1. UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL MAYOR DE
SAN MARCOS
SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
TEACHER: YONNY CARDENAS CORNELIO
STUDENT: FELIX SATALAYA ISUIZA
COURSE: AMERICAN LITERATURE
TOPIC: DRACULA

2. DRACULA

3. BIOGRAPHY
 Stoker was born on 8 November 1847 at 15 Marino
Crescent, Clontarf, on the northside of Dublin, Ireland.
 His parents were Abraham Stoker, from Dublin, and Charlotte
EARLY Mathilda Blake Thornley who came from Ballyshannon, County
Donegal.
LIFE  He was the third of seven children.
 Stoker was bed-ridden until he started school at the age of
seven, when he made a complete recovery.
 After his recovery, he grew up without further major health
issues, even excelling as an athlete at Trinity College, Dublin.

4. BIOGRAPHY
 Stoker became interested in the theatre while a student through a
friend, Dr. Maunsell.
 He became the theatre critic for the Dublin Evening Mail, co-owned
EARLY by the author of Gothic tales Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu.
CAREER  Stoker also wrote stories, and in 1872 "The Crystal Cup" was
published by the London Society, followed by "The Chain of Destiny"
in four parts in The Shamrock.
 In 1876, while a civil servant in Dublin, Stoker wrote a non-fiction
book (The Duties of Clerks of Petty Sessions in Ireland, published
1879), which remained a standard work

5. BIOGRAPHY
 After suffering a number of strokes, Stoker died at No. 26 St
George's Square in 1912.Some biographers attribute the
cause of death to tertiary syphilis. He was cremated, and his
DEATH ashes placed in a display urn at Golders Green Crematorium.
After Irving Noel Stoker's death in 1961, his ashes were added
to that urn. The original plan had been to keep his parents'
ashes together, but after Florence Stoker's death her ashes
were scattered at the Gardens of Rest. To visit his remains at
Golders Green, visitors must be escorted to the room the urn
is housed in, for fear of vandalism.

6. WORK
 The Primrose Path (1875)
 The Snake's Pass (1890)
 The Watter's Mou' (1895)
 The Shoulder of Shasta (1895)
NOVELS  Dracula (1897)
 Miss Betty (1898)
 The Mystery of the Sea (1902)
 The Jewel of Seven Stars (1903)
 The Man (aka: The Gates of Life) (1905)
 Lady Athlyne (1908)
 The Lady of the Shroud (1909)
 The Lair of the White Worm (aka: The Garden of Evil)
(1911)

7. WORK
 "The Bridal of Death" (alternate ending to The Jewel of
Seven Stars)
 "Buried Treasures"
 "The Chain of Destiny"
STORIES  "The Crystal Cup"
 "The Dualitists; or, The Death Doom of the Double Born"
 "Lord Castleton Explains"
 "The Gombeen Man"
 "In the Valley of the Shadow"
 "The Man from Shorrox"
 "Midnight Tales"
 "The Red Stockade"
 "The Seer"

8. DRACULA
Jonathan Harker, a young London solicitor (a lawyer) travels to Transylvania
(modern-day Romania) to help a rich nobleman, Count Dracula, purchase an
estate in England. Dracula is planning to immigrate to England, and wants Harker
to help him hammer out all the legal details. Harker is at first impressed by
Dracula's suave politeness, but is soon creeped out by the Count's uncanny ability
to communicate with wolves and by the lack of servants (or anyone else) in the
Count's huge castle. Soon after, Harker realizes that he's a prisoner in the castle.
One evening, he tries to find an escape route – only to be discovered and almost
seduced/devoured by three sexy vampire ladies (the brides of Dracula). Dracula
rescues him at the last minute, and Harker realizes that Dracula is only keeping
him alive to finish the real estate transaction. Harker decides to make a break for
it and only barely escapes from the castle alive. He's not able to head straight
back to England, though. He comes down with a severe case of brain fever
because of the shock and spends many weeks recuperating in a convent in the
countryside in Hungary.

9. Meanwhile, back in England, Harker's fiancée, Mina, is hanging out with
her best friend Lucy in a seaside town. Mina's worried about Jonathan and
wonders why she hasn't heard from him in so long, but Lucy can only think
about her own suitors. She gets three marriage proposals in the same day
by three friends: Dr. John Seward, a doctor who runs a mental hospital;
Quincey Morris, an American; and Arthur Holmwood, the son of Lord
Godalming (an English gentleman). She accepts Arthur Holmwood. Even
though Quincey Morris and Dr. Seward are disappointed, they still stay
friends with Arthur.
Meanwhile, Dracula has arrived in England, but hasn't shown himself yet. A
patient in Dr. Seward's hospital, Renfield, continually captures and eats
insects, spiders, and birds and says that the "Master" is coming soon. Lucy
starts acting weird – she seems to be losing blood, but no one knows
where the blood's going. Her fiancé, Lord Arthur Holmwood, gets
worried, and Jack Seward sends for his friend and mentor, Van Helsing, to
check her out.

10.  Van Helsing realizes that there's a vampire involved. He's a scientist
and doctor, but he's also well versed in ancient superstitions and
philosophy, so he knows what to do to kill vampires. Even after giving
her multiple blood transfusions, they're not able to save Lucy, and she
dies. But Van Helsing knows she's not really dead. The four men break
into her tomb and catch vampire Lucy coming back from a foray in the
neighboring village. They stab her in the heart and cut off her head to
make sure she's really dead, and not just mostly dead.
Mina finally hears from Jonathan and goes to Budapest to pick him
up. They get married at the convent where he's been recovering from
his illness, and come back to England. Harker, Van
Helsing, Seward, Morris, and Holmwood all swear to get rid of
Dracula once and for all.

11. Mina has to hide in Dr. Seward's office at the hospital while the men
go vampire hunting. Unfortunately, Renfield knows about Dracula and
invites him into the building (vampires can't enter unless they've been
invited, so don't go inviting any vampires into your homes), and he
starts drinking Mina's blood. The men come back in time to find her
being force-fed some of Dracula's blood.
The case is now extremely urgent – if they don't catch and kill Dracula
quickly, Mina will turn into a vampire, like Lucy. Dracula leads them on
a spectacular chase back to Transylvania, where they finally catch up
to him and kill him. Mina is saved, and they all live happily ever after.
Except for Quincey Morris, who gets stabbed during the final fight.

12. CHARACTERS
 Count Dracula
 Mina Murray Harker
 Jonathan harker
 Lucy westenra
 Dr. Seward
 Dr. Val Helsing
 Arthur Holmwood
 Quincey Morris

13. THEMES
TECHNOLOGY AND MODERNIZATION
Bram seems to have been obsessed with the latest
technologies. He makes a big point of having his characters
use really up-to-date (for 1897) gadgets for communication
– Jack Seward, for example, records his diary on a
phonograph, which is an early recording device. All the high-
tech gadgets contrast strongly with the superstitions and
ancient traditions surrounding Dracula himself.

14. THEMES
SEX
Most of the characters in Dracula are simultaneously attracted to and
repulsed by the idea of having their blood sucked. Most of them are
able to repress that desire most of the time, although they
acknowledge the desire later in their journals. There aren't any actual
sex scenes in the novel, but the blood-sucking scenes are close
enough: they're described in terms of illicit desire and sexual
repression.

15. PASSIVITY
In the world of Dracula, being passive can get you into a
lot of trouble. If you think something is fishy, or you aren't
feeling quite right, you'd better say something. Staying
quiet, or assuming that everything is going to be fine, will
only get you bitten by a vampire. Take Jonathan Harker, for
example, who ignores all the superstitious advice he's
given on his way to Castle Dracula. He also ignores
Dracula's advice to stay in his end of the castle, and falls
asleep in a room where the Brides of Dracula could attack
him.

16. GOOD VS EVIL
The vampire Dracula is pretty unambiguously evil. The
members of the Crew of Light, the group dedicated to
destroying Dracula, are unambiguously good.