1. Book presentation
Bram Stokers Dracula
Presentation by Petras Zibolis
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2. 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

3. • Dracula is a gothic
horror novel
• Story is narrated
through letters and
diaries of main
characters
• Point of view shifts
among several
characters

4. Plot summary
• Jonathan Harker • Harker and Mina
travels to Castle return to England
Dracula in to join forces with
Transylvania others
• In England Harkers • Hunting down the
fiancee Mina visits vampire
her friend Lucy
• Harker reapears in
Buda-pest
• Van helsing arrives

5. Characters
• Van Helsing • Count Dracula
• John Harker • Renfield
• Dr. John Seward
• Arthur Holmwood
• Quincey Morris
• Mina Murray
• Lucy Westenra

6. Conflict
• A vampire with
diabolical ambition
preys upon people
• Until main
characters
dedicate
themselves to
cleansing this evil

7. Symbols
• Christian icons
• Dracula depicted
as devil
• The Czarina
Catherine
(promiscuity)

8. The title
• It’s the name of the
powerful Dracula
• His name means
“junior dragon” or
“little devil” in
Romanian