Bram Stoker's Dracula is a gothic horror novel published in 1897. It follows Jonathan Harker's journey to Castle Dracula in Transylvania and his encounter with Count Dracula. The story is narrated through letters and diaries and shifts perspectives between characters including Harker, his fiancée Mina, and vampire hunter Dr. Van Helsing. They work together to hunt down and defeat the vampire Count Dracula to cleanse the evil preying upon people.

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