first Jonathan was surprised by the Count’s knowledge, politeness, and overall hospitality. However, the longer Jonathan remained in the castle the more uneasy and suspicious he became as he began to realize just how strange and different Dracula was. As the story unfolded, Jonathan realized he is not just a guest, but a prisoner as well. The horror in the novel not only focuses on the “vampiric nature” (Soyokaze), but also on the fear and threat of female sexual expression and aggression in such a conservative Victorian society.
In Bram Stoker's "Dracula", Dracula is portrayed as a monster made evident by his gruesome actions. An analysis of Dracula shows that: shows his evil nature in his planning, brutally killing Lucy Westrenstra causing a violent response from Dr. Seward and others, and how his evil ways lead to his downfall. To characterize Dracula in one way, he is a ruthless, cunning monster who uses tricks, torture, and wits to manipulate people to his will. However when he trifled with some courageous people, he had no knowledge that it would be his undoing.
A transformation took place during the story and it is evident through the narrator?s character. In the beginning he was lacking in compassion, he was narrow minded, he was detached, he was jealous, and he was bitter. Carver used carefully chosen words to illustrate the narrator?s character and the change. Throughout the story his character undergoes a transformation into a more emotionally aware human being.
Stoker chooses to lay some clues out for the readers in order to help them interpret Dracula. The distinct warning presented on the page before the introduction saying the narrators wrote to the best of their knowledge the facts that they witnessed. Next is the chapter where Jonathan Harker openly questions the group’s interpretations of the unsettling events that occur from meeting Dracula, and the sanity of the whole. Several characters could be considered emotionally unstable. Senf suggests that Stoker made the central normal characters hunting Dracula ill-equipped to judge the extraordinary events with which they were faced. The central characters were made two dimensional and had no distinguishing characteristics other then the...
The main good characters in this book are Dr. Van Helsing, Jonathan Harker, Mina Murray and Lucy Westerna. What makes Jonathan Harker so good is that he will do almost anything to help stop Dracula. He is Mina Murray’s fiancée and a solicitor who became a prisoner of Dracula but finally ...
...gue of Vampirism. Stoker plays upon the irony of England, at this time one of, if not the largest, colonizing countries, being colonized, not by another country but by an intangible immigrant. Dracula’s intent is not of material wealth or power, but of controlling the people and using them as livestock. We can see this when Dracula tells Jonathan Harker that he “[has] come to know your great England, and to know her is to love her. I long to go through the crowded streets of your mighty London, to be in the midst of the whirl and rush of humanity, to share its life, its change, its death, and all that makes it what it is” (Stoker 19). Kane reaffirms this by contending that Dracula is an example of “invasion literature” acting upon the readers on England by playing with “a considerable variety of fears regarding the state of England and the English themselves” (9).
Throughout the book he tends to keep a calm demeanor until something does not go his way. “As I opened my eyes involuntarily I saw his strong hand grasp the slender neck of the fair woman of the fair woman and with giant’s power draw it back, the blue eyes transformed with fury, the white teeth champing with rage, and the fair cheeks blazing red with passion.” This was said by Harker. As I observed in the book Dracula has his way of weaning his way in and out. He does one act, and then leaves as it falls into play. Lucy is an example of Dracula’s plan falling in place. He bites her, and then she becomes and over sexualized vampire, all to the benefit of Dracula. But just like the other character in the book, when something does not go his way he can be just as insane as the other characters. He did not plan on Harker escaping his castle.to Dracula; the goals he has set in place for himself will be accomplished no matter what feelings get in the way of his
When Jonathan first discovers Dracula’s true nature, he is teeming with fear, as do many of the characters they encounter the true Dracula.
Stoker has rendered the reader to see the Count as physically strong and powerful, through Jonathan Harker and his confinement and Lucy Westenra and her failing health. Although the reader does not understand all the omniscient powers and control that Count Dracula possesses over people, they are brought to light through Dr Steward’s accounts of his patient R.M. Renfield. The ‘strange and sudden change’ (Stoker, 86), that has happened in Renfield evokes the reader to contemplate the Count’s influence over people. Dr Steward suggests it is as though a ‘religious mania has seized’ Renfield (Stoker, 87), and is controlling him. The reader is aware that Renfield can feel the Counts presence and that there is a connection between them. This eventually leads Van Helsing to recognize the bond between Mina Harker and the Count, which helps them to find Dracula and finally kill him. Dracula’s invasion over Renfield also reveals a weakness in the Counts power. Renfield, an obedient servant of Dracula, claims he is ‘here to do Your bidding, Master. I am Your slave’ (Stoker, 88). Renfield’s devotion is quickly reversed when he sees that the Count is taking life from Mina. It is his care for her that causes him to turn against Dracula and try to fight for her. Again Renfield’s actions mimic that of the other men as it becomes their goal to save Mina from the invasion running through her body. The key to this invasion is the blood.
The novel, Silas Marner written by George Elliot, narrates the remarkable, unexpected transformations of the protagonist Silas Marner. Once a betrayed, isolated outsider, Silas Marner is now happy and apart of the Raveloe community. He is currently a wondrous weaver with a loving heart. Though he is old, he has a refreshing and rising personality. He’s proven to be hard working, scholarly, and sensible. He has intentionally hurt anyone. He previously had to suffer but Silas Marner owes his gradually changes from a miserable loner in Raveloe, to happy man apart of the community to his dedicated and caring personality, and because of his love to Eppie.