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345 | false | shmoop | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/43.txt | finished_summaries/shmoop/Dracula/section_15_part_0.txt | Dracula.chapter 16 | chapter 16 | null | {"name": "Chapter 16", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201219141110/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/dracula/summary/chapter-16", "summary": "They get to the tomb and open the coffin. It's empty. Van Helsing tells Arthur and Quincey that they've opened it twice before--the first time it was empty, t... |
It was just a quarter before twelve o'clock when we got into the
churchyard over the low wall. The night was dark with occasional gleams
of moonlight between the rents of the heavy clouds that scudded across
the sky. We all kept somehow close together, with Van Helsing slightly
in front as he led the way. When we had... | 4,222 | Chapter 16 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201219141110/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/dracula/summary/chapter-16 | They get to the tomb and open the coffin. It's empty. Van Helsing tells Arthur and Quincey that they've opened it twice before--the first time it was empty, the second Lucy was there, looking intact . They go back outside and wait. Van Helsing puts a communion wafer in the door of the tomb so that vampire Lucy won't be... | null | 435 | 1 |
345 | false | shmoop | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/44.txt | finished_summaries/shmoop/Dracula/section_16_part_0.txt | Dracula.chapter 17 | chapter 17 | null | {"name": "Chapter 17", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201219141110/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/dracula/summary/chapter-17", "summary": "Mina and Jonathan are on their way to Dr. Seward's house . Van Helsing gives Dr. Seward a copy of Mina and Jonathan's journals to read before the couple arriv... |
When we arrived at the Berkeley Hotel, Van Helsing found a telegram
waiting for him:--
"Am coming up by train. Jonathan at Whitby. Important news.--MINA
HARKER."
The Professor was delighted. "Ah, that wonderful Madam Mina," he said,
"pearl among women! She arrive, but I cannot stay. She must go to your
ho... | 5,422 | Chapter 17 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201219141110/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/dracula/summary/chapter-17 | Mina and Jonathan are on their way to Dr. Seward's house . Van Helsing gives Dr. Seward a copy of Mina and Jonathan's journals to read before the couple arrives. When Mina gets there, she sees Dr. Seward making a diary entry on his phonograph . She gets all excited and asks to hear it say something--perhaps something a... | null | 424 | 1 |
345 | false | shmoop | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/45.txt | finished_summaries/shmoop/Dracula/section_17_part_0.txt | Dracula.chapter 18 | chapter 18 | null | {"name": "Chapter 18", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201219141110/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/dracula/summary/chapter-18", "summary": "Mina asks to see Renfield, and Dr. Seward allows it. Renfield is very polite to her. He advises her not to stay in Dr. Seward's house during her visit to Lond... |
_30 September._--I got home at five o'clock, and found that Godalming
and Morris had not only arrived, but had already studied the transcript
of the various diaries and letters which Harker and his wonderful wife
had made and arranged. Harker had not yet returned from his visit to the
carriers' men, of whom Dr. Henne... | 6,359 | Chapter 18 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201219141110/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/dracula/summary/chapter-18 | Mina asks to see Renfield, and Dr. Seward allows it. Renfield is very polite to her. He advises her not to stay in Dr. Seward's house during her visit to London, but won't tell her why. Afterwards, Van Helsing joins them again. He thinks "Madam Mina" is the awesomest woman in the world. He even compliments her so far a... | null | 357 | 1 |
345 | false | shmoop | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/46.txt | finished_summaries/shmoop/Dracula/section_18_part_0.txt | Dracula.chapter 19 | chapter 19 | null | {"name": "Chapter 19", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201219141110/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/dracula/summary/chapter-19", "summary": "Quincey and Van Helsing ask why Seward didn't allow Renfield to go, and Seward says he was afraid Renfield wanted to go help Dracula somehow. They use a skele... |
_1 October, 5 a. m._--I went with the party to the search with an easy
mind, for I think I never saw Mina so absolutely strong and well. I am
so glad that she consented to hold back and let us men do the work.
Somehow, it was a dread to me that she was in this fearful business at
all; but now that her work is done, an... | 5,301 | Chapter 19 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201219141110/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/dracula/summary/chapter-19 | Quincey and Van Helsing ask why Seward didn't allow Renfield to go, and Seward says he was afraid Renfield wanted to go help Dracula somehow. They use a skeleton key to get into Carfax. Van Helsing hands out crucifixes and pieces of blessed communion wafers. They go into the chapel to check things out. Dracula hasn't c... | null | 364 | 1 |
345 | false | shmoop | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/47.txt | finished_summaries/shmoop/Dracula/section_19_part_0.txt | Dracula.chapter 20 | chapter 20 | null | {"name": "Chapter 20", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201219141110/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/dracula/summary/chapter-20", "summary": "Jonathan goes to visit one of the two delivery guys who picked up boxes from Carfax the day Renfield attacked them. After paying the guy some money as a bribe... |
_1 October, evening._--I found Thomas Snelling in his house at Bethnal
Green, but unhappily he was not in a condition to remember anything. The
very prospect of beer which my expected coming had opened to him had
proved too much, and he had begun too early on his expected debauch. I
learned, however, from his wife, wh... | 5,531 | Chapter 20 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201219141110/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/dracula/summary/chapter-20 | Jonathan goes to visit one of the two delivery guys who picked up boxes from Carfax the day Renfield attacked them. After paying the guy some money as a bribe, Jonathan learns how many boxes they picked up and moved. They moved nine boxes to a house in Piccadilly . The house was recently sold, and Jonathan asks the law... | null | 298 | 1 |
345 | false | shmoop | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/48.txt | finished_summaries/shmoop/Dracula/section_20_part_0.txt | Dracula.chapter 21 | chapter 21 | null | {"name": "Chapter 21", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201219141110/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/dracula/summary/chapter-21", "summary": "When Dr. Seward gets to Renfield's room, he finds the patient lying in a puddle of blood. Renfield looks like his face got smashed up and his back is broken. ... |
_3 October._--Let me put down with exactness all that happened, as well
as I can remember it, since last I made an entry. Not a detail that I
can recall must be forgotten; in all calmness I must proceed.
When I came to Renfield's room I found him lying on the floor on his
left side in a glittering pool of blood. Whe... | 5,685 | Chapter 21 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201219141110/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/dracula/summary/chapter-21 | When Dr. Seward gets to Renfield's room, he finds the patient lying in a puddle of blood. Renfield looks like his face got smashed up and his back is broken. Dr. Seward sends for Van Helsing, who comes at once, bringing his surgical case. Renfield's skull is fractured, so they want to "trephine" to relieve the pressure... | null | 362 | 1 |
345 | false | shmoop | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/49.txt | finished_summaries/shmoop/Dracula/section_21_part_0.txt | Dracula.chapter 22 | chapter 22 | null | {"name": "Chapter 22", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201219141110/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/dracula/summary/chapter-22", "summary": "Jonathan is obviously upset about Mina, and writes in his journal to keep from going crazy. After going over what happened to Renfield to make sure that every... |
_3 October._--As I must do something or go mad, I write this diary. It
is now six o'clock, and we are to meet in the study in half an hour and
take something to eat; for Dr. Van Helsing and Dr. Seward are agreed
that if we do not eat we cannot work our best. Our best will be, God
knows, required to-day. I must keep w... | 5,058 | Chapter 22 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201219141110/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/dracula/summary/chapter-22 | Jonathan is obviously upset about Mina, and writes in his journal to keep from going crazy. After going over what happened to Renfield to make sure that everyone was up to speed , they start discussing Mina's condition. Mina is going to be kept in the loop again. She says that if she feels herself getting vampire-y, sh... | null | 396 | 1 |
345 | false | shmoop | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/50.txt | finished_summaries/shmoop/Dracula/section_22_part_0.txt | Dracula.chapter 23 | chapter 23 | null | {"name": "Chapter 23", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201219141110/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/dracula/summary/chapter-23", "summary": "Dr. Seward notes that Jonathan's brown hair has turned white overnight from the shock of what happened to Mina. Van Helsing, meanwhile, has been studying up o... |
_3 October._--The time seemed terrible long whilst we were waiting for
the coming of Godalming and Quincey Morris. The Professor tried to keep
our minds active by using them all the time. I could see his beneficent
purpose, by the side glances which he threw from time to time at Harker.
The poor fellow is overwhelmed... | 5,271 | Chapter 23 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201219141110/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/dracula/summary/chapter-23 | Dr. Seward notes that Jonathan's brown hair has turned white overnight from the shock of what happened to Mina. Van Helsing, meanwhile, has been studying up on Dracula's life--his real life, hundreds of years ago. Apparently, our undead friend was quite the scholar in his day. But, Van Helsing insists, his brain stoppe... | null | 393 | 1 |
345 | false | shmoop | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/51.txt | finished_summaries/shmoop/Dracula/section_23_part_0.txt | Dracula.chapter 24 | chapter 24 | null | {"name": "Chapter 24", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201219141110/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/dracula/summary/chapter-24", "summary": "Van Helsing leaves a message for Jonathan on Dr. Seward's phonograph that he should stay with \"Madam Mina\" to protect her while the rest of them go after Dr... |
This to Jonathan Harker.
You are to stay with your dear Madam Mina. We shall go to make our
search--if I can call it so, for it is not search but knowing, and we
seek confirmation only. But do you stay and take care of her to-day.
This is your best and most holiest office. This day nothing can find him
here. Let me t... | 6,020 | Chapter 24 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201219141110/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/dracula/summary/chapter-24 | Van Helsing leaves a message for Jonathan on Dr. Seward's phonograph that he should stay with "Madam Mina" to protect her while the rest of them go after Dracula. Mina is relieved to hear that Dracula has left the country. Jonathan and Mina work hard to keep from thinking about the future: They read and reread the jour... | null | 398 | 1 |
345 | false | shmoop | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/52.txt | finished_summaries/shmoop/Dracula/section_24_part_0.txt | Dracula.chapter 25 | chapter 25 | null | {"name": "Chapter 25", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201219141110/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/dracula/summary/chapter-25", "summary": "That evening, Mina calls them all together around sunset . She asks them to promise that they'll kill her if she gets vampire-y. They all promise, even Jonath... |
_11 October, Evening._--Jonathan Harker has asked me to note this, as he
says he is hardly equal to the task, and he wants an exact record kept.
I think that none of us were surprised when we were asked to see Mrs.
Harker a little before the time of sunset. We have of late come to
understand that sunrise and sunset a... | 6,050 | Chapter 25 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201219141110/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/dracula/summary/chapter-25 | That evening, Mina calls them all together around sunset . She asks them to promise that they'll kill her if she gets vampire-y. They all promise, even Jonathan. Then she asks them to read the burial service to her, in case she's too vampire-y in the future to have it read at her funeral. Jonathan reads it, and everyon... | null | 387 | 1 |
345 | false | shmoop | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/53.txt | finished_summaries/shmoop/Dracula/section_25_part_0.txt | Dracula.chapter 26 | chapter 26 | null | {"name": "Chapter 26", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201219141110/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/dracula/summary/chapter-26", "summary": "That morning when Van Helsing hypnotizes Mina, she doesn't hear waves, just oars dipping in water and men calling to each other. Then she says that Dracula ha... |
_29 October._--This is written in the train from Varna to Galatz. Last
night we all assembled a little before the time of sunset. Each of us
had done his work as well as he could; so far as thought, and endeavour,
and opportunity go, we are prepared for the whole of our journey, and
for our work when we get to Galatz... | 7,004 | Chapter 26 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201219141110/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/dracula/summary/chapter-26 | That morning when Van Helsing hypnotizes Mina, she doesn't hear waves, just oars dipping in water and men calling to each other. Then she says that Dracula has gotten out of his box of dirt--but he's still on the boat, not on shore. While hypnotized, Mina says that Dracula is back on some kind of boat, but that's all s... | null | 576 | 1 |
345 | false | shmoop | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/54.txt | finished_summaries/shmoop/Dracula/section_26_part_0.txt | Dracula.chapter 27 | chapter 27 | null | {"name": "Chapter 27", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201219141110/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/dracula/summary/chapter-27", "summary": "Mina says that they're traveling quickly. She loves what she sees of the countryside and its people. She notices how superstitious they all are. Mina takes a ... |
_1 November._--All day long we have travelled, and at a good speed. The
horses seem to know that they are being kindly treated, for they go
willingly their full stage at best speed. We have now had so many
changes and find the same thing so constantly that we are encouraged to
think that the journey will be an easy on... | 7,123 | Chapter 27 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201219141110/https://www.shmoop.com/study-guides/literature/dracula/summary/chapter-27 | Mina says that they're traveling quickly. She loves what she sees of the countryside and its people. She notices how superstitious they all are. Mina takes a turn driving the carriage so that Van Helsing can sleep a bit. They'll reach the Borgo Pass by morning. Van Helsing is worried about Mina. She seems lethargic and... | null | 675 | 1 |
345 | false | cliffnotes | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/28.txt | finished_summaries/cliffnotes/Dracula/section_0_part_0.txt | Dracula.chapter 1 | chapter 1 | null | {"name": "Chapter 1", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201112034547/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/d/dracula/summary-and-analysis/chapter-1", "summary": "This novel is not told in a straightforward, chronological, omniscient manner, like many nineteenth-century novels. Instead, it is composed of a collage ... |
_3 May. Bistritz._--Left Munich at 8:35 P. M., on 1st May, arriving at
Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6:46, but train was an
hour late. Buda-Pesth seems a wonderful place, from the glimpse which I
got of it from the train and the little I could walk through the
streets. I feared to go very far from ... | 5,306 | Chapter 1 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201112034547/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/d/dracula/summary-and-analysis/chapter-1 | This novel is not told in a straightforward, chronological, omniscient manner, like many nineteenth-century novels. Instead, it is composed of a collage of letters, journal entries and diary jottings, in addition to a portion of a ship's log, various newspaper clippings, and even a "phonograph diary." Since the story i... | From what we read in Harker's journal, it is clear that the young lawyer is a very logical, organized sort of man. Clearly, Stoker is setting up his protagonist as a very rational individual; in this way, the horror of the melodrama which will occur later will be encountered by a man who will try to combat it with comm... | 979 | 430 |
345 | true | cliffnotes | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/chapters_2_to_4.txt | finished_summaries/cliffnotes/Dracula/section_1_part_0.txt | Dracula.chapters 2-4 | chapters 2-4 | null | {"name": "Chapters 2-4", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201112034547/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/d/dracula/summary-and-analysis/chapters-24", "summary": "Dracula's castle is described, like almost everything else, in precise detail. Harker notes the castle's great round arches, the immense iron-studde... |
_5 May._--I must have been asleep, for certainly if I had been fully
awake I must have noticed the approach of such a remarkable place. In
the gloom the courtyard looked of considerable size, and as several dark
ways led from it under great round arches, it perhaps seemed bigger than
it really is. I have not yet been... | 16,366 | Chapters 2-4 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201112034547/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/d/dracula/summary-and-analysis/chapters-24 | Dracula's castle is described, like almost everything else, in precise detail. Harker notes the castle's great round arches, the immense iron-studded stone doors, the rattling chains, and the clanking of massive bolts, and he compares the scene with a nightmare. Dracula himself is as mysterious as his castle is. He is ... | These three chapters set the tone for all subsequent treatments of the Dracula legend. That is, whereas many works based on Count Dracula will alter the story significantly, most of the subsequent treatments of this legend will have some of the incidents found in these chapters. They include an emissary who is in a f... | 1,980 | 452 |
345 | true | cliffnotes | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/chapters_5_to_6.txt | finished_summaries/cliffnotes/Dracula/section_2_part_0.txt | Dracula.chapters 5-6 | chapters 5-6 | null | {"name": "Chapters 5-6", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201112034547/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/d/dracula/summary-and-analysis/chapters-56", "summary": "The scene abruptly shifts from Transylvania to London, and the story of Mina Murray and Lucy Westenra is introduced. The story in the following few ... |
"_9 May._
"My dearest Lucy,--
"Forgive my long delay in writing, but I have been simply overwhelmed
with work. The life of an assistant schoolmistress is sometimes trying.
I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together
freely and build our castles in the air. I have been working very hard
l... | 8,882 | Chapters 5-6 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201112034547/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/d/dracula/summary-and-analysis/chapters-56 | The scene abruptly shifts from Transylvania to London, and the story of Mina Murray and Lucy Westenra is introduced. The story in the following few chapters is presented through a series of letters between Mina Murray and Lucy Westenra, and also through journal entries of various characters, as well as by newspaper art... | Stoker continues with his epistolary style, continuing in the tradition of having two young, naive ladies corresponding about love and life. These innocent girls will very soon become involved in the horror which Dracula brings. Stoker contrasts their innocence with the approaching plague of horror and evil, a typicall... | 1,513 | 327 |
345 | true | cliffnotes | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/chapters_7_to_8.txt | finished_summaries/cliffnotes/Dracula/section_3_part_0.txt | Dracula.chapters 7-8 | chapters 7-8 | null | {"name": "Chapters 7-8", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201112034547/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/d/dracula/summary-and-analysis/chapters-78", "summary": "Utilizing the narrative device of a newspaper clipping , the story of the landing of Count Dracula's ship is presented. The report indicates that th... |
From a Correspondent.
_Whitby_.
One of the greatest and suddenest storms on record has just been
experienced here, with results both strange and unique. The weather had
been somewhat sultry, but not to any degree uncommon in the month of
August. Saturday evening was as fine as was ever known, and the great
body of h... | 11,969 | Chapters 7-8 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201112034547/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/d/dracula/summary-and-analysis/chapters-78 | Utilizing the narrative device of a newspaper clipping , the story of the landing of Count Dracula's ship is presented. The report indicates that the recent storm, one of the worst storms on record, was responsible for the shipwreck of a strange Russian vessel. The article also mentions several observations which indic... | Once again Stoker relies on clever stylistic devices to add verisimilitude to his story. By using newspaper clippings, the ship's log, the medical journal, excerpts from telegrams and diaries, he builds a cumulative picture of events as though they might really have happened and, thus, he gives greater credence to this... | 2,075 | 598 |
345 | true | cliffnotes | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/chapters_9_to_10.txt | finished_summaries/cliffnotes/Dracula/section_4_part_0.txt | Dracula.chapters 9-10 | chapters 9-10 | null | {"name": "Chapters 9-10", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201112034547/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/d/dracula/summary-and-analysis/chapters-910", "summary": "In a letter from Budapest, Mina tells Lucy that she has arrived safely and that she has found Jonathan Harker greatly changed. He is only a shadow... |
"My dearest Lucy,--
"I know you will be anxious to hear all that has happened since we
parted at the railway station at Whitby. Well, my dear, I got to Hull
all right, and caught the boat to Hamburg, and then the train on here. I
feel that I can hardly recall anything of the journey, except that I
knew I was coming t... | 11,229 | Chapters 9-10 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201112034547/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/d/dracula/summary-and-analysis/chapters-910 | In a letter from Budapest, Mina tells Lucy that she has arrived safely and that she has found Jonathan Harker greatly changed. He is only a shadow of his former self, and he remembers very little of what has happened to him; he suffered a terrible shock, and his brain has a mental block against whatever caused his pres... | Jonathan Harker's journal ended on the 30th of June, and it is still with him in the hospital, sealed and to be opened and transcribed later by Mina. The entire novel, then, is, to a large degree, held together by Harker's journal, and his observations become instrumental in resolving the mystery of Dracula. Throughout... | 1,609 | 338 |
345 | true | cliffnotes | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/chapters_11_to_13.txt | finished_summaries/cliffnotes/Dracula/section_5_part_0.txt | Dracula.chapters 11-13 | chapters 11-13 | null | {"name": "Chapters 11-13", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201112034547/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/d/dracula/summary-and-analysis/chapters-1113", "summary": "On the 12th of September, Lucy is perplexed by the presence of the garlic flowers, but she has such trust in Van Helsing that she is not frighte... |
_12 September._--How good they all are to me. I quite love that dear Dr.
Van Helsing. I wonder why he was so anxious about these flowers. He
positively frightened me, he was so fierce. And yet he must have been
right, for I feel comfort from them already. Somehow, I do not dread
being alone to-night, and I can go to s... | 17,748 | Chapters 11-13 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201112034547/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/d/dracula/summary-and-analysis/chapters-1113 | On the 12th of September, Lucy is perplexed by the presence of the garlic flowers, but she has such trust in Van Helsing that she is not frightened to fall asleep that night. In Dr. Seward's diary, we learn that he picked up Van Helsing and went to see Lucy the next day. They met Mrs. Westenra in the hall and discovere... | These chapters include some of the more traditional treatments for handling or warding off the presence of vampires. Van Helsing, who is the only one knowledgeable about demonology and in particular about vampire lore, sends for garlic and hangs Lucy's entire room, especially the windows, with it; then he makes a wreat... | 1,956 | 504 |
345 | true | cliffnotes | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/chapters_14_to_16.txt | finished_summaries/cliffnotes/Dracula/section_6_part_0.txt | Dracula.chapters 14-16 | chapters 14-16 | null | {"name": "Chapters 14-16", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201112034547/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/d/dracula/summary-and-analysis/chapters-1416", "summary": "Mina decides to transcribe the journal which Jonathan kept at the Castle Dracula in Transylvania. On the 24th of September, she receives a lette... |
_23 September_.--Jonathan is better after a bad night. I am so glad that
he has plenty of work to do, for that keeps his mind off the terrible
things; and oh, I am rejoiced that he is not now weighed down with the
responsibility of his new position. I knew he would be true to himself,
and now how proud I am to see my ... | 15,581 | Chapters 14-16 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201112034547/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/d/dracula/summary-and-analysis/chapters-1416 | Mina decides to transcribe the journal which Jonathan kept at the Castle Dracula in Transylvania. On the 24th of September, she receives a letter from Dr. Van Helsing asking her if he may discuss Lucy's illness with her. Mina agrees to see him and, that day, Van Helsing arrives. This is the first time that Mina has met... | In these chapters, even though we have heard earlier that Jonathan Harker's journal was to be sealed as a bond of faith between Jonathan and Mina, we now discover that Mina has not only read it but transcribed it because Dr. Van Helsing thinks that something in it might provide a clue about the mystery of Lucy's death.... | 1,351 | 360 |
345 | true | cliffnotes | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/chapters_17_to_19.txt | finished_summaries/cliffnotes/Dracula/section_7_part_0.txt | Dracula.chapters 17-19 | chapters 17-19 | null | {"name": "Chapters 17-19", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201112034547/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/d/dracula/summary-and-analysis/chapters-1719", "summary": "Dr. Seward's diary continues sometime later, and he details for us his first meeting with Mina Harker. Mina, he says, will travel with Seward to... |
When we arrived at the Berkeley Hotel, Van Helsing found a telegram
waiting for him:--
"Am coming up by train. Jonathan at Whitby. Important news.--MINA
HARKER."
The Professor was delighted. "Ah, that wonderful Madam Mina," he said,
"pearl among women! She arrive, but I cannot stay. She must go to your
ho... | 17,080 | Chapters 17-19 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201112034547/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/d/dracula/summary-and-analysis/chapters-1719 | Dr. Seward's diary continues sometime later, and he details for us his first meeting with Mina Harker. Mina, he says, will travel with Seward to Seward's asylum, where she will stay as a guest. In her journal, Mina details the discussion which she and Seward had concerning Lucy's death. Mina agrees to type out Seward's... | Chapter 17 is the first time in the novel when all of the protagonists are finally together. These six people -- Mina, Jonathan, Dr. Van Helsing, Dr. Seward, Lord Godalming , and Quincey Morris -- will confront the evil represented by Count Dracula. They must undertake the task by themselves since no authority or outsi... | 1,193 | 397 |
345 | true | cliffnotes | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/chapters_20_to_23.txt | finished_summaries/cliffnotes/Dracula/section_8_part_0.txt | Dracula.chapters 20-23 | chapters 20-23 | null | {"name": "Chapters 20-23", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201112034547/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/d/dracula/summary-and-analysis/chapters-2023", "summary": "Jonathan, through his persistent investigations, discovers the whereabouts of twelve more of the boxes of earth: Two groups of six were deposite... |
_1 October, evening._--I found Thomas Snelling in his house at Bethnal
Green, but unhappily he was not in a condition to remember anything. The
very prospect of beer which my expected coming had opened to him had
proved too much, and he had begun too early on his expected debauch. I
learned, however, from his wife, wh... | 21,542 | Chapters 20-23 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201112034547/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/d/dracula/summary-and-analysis/chapters-2023 | Jonathan, through his persistent investigations, discovers the whereabouts of twelve more of the boxes of earth: Two groups of six were deposited at two different places in London. Jonathan assumes that it is the Count's plan to scatter the boxes throughout all of London. We should recall that there were twenty-nine bo... | The two central incidents of these chapters involve Mina's encounter with Dracula and her coming under his evil influence. Second, these chapters are also concerned with the discovery and "sterilization" of the fifty boxes of earth which Dracula brought with him. Since we earlier heard that a vampire can only enter an ... | 1,401 | 337 |
345 | true | cliffnotes | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/chapters_24_to_25.txt | finished_summaries/cliffnotes/Dracula/section_9_part_0.txt | Dracula.chapters 24-25 | chapters 24-25 | null | {"name": "Chapters 24-25", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201112034547/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/d/dracula/summary-and-analysis/chapters-2425", "summary": "Van Helsing thinks that Jonathan Harker should stay in England with his wife, since he now knows that Dracula is returning to Transylvania. Jona... |
This to Jonathan Harker.
You are to stay with your dear Madam Mina. We shall go to make our
search--if I can call it so, for it is not search but knowing, and we
seek confirmation only. But do you stay and take care of her to-day.
This is your best and most holiest office. This day nothing can find him
here. Let me t... | 12,069 | Chapters 24-25 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201112034547/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/d/dracula/summary-and-analysis/chapters-2425 | Van Helsing thinks that Jonathan Harker should stay in England with his wife, since he now knows that Dracula is returning to Transylvania. Jonathan Harker expresses in his journal how happy Mina is that Dracula is returning to Transylvania, but when Harker looks at the terrible mark on Mina's forehead , he is reminded... | It is only now, this late in the novel, that we learn the real reason why Dracula has come to England: his country is "barren of peoples," and England is teeming with numbers of new victims. Since Count Dracula brought with him fifty boxes of earth, one can assume that he was intending to stay in England quite some tim... | 710 | 254 |
345 | true | cliffnotes | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/chapters_26_to_27.txt | finished_summaries/cliffnotes/Dracula/section_10_part_0.txt | Dracula.chapters 26-27 | chapters 26-27 | null | {"name": "Chapters 26-27", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201112034547/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/d/dracula/summary-and-analysis/chapters-2627", "summary": "On the 29th day of October, Dr. Seward records that Mina, under hypnosis, can hear and distinguish very little, and that the things which she do... |
_29 October._--This is written in the train from Varna to Galatz. Last
night we all assembled a little before the time of sunset. Each of us
had done his work as well as he could; so far as thought, and endeavour,
and opportunity go, we are prepared for the whole of our journey, and
for our work when we get to Galatz... | 14,126 | Chapters 26-27 | https://web.archive.org/web/20201112034547/https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/d/dracula/summary-and-analysis/chapters-2627 | On the 29th day of October, Dr. Seward records that Mina, under hypnosis, can hear and distinguish very little, and that the things which she does hear -- such as the lowing of cattle -- indicate that Dracula's coffin is now being moved up-river. Jonathan Harker records on October 30th that the captain of the ship whic... | The closing chapters of the novel suggest a type of chase novel, with the "good guys" chasing the evil person, who seems to be able to constantly elude them. Even at the end of the novel, it seems as though the Count will escape into the sinking sunset before the "rituals" can be performed upon him. Actually, for most ... | 1,272 | 252 |
345 | false | sparknotes | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/28.txt | finished_summaries/sparknotes/Dracula/section_0_part_0.txt | Dracula.chapter i | chapter i | null | {"name": "Chapter I", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210120133206/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dracula/section1/", "summary": "Dracula begins with the diary kept by Jonathan Harker--an English solicitor, or lawyer--as he makes his way from England to Eastern Europe. Embarking on his first professional assignme... |
_3 May. Bistritz._--Left Munich at 8:35 P. M., on 1st May, arriving at
Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6:46, but train was an
hour late. Buda-Pesth seems a wonderful place, from the glimpse which I
got of it from the train and the little I could walk through the
streets. I feared to go very far from ... | 5,306 | Chapter I | https://web.archive.org/web/20210120133206/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dracula/section1/ | Dracula begins with the diary kept by Jonathan Harker--an English solicitor, or lawyer--as he makes his way from England to Eastern Europe. Embarking on his first professional assignment as a solicitor, Harker is traveling to the castle of Count Dracula, a Transylvanian nobleman. Harker hopes to conclude a real estate ... | Though Stoker wrote Dracula well after the heyday of the Gothic novel--the period from approximately 1760 to 1820--the novel draws on many conventions of the genre, especially in these opening chapters. Conceived primarily as bloodcurdling tales of horror, Gothic novels tend to feature strong supernatural elements juxt... | 593 | 531 |
345 | false | sparknotes | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/29.txt | finished_summaries/sparknotes/Dracula/section_1_part_1.txt | Dracula.chapter ii | chapter ii | null | {"name": "Chapter II", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210120133206/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dracula/section2/", "summary": "Jonathan Harker stands outside Dracula's remarkable castle, wondering what sort of adventure he has gotten himself into. After a long wait, the count appears and welcomes Harker. Clad... |
_5 May._--I must have been asleep, for certainly if I had been fully
awake I must have noticed the approach of such a remarkable place. In
the gloom the courtyard looked of considerable size, and as several dark
ways led from it under great round arches, it perhaps seemed bigger than
it really is. I have not yet been... | 5,111 | Chapter II | https://web.archive.org/web/20210120133206/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dracula/section2/ | Jonathan Harker stands outside Dracula's remarkable castle, wondering what sort of adventure he has gotten himself into. After a long wait, the count appears and welcomes Harker. Clad in black, he is a tall old man, who is clean-shaven aside from a long, white moustache. When the two shake hands, Harker is impressed by... | The Author's Note with which Dracula begins reflects a popular conceit in eighteenth-century fiction. Rather than constructing a narrative from the perspective of an omniscient third-person narrator, Stoker presents the story through transcribed journals. In effect, the novel masquerades as a real diary. Were the story... | 403 | 665 |
345 | false | sparknotes | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/30.txt | finished_summaries/sparknotes/Dracula/section_1_part_2.txt | Dracula.chapter iii | chapter iii | null | {"name": "Chapter III", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210120133206/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dracula/section2/", "summary": "That night, Harker questions his host about the history of Transylvania. Dracula speaks enthusiastically of the country's people and battles, and he boasts of the glories of his fami... |
When I found that I was a prisoner a sort of wild feeling came over me.
I rushed up and down the stairs, trying every door and peering out of
every window I could find; but after a little the conviction of my
helplessness overpowered all other feelings. When I look back after a
few hours I think I must have been mad f... | 5,442 | Chapter III | https://web.archive.org/web/20210120133206/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dracula/section2/ | That night, Harker questions his host about the history of Transylvania. Dracula speaks enthusiastically of the country's people and battles, and he boasts of the glories of his family name. Over the course of the next several days, the count, in turn, grills Harker about matters of English life and law. He tells Harke... | The Author's Note with which Dracula begins reflects a popular conceit in eighteenth-century fiction. Rather than constructing a narrative from the perspective of an omniscient third-person narrator, Stoker presents the story through transcribed journals. In effect, the novel masquerades as a real diary. Were the story... | 286 | 665 |
345 | false | sparknotes | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/31.txt | finished_summaries/sparknotes/Dracula/section_1_part_3.txt | Dracula.chapter iv | chapter iv | null | {"name": "Chapter IV", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210120133206/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dracula/section2/", "summary": "Harker wakes up in his own bed, unsure whether the previous night's experience was a dream or reality. Several days later, Dracula asks Harker write three letters to his fiancee and e... |
I awoke in my own bed. If it be that I had not dreamt, the Count must
have carried me here. I tried to satisfy myself on the subject, but
could not arrive at any unquestionable result. To be sure, there were
certain small evidences, such as that my clothes were folded and laid by
in a manner which was not my habit. My... | 5,815 | Chapter IV | https://web.archive.org/web/20210120133206/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dracula/section2/ | Harker wakes up in his own bed, unsure whether the previous night's experience was a dream or reality. Several days later, Dracula asks Harker write three letters to his fiancee and employer, and to date them June 12, 19, and 29, even though it is currently only May 19. The count instructs Harker to write that he has l... | The Author's Note with which Dracula begins reflects a popular conceit in eighteenth-century fiction. Rather than constructing a narrative from the perspective of an omniscient third-person narrator, Stoker presents the story through transcribed journals. In effect, the novel masquerades as a real diary. Were the story... | 479 | 665 |
345 | false | sparknotes | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/32.txt | finished_summaries/sparknotes/Dracula/section_2_part_1.txt | Dracula.chapter v | chapter v | null | {"name": "Chapter V", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210120133206/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dracula/section3/", "summary": "Chapter V consists of several letters and a diary entry. In England, Mina Murray and her friend, Lucy Westenra, exchange letters about their respective romances. Mina is an assistant s... |
"_9 May._
"My dearest Lucy,--
"Forgive my long delay in writing, but I have been simply overwhelmed
with work. The life of an assistant schoolmistress is sometimes trying.
I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together
freely and build our castles in the air. I have been working very hard
l... | 3,253 | Chapter V | https://web.archive.org/web/20210120133206/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dracula/section3/ | Chapter V consists of several letters and a diary entry. In England, Mina Murray and her friend, Lucy Westenra, exchange letters about their respective romances. Mina is an assistant schoolmistress whose desire to be useful to her future husband has led her to study shorthand and typewriting. She happily reports that h... | In Gothic literature, the battle between well-defined forces of good and evil frequently dominates plots. In Dracula, that battle is largely waged over the fate of its female protagonists, Lucy Westenra and Mina Murray. Neither Mina nor Lucy is a particularly profound character--instead, both represent the Victorian id... | 159 | 902 |
345 | false | sparknotes | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/33.txt | finished_summaries/sparknotes/Dracula/section_2_part_2.txt | Dracula.chapter vi | chapter vi | null | {"name": "Chapter VI", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210120133206/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dracula/section3/", "summary": "In her journal, Mina describes her visit with Lucy in the picturesque town of Whitby, on the northeast coast of England, and the ruined abbey there that is reputed to be haunted. Mr. ... |
_24 July. Whitby._--Lucy met me at the station, looking sweeter and
lovelier than ever, and we drove up to the house at the Crescent in
which they have rooms. This is a lovely place. The little river, the
Esk, runs through a deep valley, which broadens out as it comes near the
harbour. A great viaduct runs across, wit... | 5,630 | Chapter VI | https://web.archive.org/web/20210120133206/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dracula/section3/ | In her journal, Mina describes her visit with Lucy in the picturesque town of Whitby, on the northeast coast of England, and the ruined abbey there that is reputed to be haunted. Mr. Swales, an elderly resident who befriends the two girls and tells them stories about the town, scoffs at such legends. Mr. Swales asserts... | In Gothic literature, the battle between well-defined forces of good and evil frequently dominates plots. In Dracula, that battle is largely waged over the fate of its female protagonists, Lucy Westenra and Mina Murray. Neither Mina nor Lucy is a particularly profound character--instead, both represent the Victorian id... | 290 | 902 |
345 | false | sparknotes | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/34.txt | finished_summaries/sparknotes/Dracula/section_2_part_3.txt | Dracula.chapter vii | chapter vii | null | {"name": "Chapter VII", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210120133206/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dracula/section3/", "summary": "Two newspaper clippings indicate that the ship Mina and Mr. Swales have seen, a vessel called the Demeter, later washes up on the shore at Whitby during a terrific storm. Its crew is... |
From a Correspondent.
_Whitby_.
One of the greatest and suddenest storms on record has just been
experienced here, with results both strange and unique. The weather had
been somewhat sultry, but not to any degree uncommon in the month of
August. Saturday evening was as fine as was ever known, and the great
body of h... | 5,877 | Chapter VII | https://web.archive.org/web/20210120133206/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dracula/section3/ | Two newspaper clippings indicate that the ship Mina and Mr. Swales have seen, a vessel called the Demeter, later washes up on the shore at Whitby during a terrific storm. Its crew is nowhere to be found, while its captain, dead and clasping a crucifix, is discovered tied to the wheel. When the ship runs aground, a huge... | In Gothic literature, the battle between well-defined forces of good and evil frequently dominates plots. In Dracula, that battle is largely waged over the fate of its female protagonists, Lucy Westenra and Mina Murray. Neither Mina nor Lucy is a particularly profound character--instead, both represent the Victorian id... | 326 | 902 |
345 | false | sparknotes | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/35.txt | finished_summaries/sparknotes/Dracula/section_3_part_1.txt | Dracula.chapter viii | chapter viii | null | {"name": "Chapter VIII", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210120133206/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dracula/section4/", "summary": "On August 10, Mina awakens to find Lucy's bed empty. She goes outside to find Lucy and sees her in the churchyard, reclining on her favorite bench with a dark figure bending over he... |
_Same day, 11 o'clock p. m._--Oh, but I am tired! If it were not that I
had made my diary a duty I should not open it to-night. We had a lovely
walk. Lucy, after a while, was in gay spirits, owing, I think, to some
dear cows who came nosing towards us in a field close to the lighthouse,
and frightened the wits out of... | 6,093 | Chapter VIII | https://web.archive.org/web/20210120133206/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dracula/section4/ | On August 10, Mina awakens to find Lucy's bed empty. She goes outside to find Lucy and sees her in the churchyard, reclining on her favorite bench with a dark figure bending over her. As Mina approaches, the figure looks toward her, exposing a pale face and gleaming red eyes. By the time Mina reaches Lucy, however, the... | Dracula's portrayal of women makes the novel seem like a fantasy of the Victorian male imagination. Women are primarily objects of delicate beauty who occasionally need to be rescued from danger--a task that, more than anything else, ends up bolstering the ego of their male saviors. Indeed, among the female characters ... | 391 | 529 |
345 | false | sparknotes | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/36.txt | finished_summaries/sparknotes/Dracula/section_3_part_2.txt | Dracula.chapter ix | chapter ix | null | {"name": "Chapter IX", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210120133206/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dracula/section4/", "summary": "Mina writes from Buda-Pest, telling Lucy that Jonathan has changed greatly. He is \"a wreck of himself\" and remembers nothing of his time in Transylvania. The nun tending to Jonathan... |
"My dearest Lucy,--
"I know you will be anxious to hear all that has happened since we
parted at the railway station at Whitby. Well, my dear, I got to Hull
all right, and caught the boat to Hamburg, and then the train on here. I
feel that I can hardly recall anything of the journey, except that I
knew I was coming t... | 5,717 | Chapter IX | https://web.archive.org/web/20210120133206/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dracula/section4/ | Mina writes from Buda-Pest, telling Lucy that Jonathan has changed greatly. He is "a wreck of himself" and remembers nothing of his time in Transylvania. The nun tending to Jonathan confides in Mina that he often raves deliriously about unspeakable things. Jonathan is still in possession of his diary and knows that the... | Dracula's portrayal of women makes the novel seem like a fantasy of the Victorian male imagination. Women are primarily objects of delicate beauty who occasionally need to be rescued from danger--a task that, more than anything else, ends up bolstering the ego of their male saviors. Indeed, among the female characters ... | 364 | 529 |
345 | false | sparknotes | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/37.txt | finished_summaries/sparknotes/Dracula/section_4_part_1.txt | Dracula.chapter x | chapter x | null | {"name": "Chapter X", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210120133206/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dracula/section5/", "summary": "Seward and Holmwood are concerned about Lucy's suddenly failing health. When Van Helsing arrives to find Lucy terribly pale and unable to breathe easily, he transfuses Holmwood's blood... |
"_6 September._
"My dear Art,--
"My news to-day is not so good. Lucy this morning had gone back a bit.
There is, however, one good thing which has arisen from it; Mrs.
Westenra was naturally anxious concerning Lucy, and has consulted me
professionally about her. I took advantage of the opportunity, and told
her that... | 5,513 | Chapter X | https://web.archive.org/web/20210120133206/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dracula/section5/ | Seward and Holmwood are concerned about Lucy's suddenly failing health. When Van Helsing arrives to find Lucy terribly pale and unable to breathe easily, he transfuses Holmwood's blood into Lucy. The doctors examine the punctures on Lucy's neck. Though Seward is convinced that these wounds caused her severe loss of blo... | Seward's inability to diagnose or stem the progression of Lucy's illness demonstrates the effectiveness of Dracula's assault on Victorian social order and also exposes the limits of Western science and reason. Only legend and superstition--not reason and science--are effective in fighting Dracula. Even the many advance... | 197 | 485 |
345 | false | sparknotes | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/38.txt | finished_summaries/sparknotes/Dracula/section_4_part_2.txt | Dracula.chapter xi | chapter xi | null | {"name": "Chapter XI", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210120133206/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dracula/section5/", "summary": "In the morning, Van Helsing and Dr. Seward return to the Westenra residence. They are greeted by Lucy's mother, who tells them that during the night she removed all the \"horrible, st... |
_12 September._--How good they all are to me. I quite love that dear Dr.
Van Helsing. I wonder why he was so anxious about these flowers. He
positively frightened me, he was so fierce. And yet he must have been
right, for I feel comfort from them already. Somehow, I do not dread
being alone to-night, and I can go to s... | 4,746 | Chapter XI | https://web.archive.org/web/20210120133206/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dracula/section5/ | In the morning, Van Helsing and Dr. Seward return to the Westenra residence. They are greeted by Lucy's mother, who tells them that during the night she removed all the "horrible, strong-smelling flowers" from Lucy's room and opened the windows to let in fresh air. After Mrs. Westenra leaves the room, Van Helsing nearl... | Seward's inability to diagnose or stem the progression of Lucy's illness demonstrates the effectiveness of Dracula's assault on Victorian social order and also exposes the limits of Western science and reason. Only legend and superstition--not reason and science--are effective in fighting Dracula. Even the many advance... | 345 | 485 |
345 | false | sparknotes | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/39.txt | finished_summaries/sparknotes/Dracula/section_5_part_1.txt | Dracula.chapter xii | chapter xii | null | {"name": "Chapter XII", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210120133206/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dracula/section6/", "summary": "The narrative returns to Seward's diary entries. Arriving at the Westenras' the next day, Van Helsing and Seward find the scene of destruction: the maids unconscious on the dining ro... |
_18 September._--I drove at once to Hillingham and arrived early.
Keeping my cab at the gate, I went up the avenue alone. I knocked gently
and rang as quietly as possible, for I feared to disturb Lucy or her
mother, and hoped to only bring a servant to the door. After a while,
finding no response, I knocked and rang a... | 6,737 | Chapter XII | https://web.archive.org/web/20210120133206/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dracula/section6/ | The narrative returns to Seward's diary entries. Arriving at the Westenras' the next day, Van Helsing and Seward find the scene of destruction: the maids unconscious on the dining room floor, Mrs. Westenra dead, and Lucy once again at death's door, with terrible, mangled wounds at her neck. Neither of the men can spare... | In this section, we witness Lucy's transformation into a super-natural creature. The description of her death immediately alerts us that she has crossed into the realm of the supernatural: the wounds on her neck disappear and all of her "loveliness back to her in death." The clippings about the threatening "Bloofer La... | 274 | 485 |
345 | false | sparknotes | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/40.txt | finished_summaries/sparknotes/Dracula/section_5_part_2.txt | Dracula.chapter xiii | chapter xiii | null | {"name": "Chapter XIII", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210120133206/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dracula/section6/", "summary": "Seward's diary continues, as he describes Lucy's burial. Before the funeral, Van Helsing covers the coffin and body with garlic and places a crucifix in Lucy's mouth. He tells a con... |
The funeral was arranged for the next succeeding day, so that Lucy and
her mother might be buried together. I attended to all the ghastly
formalities, and the urbane undertaker proved that his staff were
afflicted--or blessed--with something of his own obsequious suavity.
Even the woman who performed the last offices ... | 6,267 | Chapter XIII | https://web.archive.org/web/20210120133206/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dracula/section6/ | Seward's diary continues, as he describes Lucy's burial. Before the funeral, Van Helsing covers the coffin and body with garlic and places a crucifix in Lucy's mouth. He tells a confused Seward that after the funeral, they must cut off Lucy's head and take out her heart. The next day, however, Van Helsing discovers tha... | In this section, we witness Lucy's transformation into a super-natural creature. The description of her death immediately alerts us that she has crossed into the realm of the supernatural: the wounds on her neck disappear and all of her "loveliness back to her in death." The clippings about the threatening "Bloofer La... | 259 | 485 |
345 | false | sparknotes | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/41.txt | finished_summaries/sparknotes/Dracula/section_5_part_3.txt | Dracula.chapter xiv | chapter xiv | null | {"name": "Chapter XIV", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210120133206/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dracula/section6/", "summary": "Transcribing her husband's journal, Mina is horrified by its contents. When Van Helsing visits Mina in order to discuss the events leading up to Lucy's death, she is so impressed tha... |
_23 September_.--Jonathan is better after a bad night. I am so glad that
he has plenty of work to do, for that keeps his mind off the terrible
things; and oh, I am rejoiced that he is not now weighed down with the
responsibility of his new position. I knew he would be true to himself,
and now how proud I am to see my ... | 5,963 | Chapter XIV | https://web.archive.org/web/20210120133206/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dracula/section6/ | Transcribing her husband's journal, Mina is horrified by its contents. When Van Helsing visits Mina in order to discuss the events leading up to Lucy's death, she is so impressed that she gives him Jonathan's diary to read. Van Helsing reads the diary and returns to see the couple at breakfast the next day. Van Helsing... | In this section, we witness Lucy's transformation into a super-natural creature. The description of her death immediately alerts us that she has crossed into the realm of the supernatural: the wounds on her neck disappear and all of her "loveliness back to her in death." The clippings about the threatening "Bloofer La... | 182 | 485 |
345 | false | sparknotes | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/42.txt | finished_summaries/sparknotes/Dracula/section_6_part_1.txt | Dracula.chapter xv | chapter xv | null | {"name": "Chapter XV", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210120133206/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dracula/section7/", "summary": "Seward is appalled by Van Helsing's suggestion that Lucy is in some way responsible for the rash of wounded children. However, due to his respect for the elder doctor, he accompanies ... |
For a while sheer anger mastered me; it was as if he had during her life
struck Lucy on the face. I smote the table hard and rose up as I said to
him:--
"Dr. Van Helsing, are you mad?" He raised his head and looked at me, and
somehow the tenderness of his face calmed me at once. "Would I were!" he
said. "Madness were... | 5,398 | Chapter XV | https://web.archive.org/web/20210120133206/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dracula/section7/ | Seward is appalled by Van Helsing's suggestion that Lucy is in some way responsible for the rash of wounded children. However, due to his respect for the elder doctor, he accompanies Van Helsing on his investigation. The two men visit one of the wounded children and find that the marks on the child's neck are identical... | In this section, Lucy's transformation reaches its terrible end. Lucy is now a perversion of the two most sacred female virtues in Victorian England: maternalism and sexual purity. In Chapter XVII, Mina voices an expectation of Victorian culture when she writes, "We women have something of the mother in us that makes u... | 225 | 534 |
345 | false | sparknotes | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/43.txt | finished_summaries/sparknotes/Dracula/section_6_part_2.txt | Dracula.chapter xvi | chapter xvi | null | {"name": "Chapter XVI", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210120133206/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dracula/section7/", "summary": "That night, the four men go to Lucy's grave and find it empty. Van Helsing seals the door of the tomb with Communion wafers to prevent the vampire Lucy from reentering. The men then ... |
It was just a quarter before twelve o'clock when we got into the
churchyard over the low wall. The night was dark with occasional gleams
of moonlight between the rents of the heavy clouds that scudded across
the sky. We all kept somehow close together, with Van Helsing slightly
in front as he led the way. When we had... | 4,222 | Chapter XVI | https://web.archive.org/web/20210120133206/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dracula/section7/ | That night, the four men go to Lucy's grave and find it empty. Van Helsing seals the door of the tomb with Communion wafers to prevent the vampire Lucy from reentering. The men then hide in wait. Eventually, a figure appears, dressed entirely in white and carrying a child. It is Lucy--or rather, a monster that looks li... | In this section, Lucy's transformation reaches its terrible end. Lucy is now a perversion of the two most sacred female virtues in Victorian England: maternalism and sexual purity. In Chapter XVII, Mina voices an expectation of Victorian culture when she writes, "We women have something of the mother in us that makes u... | 208 | 534 |
345 | false | sparknotes | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/44.txt | finished_summaries/sparknotes/Dracula/section_6_part_3.txt | Dracula.chapter xvii | chapter xvii | null | {"name": "Chapter XVII", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210120133206/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dracula/section7/", "summary": "At Van Helsing's urging, Jonathan and Mina Harker come to stay with Seward at the asylum. Mina transcribes Seward's diary with the typewriter and notes its account of Lucy's death. ... |
When we arrived at the Berkeley Hotel, Van Helsing found a telegram
waiting for him:--
"Am coming up by train. Jonathan at Whitby. Important news.--MINA
HARKER."
The Professor was delighted. "Ah, that wonderful Madam Mina," he said,
"pearl among women! She arrive, but I cannot stay. She must go to your
ho... | 5,422 | Chapter XVII | https://web.archive.org/web/20210120133206/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dracula/section7/ | At Van Helsing's urging, Jonathan and Mina Harker come to stay with Seward at the asylum. Mina transcribes Seward's diary with the typewriter and notes its account of Lucy's death. Meanwhile, Seward reads the Harkers' journals, realizing for the first time that Dracula may well be his next-door neighbor and that there ... | In this section, Lucy's transformation reaches its terrible end. Lucy is now a perversion of the two most sacred female virtues in Victorian England: maternalism and sexual purity. In Chapter XVII, Mina voices an expectation of Victorian culture when she writes, "We women have something of the mother in us that makes u... | 150 | 534 |
345 | false | sparknotes | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/45.txt | finished_summaries/sparknotes/Dracula/section_6_part_4.txt | Dracula.chapter xviii | chapter xviii | null | {"name": "Chapter XVIII", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210120133206/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dracula/section7/", "summary": "With Seward's permission, Mina visits Renfield. The madman frantically swallows his collection of flies and spiders before she enters, but is extremely polite and seems rational in... |
_30 September._--I got home at five o'clock, and found that Godalming
and Morris had not only arrived, but had already studied the transcript
of the various diaries and letters which Harker and his wonderful wife
had made and arranged. Harker had not yet returned from his visit to the
carriers' men, of whom Dr. Henne... | 6,359 | Chapter XVIII | https://web.archive.org/web/20210120133206/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dracula/section7/ | With Seward's permission, Mina visits Renfield. The madman frantically swallows his collection of flies and spiders before she enters, but is extremely polite and seems rational in her presence. Van Helsing arrives at the asylum. Pleased to see that Seward's diaries and letters have been typed and placed in order, he c... | In this section, Lucy's transformation reaches its terrible end. Lucy is now a perversion of the two most sacred female virtues in Victorian England: maternalism and sexual purity. In Chapter XVII, Mina voices an expectation of Victorian culture when she writes, "We women have something of the mother in us that makes u... | 276 | 534 |
345 | false | sparknotes | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/46.txt | finished_summaries/sparknotes/Dracula/section_7_part_1.txt | Dracula.chapter xix | chapter xix | null | {"name": "Chapter XIX", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210120133206/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dracula/section8/", "summary": "The men make the journey to Carfax, arming themselves with holy objects for protection. There is no sign of Dracula in the chapel, but there is a terrible stench, and the men find tw... |
_1 October, 5 a. m._--I went with the party to the search with an easy
mind, for I think I never saw Mina so absolutely strong and well. I am
so glad that she consented to hold back and let us men do the work.
Somehow, it was a dread to me that she was in this fearful business at
all; but now that her work is done, an... | 5,301 | Chapter XIX | https://web.archive.org/web/20210120133206/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dracula/section8/ | The men make the journey to Carfax, arming themselves with holy objects for protection. There is no sign of Dracula in the chapel, but there is a terrible stench, and the men find twenty-nine of the original fifty boxes of earth. To the men's horror, rats begin to fill the chapel. The men use a whistle to summon dogs t... | In these chapters, Mina stands ready as the count's next victim. When she writes that "sleep begins to flirt with me," we know that it is Dracula--not sleep--that is seducing her during the night. These suspicions are confirmed in Chapter XXI, when, in one of the novel's strangest and most debated scenes, Van Helsing's... | 215 | 423 |
345 | false | sparknotes | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/47.txt | finished_summaries/sparknotes/Dracula/section_7_part_2.txt | Dracula.chapter xx | chapter xx | null | {"name": "Chapter XX", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210120133206/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dracula/section8/", "summary": "Harker's investigations reveal that twelve of the remaining boxes of earth were deposited in two houses in London. He traces the remaining nine boxes to a house in Piccadilly, a Londo... |
_1 October, evening._--I found Thomas Snelling in his house at Bethnal
Green, but unhappily he was not in a condition to remember anything. The
very prospect of beer which my expected coming had opened to him had
proved too much, and he had begun too early on his expected debauch. I
learned, however, from his wife, wh... | 5,531 | Chapter XX | https://web.archive.org/web/20210120133206/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dracula/section8/ | Harker's investigations reveal that twelve of the remaining boxes of earth were deposited in two houses in London. He traces the remaining nine boxes to a house in Piccadilly, a London suburb. Harker's companions worry over how they will manage to break into a house in such a highly populated area. Seward chronicles ra... | In these chapters, Mina stands ready as the count's next victim. When she writes that "sleep begins to flirt with me," we know that it is Dracula--not sleep--that is seducing her during the night. These suspicions are confirmed in Chapter XXI, when, in one of the novel's strangest and most debated scenes, Van Helsing's... | 151 | 423 |
345 | false | sparknotes | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/48.txt | finished_summaries/sparknotes/Dracula/section_7_part_3.txt | Dracula.chapter xxi | chapter xxi | null | {"name": "Chapter XXI", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210120133206/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dracula/section8/", "summary": "Dying, Renfield admits to the other men that Dracula often visited him, promising him flies, spiders, and other living creatures from which to gain strength in return for Renfield's ... |
_3 October._--Let me put down with exactness all that happened, as well
as I can remember it, since last I made an entry. Not a detail that I
can recall must be forgotten; in all calmness I must proceed.
When I came to Renfield's room I found him lying on the floor on his
left side in a glittering pool of blood. Whe... | 5,685 | Chapter XXI | https://web.archive.org/web/20210120133206/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dracula/section8/ | Dying, Renfield admits to the other men that Dracula often visited him, promising him flies, spiders, and other living creatures from which to gain strength in return for Renfield's obedience. Later, when Mina visited him, Renfield noted her paleness and realized that Dracula had been "taking the life out of her. He gr... | In these chapters, Mina stands ready as the count's next victim. When she writes that "sleep begins to flirt with me," we know that it is Dracula--not sleep--that is seducing her during the night. These suspicions are confirmed in Chapter XXI, when, in one of the novel's strangest and most debated scenes, Van Helsing's... | 335 | 423 |
345 | false | sparknotes | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/49.txt | finished_summaries/sparknotes/Dracula/section_8_part_1.txt | Dracula.chapter xxii | chapter xxii | null | {"name": "Chapter XXII", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210120133206/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dracula/section9/", "summary": "In his journal, Harker recounts the end of Renfield's story: before escaping the asylum, the count pays one last visit to the lunatic, breaking his neck and killing him. Harker and ... |
_3 October._--As I must do something or go mad, I write this diary. It
is now six o'clock, and we are to meet in the study in half an hour and
take something to eat; for Dr. Van Helsing and Dr. Seward are agreed
that if we do not eat we cannot work our best. Our best will be, God
knows, required to-day. I must keep w... | 5,058 | Chapter XXII | https://web.archive.org/web/20210120133206/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dracula/section9/ | In his journal, Harker recounts the end of Renfield's story: before escaping the asylum, the count pays one last visit to the lunatic, breaking his neck and killing him. Harker and his compatriots go to Carfax the next day and place a Communion wafer in each of Dracula's boxes of earth, rendering them unfit for the vam... | When the Communion wafer singes Mina's forehead, the fight against Dracula's evil takes on added meaning. The men decide that their efforts also represent a fight to restore a woman to her unpolluted, virtuous self. From the beginning of the novel, Mina has proven herself resourceful and dedicated, sticking by both Jon... | 105 | 511 |
345 | false | sparknotes | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/50.txt | finished_summaries/sparknotes/Dracula/section_8_part_2.txt | Dracula.chapter xxiii | chapter xxiii | null | {"name": "Chapter XXIII", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210120133206/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dracula/section9/", "summary": "The men obtain keys to Dracula's other houses around the city. Holmwood and Morris hurry off to sterilize the twelve boxes that are stored in London, while Harker and Van Helsing l... |
_3 October._--The time seemed terrible long whilst we were waiting for
the coming of Godalming and Quincey Morris. The Professor tried to keep
our minds active by using them all the time. I could see his beneficent
purpose, by the side glances which he threw from time to time at Harker.
The poor fellow is overwhelmed... | 5,271 | Chapter XXIII | https://web.archive.org/web/20210120133206/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dracula/section9/ | The men obtain keys to Dracula's other houses around the city. Holmwood and Morris hurry off to sterilize the twelve boxes that are stored in London, while Harker and Van Helsing leave to do the same to the boxes in Piccadilly. Reaching Piccadilly, the men find only eight boxes--the ninth is missing. Mina sends a messa... | When the Communion wafer singes Mina's forehead, the fight against Dracula's evil takes on added meaning. The men decide that their efforts also represent a fight to restore a woman to her unpolluted, virtuous self. From the beginning of the novel, Mina has proven herself resourceful and dedicated, sticking by both Jon... | 202 | 511 |
345 | false | sparknotes | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/51.txt | finished_summaries/sparknotes/Dracula/section_8_part_3.txt | Dracula.chapter xxiv | chapter xxiv | null | {"name": "Chapter XXIV", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210120133206/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dracula/section9/", "summary": "Van Helsing's band discovers that the count has boarded a ship named the Czarina Catherine, which is bound for Varna, the same Russian port from which Dracula sailed three months be... |
This to Jonathan Harker.
You are to stay with your dear Madam Mina. We shall go to make our
search--if I can call it so, for it is not search but knowing, and we
seek confirmation only. But do you stay and take care of her to-day.
This is your best and most holiest office. This day nothing can find him
here. Let me t... | 6,020 | Chapter XXIV | https://web.archive.org/web/20210120133206/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dracula/section9/ | Van Helsing's band discovers that the count has boarded a ship named the Czarina Catherine, which is bound for Varna, the same Russian port from which Dracula sailed three months before. Van Helsing delivers an impassioned speech in which he declares it necessary to defeat Dracula for the good of humankind. He claims t... | When the Communion wafer singes Mina's forehead, the fight against Dracula's evil takes on added meaning. The men decide that their efforts also represent a fight to restore a woman to her unpolluted, virtuous self. From the beginning of the novel, Mina has proven herself resourceful and dedicated, sticking by both Jon... | 132 | 511 |
345 | false | sparknotes | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/52.txt | finished_summaries/sparknotes/Dracula/section_8_part_4.txt | Dracula.chapter xxv | chapter xxv | null | {"name": "Chapter XXV", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210120133206/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dracula/section9/", "summary": "Before departing, Mina asks the group to pledge that they will, for the sake of her soul, destroy her if should she transform into a vampire. The men take a solemn vow to comply with... |
_11 October, Evening._--Jonathan Harker has asked me to note this, as he
says he is hardly equal to the task, and he wants an exact record kept.
I think that none of us were surprised when we were asked to see Mrs.
Harker a little before the time of sunset. We have of late come to
understand that sunrise and sunset a... | 6,050 | Chapter XXV | https://web.archive.org/web/20210120133206/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dracula/section9/ | Before departing, Mina asks the group to pledge that they will, for the sake of her soul, destroy her if should she transform into a vampire. The men take a solemn vow to comply with Mina's wishes. On October 12, they board the Orient Express and make their way to Varna, where Van Helsing arranges to board the Czarina ... | When the Communion wafer singes Mina's forehead, the fight against Dracula's evil takes on added meaning. The men decide that their efforts also represent a fight to restore a woman to her unpolluted, virtuous self. From the beginning of the novel, Mina has proven herself resourceful and dedicated, sticking by both Jon... | 155 | 511 |
345 | false | sparknotes | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/53.txt | finished_summaries/sparknotes/Dracula/section_9_part_1.txt | Dracula.chapters xxvi | chapter xxvi | null | {"name": "Chapter XXVI", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210120133206/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dracula/section10/", "summary": "Seward writes a diary entry while on the train from Varna to Galatz. He notes that Mina's trances reveal less and less, but are still of some value. Mina hears the sound of lapping... |
_29 October._--This is written in the train from Varna to Galatz. Last
night we all assembled a little before the time of sunset. Each of us
had done his work as well as he could; so far as thought, and endeavour,
and opportunity go, we are prepared for the whole of our journey, and
for our work when we get to Galatz... | 7,004 | Chapter XXVI | https://web.archive.org/web/20210120133206/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dracula/section10/ | Seward writes a diary entry while on the train from Varna to Galatz. He notes that Mina's trances reveal less and less, but are still of some value. Mina hears the sound of lapping water, so the band knows that Dracula remains somewhere close to water. The men hope to reach Galatz before the box is unloaded, but they a... | Stoker reiterates the threat of rampant female sexuality by reintroducing the three vampire women who threaten to seduce Harker in the novel's opening chapters. The women pose two distinct threats. First, they stand ready to convert Mina, sapping her of her virtue and transforming her into a soulless vixen. Second, the... | 250 | 565 |
345 | false | sparknotes | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/54.txt | finished_summaries/sparknotes/Dracula/section_9_part_2.txt | Dracula.chapters xxvii | chapter xxvii | null | {"name": "Chapter XXVII", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210120133206/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dracula/section10/", "summary": "Van Helsing pens a memorandum to Seward, writing that he and Mina have reached the Borgo Pass. As they climb the trail toward the castle, Van Helsing finds that he can no longer h... |
_1 November._--All day long we have travelled, and at a good speed. The
horses seem to know that they are being kindly treated, for they go
willingly their full stage at best speed. We have now had so many
changes and find the same thing so constantly that we are encouraged to
think that the journey will be an easy on... | 7,123 | Chapter XXVII | https://web.archive.org/web/20210120133206/https://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dracula/section10/ | Van Helsing pens a memorandum to Seward, writing that he and Mina have reached the Borgo Pass. As they climb the trail toward the castle, Van Helsing finds that he can no longer hypnotize Mina. That night, fearing for her safety, he encircles her with a ring of crumbled holy Communion wafers. The three female vampires ... | Stoker reiterates the threat of rampant female sexuality by reintroducing the three vampire women who threaten to seduce Harker in the novel's opening chapters. The women pose two distinct threats. First, they stand ready to convert Mina, sapping her of her virtue and transforming her into a soulless vixen. Second, the... | 408 | 565 |
345 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/28.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Dracula/section_0_part_0.txt | Dracula.chapter 1 | chapter 1 | null | {"name": "Chapter 1", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820041120/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmDracula08.asp", "summary": "Chapter 1 starts with the main persona, Jonathan Harker; a solicitor clerk making a journey to Transylvania at the behest of a client Count Dracula. Jonathan starts maki... |
_3 May. Bistritz._--Left Munich at 8:35 P. M., on 1st May, arriving at
Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6:46, but train was an
hour late. Buda-Pesth seems a wonderful place, from the glimpse which I
got of it from the train and the little I could walk through the
streets. I feared to go very far from ... | 5,306 | Chapter 1 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820041120/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmDracula08.asp | Chapter 1 starts with the main persona, Jonathan Harker; a solicitor clerk making a journey to Transylvania at the behest of a client Count Dracula. Jonathan starts making entries in his journal on May 3. He leaves Munich and arrives at Vienna Budapest. He stops at Hotel Royale, where he has dinner but his night is res... | Notes The book, Dracula, starts out with the main persona making entries in his journal giving a more personalized perspective of the happenings. Chapters I - IV, not only give an introduction of Dracula, but also have a kind of a rising action emphasized by terror, which seems to be gathering momentum with each of the... | 415 | 324 |
345 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/29.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Dracula/section_1_part_0.txt | Dracula.chapter 2 | chapter 2 | null | {"name": "Chapter 2", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820041120/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmDracula09.asp", "summary": "Jonathan Harker continues his journal. On May 5, Jonathan Harker recalls that his first glance of the castle is very grim. A tall old man with a long white mustache, cla... |
_5 May._--I must have been asleep, for certainly if I had been fully
awake I must have noticed the approach of such a remarkable place. In
the gloom the courtyard looked of considerable size, and as several dark
ways led from it under great round arches, it perhaps seemed bigger than
it really is. I have not yet been... | 5,111 | Chapter 2 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820041120/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmDracula09.asp | Jonathan Harker continues his journal. On May 5, Jonathan Harker recalls that his first glance of the castle is very grim. A tall old man with a long white mustache, clad in black greets him in excellent English, but with a strange accent. His touch is as cold as ice. He is Count Dracula. Jonathan is relieved of all hi... | Notes This chapter introduces the character of Count Dracula. The Count is a typical urbane gentleman based in Europe. His English is excellent though with a slight accent. His general knowledge is immense and he is an excellent conversationalist. By face value, he is like any other man but the undercurrents of peculia... | 316 | 176 |
345 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/30.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Dracula/section_2_part_0.txt | Dracula.chapter 3 | chapter 3 | null | {"name": "Chapter 3", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820041120/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmDracula10.asp", "summary": "Jonathan Harkers journal continues. He realizes he is a prisoner and he is panic-struck. He rushes up and down looking for an exit point only to be denied. The Count and... |
When I found that I was a prisoner a sort of wild feeling came over me.
I rushed up and down the stairs, trying every door and peering out of
every window I could find; but after a little the conviction of my
helplessness overpowered all other feelings. When I look back after a
few hours I think I must have been mad f... | 5,442 | Chapter 3 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820041120/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmDracula10.asp | Jonathan Harkers journal continues. He realizes he is a prisoner and he is panic-struck. He rushes up and down looking for an exit point only to be denied. The Count and Jonathan meet and have a discussion on Transylvania. Jonathan is horrified when he realizes he is a prisoner, but manages to talk to Dracula calmly. D... | Notes This chapter begins the horror. Jonathan is a prisoner at the mercy of Dracula. This chapter is almost like a semi-climax to the tale of Jonathan. He is enveloped by evil and is faced with foreboding death in the most horrific manner. This chapter, along with the next, tells the story of the evil that would be un... | 286 | 168 |
345 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/31.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Dracula/section_3_part_0.txt | Dracula.chapter 4 | chapter 4 | null | {"name": "Chapter 4", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820041120/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmDracula11.asp", "summary": "Jonathan Harkers journal continues to record the events. He finds himself in his own bed. The Count has carried him back and undressed him. Luckily his diary has not bee... |
I awoke in my own bed. If it be that I had not dreamt, the Count must
have carried me here. I tried to satisfy myself on the subject, but
could not arrive at any unquestionable result. To be sure, there were
certain small evidences, such as that my clothes were folded and laid by
in a manner which was not my habit. My... | 5,815 | Chapter 4 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820041120/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmDracula11.asp | Jonathan Harkers journal continues to record the events. He finds himself in his own bed. The Count has carried him back and undressed him. Luckily his diary has not been found. On May 18, he wants to check Count Draculas door but the door is fastened from inside 19th May. The Count has asked Jonathan to write three le... | Notes This is one of the most important chapters amongst the chapters 1 - 4. This chapter keeps the reader hanging in exasperated anticipation about the fate of Jonathan Harker. One is not sure whether he is dead or alive. Dracula has already spelt out what would happen to him on the 30th June. Firstly, he would be fea... | 419 | 347 |
345 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/32.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Dracula/section_4_part_0.txt | Dracula.chapter 5 | chapter 5 | null | {"name": "Chapter 5", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820041120/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmDracula12.asp", "summary": "This chapter comprises of a series of letters. The first is from Miss Mina Murray to Miss Lucy Westenra, which dated 9th May. She writes that she was sorry for the delay... |
"_9 May._
"My dearest Lucy,--
"Forgive my long delay in writing, but I have been simply overwhelmed
with work. The life of an assistant schoolmistress is sometimes trying.
I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together
freely and build our castles in the air. I have been working very hard
l... | 3,253 | Chapter 5 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820041120/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmDracula12.asp | This chapter comprises of a series of letters. The first is from Miss Mina Murray to Miss Lucy Westenra, which dated 9th May. She writes that she was sorry for the delay in writing as an assistant schoolmistress and that she is very busy. She was practicing shorthand. She writes to her in shorthand and vice versa. She ... | Notes This chapter suddenly breaks the excited action of the last four chapters. This chapter is a series of letters of other characters. Mina, who is Jonathans fiancee mentioned in his journal, writes a letter to Lucy, who appears frivolous and carefree happy girl, almost like a child, cosseted and pampered. She is go... | 247 | 200 |
345 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/33.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Dracula/section_5_part_0.txt | Dracula.chapter 6 | chapter 6 | null | {"name": "Chapter 6", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820041120/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmDracula13.asp", "summary": "This chapter begins with Mina recording entries in her journal. On July 24, she goes to meet Lucy at her place in Whitby, which is a very picturesque place near a little... |
_24 July. Whitby._--Lucy met me at the station, looking sweeter and
lovelier than ever, and we drove up to the house at the Crescent in
which they have rooms. This is a lovely place. The little river, the
Esk, runs through a deep valley, which broadens out as it comes near the
harbour. A great viaduct runs across, wit... | 5,630 | Chapter 6 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820041120/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmDracula13.asp | This chapter begins with Mina recording entries in her journal. On July 24, she goes to meet Lucy at her place in Whitby, which is a very picturesque place near a little river, the Esk. She meets an old man who brushes off her queries of bells at sea and the White Lady. On August 1, Mina and Lucy meet some old people w... | Notes There is an entire change of scenario in this chapter. Mina goes to a very lovely village in England called Whitby. She is enchanted by the village but misses Jonathan whom she has not heard of. She has received one of Jonathans letters dictated by Dracula of his return. This chapter also digresses abruptly to Dr... | 240 | 114 |
345 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/34.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Dracula/section_6_part_0.txt | Dracula.chapter 7 | chapter 7 | null | {"name": "Chapter 7", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820041120/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmDracula14.asp", "summary": "A paper cutting of a news column is pasted on Minas journal. It reports of a great storm, which struck the seas. A foreign schooner with all sails set docked in the stor... |
From a Correspondent.
_Whitby_.
One of the greatest and suddenest storms on record has just been
experienced here, with results both strange and unique. The weather had
been somewhat sultry, but not to any degree uncommon in the month of
August. Saturday evening was as fine as was ever known, and the great
body of h... | 5,877 | Chapter 7 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820041120/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmDracula14.asp | A paper cutting of a news column is pasted on Minas journal. It reports of a great storm, which struck the seas. A foreign schooner with all sails set docked in the storm almost unscrewed. A strange fog set in which prevented any clear sight. As the fog melted in the light of a searchlight a corpse was sighted in the s... | Notes This chapter tells about a strange ship. Again the author has strange ship. Again the author has deliberately digressed from the point what connection does a ship have with Dracula until an obscure statement of a tall thin man comes to the fore. Of course it is Dracula who has preyed on the ship. His abilities, a... | 222 | 136 |
345 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/35.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Dracula/section_7_part_0.txt | Dracula.chapter 8 | chapter 8 | null | {"name": "Chapter 8", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820041120/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmDracula15.asp", "summary": "Mina continues to note in her diary that though it is a normal day, Mina is worried about Jonathan. On August 11, at 3 a.m., Mina gets up in the dark when she realizes L... |
_Same day, 11 o'clock p. m._--Oh, but I am tired! If it were not that I
had made my diary a duty I should not open it to-night. We had a lovely
walk. Lucy, after a while, was in gay spirits, owing, I think, to some
dear cows who came nosing towards us in a field close to the lighthouse,
and frightened the wits out of... | 6,093 | Chapter 8 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820041120/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmDracula15.asp | Mina continues to note in her diary that though it is a normal day, Mina is worried about Jonathan. On August 11, at 3 a.m., Mina gets up in the dark when she realizes Lucy is missing. Lucy has sleepwalked in her nightdress. Mina rushes outside and in the moonlight sees Lucy on their favorite seat. For a moment it look... | Notes Dracula has arrived in England. His preys Lucy and Renfield announce his arrivals. Their symptoms are similar Lucy of course has been bitten by Dracula while Renfield is a follower. There is news of Jonathan at last. The reader is relieved to note that he is alive though sick and has escaped from the clutches of ... | 174 | 67 |
345 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/36.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Dracula/section_8_part_0.txt | Dracula.chapter 9 | chapter 9 | null | {"name": "Chapter 9", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820041120/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmDracula16.asp", "summary": "This chapter is again a series of letters. The first is from Mina to Lucy, who writes on 24th August from Budapest. She tells about an ailing Jonathan who tells of a ter... |
"My dearest Lucy,--
"I know you will be anxious to hear all that has happened since we
parted at the railway station at Whitby. Well, my dear, I got to Hull
all right, and caught the boat to Hamburg, and then the train on here. I
feel that I can hardly recall anything of the journey, except that I
knew I was coming t... | 5,717 | Chapter 9 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820041120/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmDracula16.asp | This chapter is again a series of letters. The first is from Mina to Lucy, who writes on 24th August from Budapest. She tells about an ailing Jonathan who tells of a terrible tale. He hands his diary to Mina who keeps it carefully. They get married in the hospital itself. Lucy writes back and congratulates Mina and tel... | Notes This chapter now takes a serious turn with Lucy falling very sick. Dracula, so it is revealed has sucked her almost bloodless. Renfield too suffers in his own way. Dr. Seward, as some critics point out, is seen to be very cruel in his treatment of Renfield, as he experiments, on Renfield almost like a guinea pig.... | 185 | 121 |
345 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/37.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Dracula/section_9_part_0.txt | Dracula.chapter 10 | chapter 10 | null | {"name": "Chapter 10", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820041120/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmDracula17.asp", "summary": "This chapter starts with a letter, dated September 6, to Arthur Holmwood from Dr. Seward. It tells about Lucys downward slide in health. Abraham Van Helsing has returne... |
"_6 September._
"My dear Art,--
"My news to-day is not so good. Lucy this morning had gone back a bit.
There is, however, one good thing which has arisen from it; Mrs.
Westenra was naturally anxious concerning Lucy, and has consulted me
professionally about her. I took advantage of the opportunity, and told
her that... | 5,513 | Chapter 10 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820041120/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmDracula17.asp | This chapter starts with a letter, dated September 6, to Arthur Holmwood from Dr. Seward. It tells about Lucys downward slide in health. Abraham Van Helsing has returned to see her. Dr. Seward records in his diary that how he recounts Lucys symptoms to the Professor. The Professor looks grave. He sees her and is appall... | Notes This chapter dwells on Lucy. Dracula bit Lucy earlier; the aftermath of the bites is described. She has been shorn of every drop of blood and so has to be given blood by Arthur and Dr. Seward. Blood symbolizes ties almost akin to marriage. She has received blood from Arthur, Dr. Seward, Quincey Morris, and Van He... | 231 | 246 |
345 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/38.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Dracula/section_10_part_0.txt | Dracula.chapter 11 | chapter 11 | null | {"name": "Chapter 11", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820041120/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmDracula18.asp", "summary": "Lucy records in her journal that she feels she can sleep better. Dr. Seward diary records how Mrs. Westenra tells the professor that Lucy is bitter but because she has ... |
_12 September._--How good they all are to me. I quite love that dear Dr.
Van Helsing. I wonder why he was so anxious about these flowers. He
positively frightened me, he was so fierce. And yet he must have been
right, for I feel comfort from them already. Somehow, I do not dread
being alone to-night, and I can go to s... | 4,746 | Chapter 11 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820041120/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmDracula18.asp | Lucy records in her journal that she feels she can sleep better. Dr. Seward diary records how Mrs. Westenra tells the professor that Lucy is bitter but because she has opened the windows and removed the garlic. Professor rushes up, Lucy looks bloodless again. He gives her blood. He also tells Mrs. Westenra not to remov... | Notes The wolf appears in two sections in this chapter. The inference is that it is a follower of Dracula, or Dracula himself can change into an animal at his own will. Van Helsing has left Lucy unguarded just for one night but that very night Dracula strikes. Except for the scant protection of the garlics, she is tota... | 210 | 91 |
345 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/39.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Dracula/section_11_part_0.txt | Dracula.chapter 12 | chapter 12 | null | {"name": "Chapter 12", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820041120/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmDracula19.asp", "summary": "Dr. Seward's diary continues to note that, on 18 th of September, Van Helsing and Dr. Seward rush up to find Mrs. Westenra dead, and Lucy barely alive. The maids have a... |
_18 September._--I drove at once to Hillingham and arrived early.
Keeping my cab at the gate, I went up the avenue alone. I knocked gently
and rang as quietly as possible, for I feared to disturb Lucy or her
mother, and hoped to only bring a servant to the door. After a while,
finding no response, I knocked and rang a... | 6,737 | Chapter 12 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820041120/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmDracula19.asp | Dr. Seward's diary continues to note that, on 18 th of September, Van Helsing and Dr. Seward rush up to find Mrs. Westenra dead, and Lucy barely alive. The maids have all fainted. Quincey Morris enters and he gives blood to her. Arthur is informed about Mrs. Westenras death for the first time. Van Helsing tells Dr. Sew... | Notes This chapter is very somber in tone. Lucy is dead and all the men who had loved her are at her bedside. Renfield keeps on running to the house next door, which should have pointed out something suspicious, at least, to Dr. Seward, who is keeping him under minute observation. Yet he fails to be suspicious. This is... | 136 | 62 |
345 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/40.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Dracula/section_12_part_0.txt | Dracula.chapter 13 | chapter 13 | null | {"name": "Chapter 13", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820041120/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmDracula20.asp", "summary": "Lucys funeral is arranged. According to legal matters, as both Lucy and Mrs. Westenra die, bereft of heir, the estate passes to Arthur. Van Helsing wants to perform an ... |
The funeral was arranged for the next succeeding day, so that Lucy and
her mother might be buried together. I attended to all the ghastly
formalities, and the urbane undertaker proved that his staff were
afflicted--or blessed--with something of his own obsequious suavity.
Even the woman who performed the last offices ... | 6,267 | Chapter 13 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820041120/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmDracula20.asp | Lucys funeral is arranged. According to legal matters, as both Lucy and Mrs. Westenra die, bereft of heir, the estate passes to Arthur. Van Helsing wants to perform an operation on Lucy the next morning. He puts a crucifix on the coffin but the very next morning the crucifix disappears. In the meantime, Jonathan sees D... | Notes Lucy is dead almost ten days before her marriage. She has become one of Draculas. The inference is 1) The crucifix, which Van Helsing has left on her coffin, has disappeared. 2) A strange woman was preying on small children. As it is seen in the next few chapters, Lucy has become an Un- dead. Jonathan sees a youn... | 74 | 83 |
345 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/41.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Dracula/section_13_part_0.txt | Dracula.chapter 14 | chapter 14 | null | {"name": "Chapter 14", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820041120/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmDracula21.asp", "summary": "Minas journal continues to note. Jonathan is in a poor state of mind. Van Helsing writes a letter asking Mina to meet him regarding Lucy. She meets him and then tells a... |
_23 September_.--Jonathan is better after a bad night. I am so glad that
he has plenty of work to do, for that keeps his mind off the terrible
things; and oh, I am rejoiced that he is not now weighed down with the
responsibility of his new position. I knew he would be true to himself,
and now how proud I am to see my ... | 5,963 | Chapter 14 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820041120/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmDracula21.asp | Minas journal continues to note. Jonathan is in a poor state of mind. Van Helsing writes a letter asking Mina to meet him regarding Lucy. She meets him and then tells about Jonathan tale and gives him Jonathans diary. Van Helsing writes back that whatever Jonathan has seen is true. Jonathan is rejuvenated. Dr. Seward s... | Notes Dr. Seward still cannot make out how Lucy died. Van Helsing has given him immense clues yet Dr. Seward refuses to take it. It is very strange that a man who is such a keen observer still cannot see the facts so close to him. This is an essential part of his character. Jonathan is a new man. He realizes he is not ... | 80 | 92 |
345 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/42.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Dracula/section_14_part_0.txt | Dracula.chapter 15 | chapter 15 | null | {"name": "Chapter 15", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820041120/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmDracula22.asp", "summary": "Dr. Seward continues to note in his diary. He is enraged that Lucy could be the woman in black who attacks children. They examine the child who is attacked by the lady ... |
For a while sheer anger mastered me; it was as if he had during her life
struck Lucy on the face. I smote the table hard and rose up as I said to
him:--
"Dr. Van Helsing, are you mad?" He raised his head and looked at me, and
somehow the tenderness of his face calmed me at once. "Would I were!" he
said. "Madness were... | 5,398 | Chapter 15 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820041120/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmDracula22.asp | Dr. Seward continues to note in his diary. He is enraged that Lucy could be the woman in black who attacks children. They examine the child who is attacked by the lady in black. He has similar pinpoints on his throat. Dr. Seward and the Professor go to the churchyard where Lucy is buried. Her coffin is empty. The child... | Notes Lucy has been bitten by a Vampire. Of course, later in the book, one knows it is Dracula but for now he is being termed as just as the vampire. There is a dual life to all this. Lucy is dead yet still Un-dead because in the night she becomes a vampire preying on children. Lucy is still different, as there is no m... | 137 | 101 |
345 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/43.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Dracula/section_15_part_0.txt | Dracula.chapter 16 | chapter 16 | null | {"name": "Chapter 16", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820041120/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmDracula23.asp", "summary": "At midnight, the land of Dr. Seward, Van Helsing, Arthur and holy hosts on the tomb of Lucy when they see a white figure with a child Quincey Morris proceed the graveya... |
It was just a quarter before twelve o'clock when we got into the
churchyard over the low wall. The night was dark with occasional gleams
of moonlight between the rents of the heavy clouds that scudded across
the sky. We all kept somehow close together, with Van Helsing slightly
in front as he led the way. When we had... | 4,222 | Chapter 16 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820041120/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmDracula23.asp | At midnight, the land of Dr. Seward, Van Helsing, Arthur and holy hosts on the tomb of Lucy when they see a white figure with a child Quincey Morris proceed the graveyard to open the coffin. The coffin was empty. Van Helsing explains the strange happenings to the others. They put the holy hosts on the tomb of Lucy and ... | Notes The most crucifixes are all signs of the deep-rooted Christianity prevalent in England at that time. They were said to be so powerful that they would destroy all evil in the world. Lucy has evidently become a thing in the clan of the Un-dead, and the very men who were in love with her hate her. They all help in k... | 127 | 89 |
345 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/44.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Dracula/section_16_part_0.txt | Dracula.chapter 17 | chapter 17 | null | {"name": "Chapter 17", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820041120/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmDracula24.asp", "summary": "Dr. Seward continues to note in his diary. Mina Harker telegrams that she is coming by train and she has important news. Van Helsing, who is a great admirer of her, is ... |
When we arrived at the Berkeley Hotel, Van Helsing found a telegram
waiting for him:--
"Am coming up by train. Jonathan at Whitby. Important news.--MINA
HARKER."
The Professor was delighted. "Ah, that wonderful Madam Mina," he said,
"pearl among women! She arrive, but I cannot stay. She must go to your
ho... | 5,422 | Chapter 17 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820041120/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmDracula24.asp | Dr. Seward continues to note in his diary. Mina Harker telegrams that she is coming by train and she has important news. Van Helsing, who is a great admirer of her, is delighted. She arrives and stays in the asylum. Dr. Seward shows her his phonograph, and she is fascinated by it. She tells them that Jonathan has seen ... | Notes The band is set. All the men arrive and the pursuit has begun. Jonathan knows the next door house is Draculas as he has conducted the sale of purchase of the estate. The others, Dr. Seward and the Professor help and systematically make details of the facts present. Quincey Morris and Arthur also help in uncoverin... | 108 | 72 |
345 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/45.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Dracula/section_17_part_0.txt | Dracula.chapter 18 | chapter 18 | null | {"name": "Chapter 18", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820041120/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmDracula25.asp", "summary": "Dr. Seward's diary continues to record. He goes over the transcripts of the diaries and letters of Jonathan and Mina Harker. Mina comes into the room and asks to see Re... |
_30 September._--I got home at five o'clock, and found that Godalming
and Morris had not only arrived, but had already studied the transcript
of the various diaries and letters which Harker and his wonderful wife
had made and arranged. Harker had not yet returned from his visit to the
carriers' men, of whom Dr. Henne... | 6,359 | Chapter 18 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820041120/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmDracula25.asp | Dr. Seward's diary continues to record. He goes over the transcripts of the diaries and letters of Jonathan and Mina Harker. Mina comes into the room and asks to see Renfield. Renfield talks to her like a polished gentleman. Van Helsing enters eager to know the results of the pursuit of Dracula. They discuss way and me... | Notes The brave band of men is in hot pursuit of Dracula. The vampire is much stronger than they are. He is more cunning than any mortal with the strength of twenty men is. He is ageless. His shrewd acumen has been honed over the ages. He can take any form and is a devil at heart. He can command the rat, owl, wolves, o... | 96 | 87 |
345 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/46.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Dracula/section_18_part_0.txt | Dracula.chapter 19 | chapter 19 | null | {"name": "Chapter 19", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820041120/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmDracula26.asp", "summary": "Jonathan Harkers diary starts, with a portion of the sacred wafer each; they try and enter Draculas house in Whitby. The whole place is covered with dust and spiders. T... |
_1 October, 5 a. m._--I went with the party to the search with an easy
mind, for I think I never saw Mina so absolutely strong and well. I am
so glad that she consented to hold back and let us men do the work.
Somehow, it was a dread to me that she was in this fearful business at
all; but now that her work is done, an... | 5,301 | Chapter 19 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820041120/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmDracula26.asp | Jonathan Harkers diary starts, with a portion of the sacred wafer each; they try and enter Draculas house in Whitby. The whole place is covered with dust and spiders. There is a faint bad odor. They find 29 boxes out of the 50 sent by Dracula. Suddenly, the whole place is filled with rats. Arthur whistles for his dogs ... | Notes Dracula has claimed another of the woman of the band of Mina Harker. In this chapter, it is not clear if the reader recalls that she suffers from the same symptoms as Lucy. In the meantime, the band has achieved success on one count. They have managed to seal off the house of Dracula with the sacred wafer. | 94 | 59 |
345 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/47.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Dracula/section_19_part_0.txt | Dracula.chapter 20 | chapter 20 | null | {"name": "Chapter 20", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820041120/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmDracula27.asp", "summary": "On October 1, Jonathan notes, in his journal, of his pursuit of the other houses of Dracula. A man named Thomas Snelling leads him to Joseph Smollet, who tells him the ... |
_1 October, evening._--I found Thomas Snelling in his house at Bethnal
Green, but unhappily he was not in a condition to remember anything. The
very prospect of beer which my expected coming had opened to him had
proved too much, and he had begun too early on his expected debauch. I
learned, however, from his wife, wh... | 5,531 | Chapter 20 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820041120/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmDracula27.asp | On October 1, Jonathan notes, in his journal, of his pursuit of the other houses of Dracula. A man named Thomas Snelling leads him to Joseph Smollet, who tells him the destination of the boxes to the houses in Carfax, New Town and Bermondsey. They go pursuing the addresses. Mina, in the meantime still looks very tired.... | Notes The band is catching up with Dracula. They want to pursue him and erase all signs of him from England. In the next chapter, the reader realizes how the pursuit of these men was really bothering Dracula that he has to leave town and go back to Transylvania, but not before he seeks vengeance on them by biting Mina. | 91 | 60 |
345 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/48.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Dracula/section_20_part_0.txt | Dracula.chapter 21 | chapter 21 | null | {"name": "Chapter 21", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820041120/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmDracula28.asp", "summary": "Dr. Seward records that Renfield's back has been broken. He is in deep anguish and is dying. He tells them that Dracula has come from the window and has struck him. But... |
_3 October._--Let me put down with exactness all that happened, as well
as I can remember it, since last I made an entry. Not a detail that I
can recall must be forgotten; in all calmness I must proceed.
When I came to Renfield's room I found him lying on the floor on his
left side in a glittering pool of blood. Whe... | 5,685 | Chapter 21 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820041120/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmDracula28.asp | Dr. Seward records that Renfield's back has been broken. He is in deep anguish and is dying. He tells them that Dracula has come from the window and has struck him. But he also divulges he has attacked Mina. The band rushes in to the Harkers chamber and finds Jonathan in a stupor, and Mina sucking the blood of Dracula... | Notes Nowhere in the book does one get to see Dracula in action sucking blood. There are inferences but no direct action. Its the first time that Dracula has been caught in action. The sucking of blood signifies oneness so that Mina becomes something akin to a wife to Dracula. That makes Mina a common wife to both Drac... | 121 | 89 |
345 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/49.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Dracula/section_21_part_0.txt | Dracula.chapter 22 | chapter 22 | null | {"name": "Chapter 22", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820041120/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmDracula29.asp", "summary": "Jonathan Harker continues to write his journal. He tries to make himself busy, or he feels he will go mad. Van Helsing tries to talk to Mina and console her. He tells h... |
_3 October._--As I must do something or go mad, I write this diary. It
is now six o'clock, and we are to meet in the study in half an hour and
take something to eat; for Dr. Van Helsing and Dr. Seward are agreed
that if we do not eat we cannot work our best. Our best will be, God
knows, required to-day. I must keep w... | 5,058 | Chapter 22 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820041120/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmDracula29.asp | Jonathan Harker continues to write his journal. He tries to make himself busy, or he feels he will go mad. Van Helsing tries to talk to Mina and console her. He tells her to be strong and resist being an Un-dead. Van Helsing puts the wafer on Minas head. She gives an agonizing yell and the wafer makes a mark on her for... | Notes The Devil signifies everything bad and evil and the holy wafer signified the body of Christ. The author uses these Christian streams of thought continuously in the book, giving it superhuman powers. If Dracula had superhuman powers then the host would stand as a power against it. This chapter continues with the p... | 81 | 56 |
345 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/50.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Dracula/section_22_part_0.txt | Dracula.chapter 23 | chapter 23 | null | {"name": "Chapter 23", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820041120/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmDracula30.asp", "summary": "Dr. Sewards diary continues to record the happenings. On the 3rd October, he tells about the appalling changes in Jonathan. Minas plight has made him haggard and desola... |
_3 October._--The time seemed terrible long whilst we were waiting for
the coming of Godalming and Quincey Morris. The Professor tried to keep
our minds active by using them all the time. I could see his beneficent
purpose, by the side glances which he threw from time to time at Harker.
The poor fellow is overwhelmed... | 5,271 | Chapter 23 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820041120/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmDracula30.asp | Dr. Sewards diary continues to record the happenings. On the 3rd October, he tells about the appalling changes in Jonathan. Minas plight has made him haggard and desolate. Quincey Morris and Arthur come in and report that they have destroyed the other boxes. Dracula is at Carfax. He leaps out saying, "All your girls ar... | Notes Again the Dracula comes face to face with the band. They have destroyed his houses, his boxes, but he claims to have the upper hand because he has got their girls. They have to pursue him before Mina becomes an Un-dead, as she is merely mortal for she will die but Dracula will live. | 105 | 55 |
345 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/51.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Dracula/section_23_part_0.txt | Dracula.chapter 24 | chapter 24 | null | {"name": "Chapter 24", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820041120/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmDracula31.asp", "summary": "Dr. Sewards gives strict instructions, through Van Helsing, to Jonathan telling him to stay with Mina. Count Dracula, he informs, has gone back to Transylvania as the b... |
This to Jonathan Harker.
You are to stay with your dear Madam Mina. We shall go to make our
search--if I can call it so, for it is not search but knowing, and we
seek confirmation only. But do you stay and take care of her to-day.
This is your best and most holiest office. This day nothing can find him
here. Let me t... | 6,020 | Chapter 24 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820041120/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmDracula31.asp | Dr. Sewards gives strict instructions, through Van Helsing, to Jonathan telling him to stay with Mina. Count Dracula, he informs, has gone back to Transylvania as the band has destroyed his last box so thats why he has been forced to flee. He has gone by ship but Van Helsing assures him that the battle has just begun a... | Notes In this chapter, the chase is still on but this time this is being done with intensity, especially since Mina is in danger of being changed. Despite her will power, she is under going changes. The host signifying the body of Christ is being used as a weapon to fight Satan. It has already burnt a red mark on the f... | 185 | 102 |
345 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/52.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Dracula/section_24_part_0.txt | Dracula.chapter 25 | chapter 25 | null | {"name": "Chapter 25", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820041120/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmDracula32.asp", "summary": "On 11th of October, according to Dr. Sewards Diary, Jonathan asks Dr. Seward to check Minas health. Mina begs them to destroy her if by chance she changes totally. Fill... |
_11 October, Evening._--Jonathan Harker has asked me to note this, as he
says he is hardly equal to the task, and he wants an exact record kept.
I think that none of us were surprised when we were asked to see Mrs.
Harker a little before the time of sunset. We have of late come to
understand that sunrise and sunset a... | 6,050 | Chapter 25 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820041120/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmDracula32.asp | On 11th of October, according to Dr. Sewards Diary, Jonathan asks Dr. Seward to check Minas health. Mina begs them to destroy her if by chance she changes totally. Filled with emotion, yet touched by her bravery, the men agree. On 15th of October, according to Jonathans journal, they leave Charring Cross on the 12 th ,... | Notes The chase is in full speed. Draculas character is discussed by the men. Dracula, they claim is a criminal and he is selfish. His intellect is small and his actions are based on selfishness. So he confines himself to one purpose. He had come to London to invade a new land. He was beaten and when all hope of succes... | 105 | 109 |
345 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/53.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Dracula/section_25_part_0.txt | Dracula.chapter 26 | chapter 26 | null | {"name": "Chapter 26", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820041120/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmDracula33.asp", "summary": "Dr. Sewards continues to note in his diary. On 29 th of October, he writes this note on the train from Varna to Galats. Mina is hypnotized again and reveals that the Co... |
_29 October._--This is written in the train from Varna to Galatz. Last
night we all assembled a little before the time of sunset. Each of us
had done his work as well as he could; so far as thought, and endeavour,
and opportunity go, we are prepared for the whole of our journey, and
for our work when we get to Galatz... | 7,004 | Chapter 26 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820041120/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmDracula33.asp | Dr. Sewards continues to note in his diary. On 29 th of October, he writes this note on the train from Varna to Galats. Mina is hypnotized again and reveals that the Count has reached. However, she is changing so he becomes sullen and refuses to speak. The captain of the ship reveals to Jonathan that there was trouble ... | Notes Dracula senses that the band is following him. If they can hypnotize Mina and sense where Dracula is, Dracula can read her mind on the basis of their blood kinship. Mina may be under the influence of Dracula yet she is still well poised to plot out a detailed list of his movement, which is very adroitly done. In ... | 143 | 98 |
345 | false | pinkmonkey | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/54.txt | finished_summaries/pinkmonkey/Dracula/section_26_part_0.txt | Dracula.chapter 27 | chapter 27 | null | {"name": "Chapter 27", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20180820041120/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmDracula34.asp", "summary": "In her journal of 1st November, Mina records that the women in the village makes the sign of the cross each time they see Mina, because of the red scar on her forehead.... |
_1 November._--All day long we have travelled, and at a good speed. The
horses seem to know that they are being kindly treated, for they go
willingly their full stage at best speed. We have now had so many
changes and find the same thing so constantly that we are encouraged to
think that the journey will be an easy on... | 7,123 | Chapter 27 | https://web.archive.org/web/20180820041120/http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monkeynotes/pmDracula34.asp | In her journal of 1st November, Mina records that the women in the village makes the sign of the cross each time they see Mina, because of the red scar on her forehead. She has decided to wear a veil in order to avoid that. Van Helsing is worried about Mina because not only she cannot be hypnotized but also because she... | Notes This chapter is the final climax in which the last battle takes place. There is plenty of action in this chapter from the holy ring around Mina, to the women vampires, who are vanquished by Van Helsing. Dracula is killed but, unfortunately, Quincey Morris also dies. The ring around Mina symbolizes God and is a we... | 265 | 190 |
345 | false | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/28.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Dracula/section_1_part_0.txt | Dracula.chapter 1 | chapter 1 | null | {"name": "Chapter 1", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210215030733/https://www.novelguide.com/dracula/summaries/chapter1", "summary": "Jonathan Harker, a newly minted English solicitor , travels to Transylvania in order to consult with an aristocratic client, Count Dracula, regarding the nobleman's recent purchas... |
_3 May. Bistritz._--Left Munich at 8:35 P. M., on 1st May, arriving at
Vienna early next morning; should have arrived at 6:46, but train was an
hour late. Buda-Pesth seems a wonderful place, from the glimpse which I
got of it from the train and the little I could walk through the
streets. I feared to go very far from ... | 5,306 | Chapter 1 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210215030733/https://www.novelguide.com/dracula/summaries/chapter1 | Jonathan Harker, a newly minted English solicitor , travels to Transylvania in order to consult with an aristocratic client, Count Dracula, regarding the nobleman's recent purchase of an English estate. At various stages along his journey, the people he encounters regard him with a mixture of fear and sympathy somehow ... | As the dedicatory note makes clear, Stoker crafts his tale as an epistolary novel, a "novel told through the medium of letters written by one or more of the characters... he epistolary novel was one of the earliest forms of novel to be developed. It remained one of the most popular up to the 19th century. The epistola... | 217 | 476 |
345 | false | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/29.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Dracula/section_2_part_0.txt | Dracula.chapter 2 | chapter 2 | null | {"name": "Chapter 2", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210215030733/https://www.novelguide.com/dracula/summaries/chapter2", "summary": "Count Dracula greets Harker at the massive doors to the castle. Dracula is \"a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and claid in black from head to foot, wi... |
_5 May._--I must have been asleep, for certainly if I had been fully
awake I must have noticed the approach of such a remarkable place. In
the gloom the courtyard looked of considerable size, and as several dark
ways led from it under great round arches, it perhaps seemed bigger than
it really is. I have not yet been... | 5,111 | Chapter 2 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210215030733/https://www.novelguide.com/dracula/summaries/chapter2 | Count Dracula greets Harker at the massive doors to the castle. Dracula is "a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and claid in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere." Dracula shows Harker to his rooms and converses with his guest as he eats; Dracula excuses... | Although Stoker's titular character has already appeared in the previous chapter , it is with this chapter that Dracula truly makes his grand entrance . Stoker's detailed description of the Count agrees with numerous details of vampire lore: great strength, sharp teeth, essentially colorless save for bright red lips, p... | 365 | 642 |
345 | false | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/30.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Dracula/section_3_part_0.txt | Dracula.chapter 3 | chapter 3 | null | {"name": "Chapter 3", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210215030733/https://www.novelguide.com/dracula/summaries/chapter3", "summary": "Harker continues to feel trapped in Castle Dracula. He spies Dracula making Harker's bed, confirming Harker's suspicion that he and Dracula are the only people in the castle; ther... |
When I found that I was a prisoner a sort of wild feeling came over me.
I rushed up and down the stairs, trying every door and peering out of
every window I could find; but after a little the conviction of my
helplessness overpowered all other feelings. When I look back after a
few hours I think I must have been mad f... | 5,442 | Chapter 3 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210215030733/https://www.novelguide.com/dracula/summaries/chapter3 | Harker continues to feel trapped in Castle Dracula. He spies Dracula making Harker's bed, confirming Harker's suspicion that he and Dracula are the only people in the castle; there are no servants. The next night, Harker has another long, late conversation with Dracula, in which the Count relates something of his famil... | Chapter 3 is one of the most famous and memorable chapters in the novel, not only for its striking image of Dracula scaling his castle's walls in a lizard-lik fashion but also and especially for the episode involving Dracula's brides . Leonard Wolf writes, "Probably everyone who has ever read Dracula would like to know... | 423 | 550 |
345 | false | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/31.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Dracula/section_4_part_0.txt | Dracula.chapter 4 | chapter 4 | null | {"name": "Chapter 4", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210215030733/https://www.novelguide.com/dracula/summaries/chapter4", "summary": "Harker awakens in his own bed, and surmises that Dracula himself has carried him back. A few days later, Dracula asks Harker to write three letters, each one dated a few days apar... |
I awoke in my own bed. If it be that I had not dreamt, the Count must
have carried me here. I tried to satisfy myself on the subject, but
could not arrive at any unquestionable result. To be sure, there were
certain small evidences, such as that my clothes were folded and laid by
in a manner which was not my habit. My... | 5,815 | Chapter 4 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210215030733/https://www.novelguide.com/dracula/summaries/chapter4 | Harker awakens in his own bed, and surmises that Dracula himself has carried him back. A few days later, Dracula asks Harker to write three letters, each one dated a few days apart, indicating that Harker is returning to England. Harker fears the letters to be some sort of ruse to convince those who know him that he st... | This chapter is the last, for the time being, to be related from Harker's point of view. Before leaving his journal, however, we learn more of vampiric ways. For the first time, we see blood on Dracula's lips--the blood of a second child whom he has abducted . That Dracula feasts on children, of course, makes him an es... | 520 | 285 |
345 | false | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/32.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Dracula/section_5_part_0.txt | Dracula.chapter 5 | chapter 5 | null | {"name": "Chapter 5", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210215030733/https://www.novelguide.com/dracula/summaries/chapter5", "summary": "In May, as the end of another academic term nears, Miss Mina Murray, an assistant schoolmistress and the fiance of Jonathan Harker, writes to her close friend Lucy Westenra, inqu... |
"_9 May._
"My dearest Lucy,--
"Forgive my long delay in writing, but I have been simply overwhelmed
with work. The life of an assistant schoolmistress is sometimes trying.
I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together
freely and build our castles in the air. I have been working very hard
l... | 3,253 | Chapter 5 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210215030733/https://www.novelguide.com/dracula/summaries/chapter5 | In May, as the end of another academic term nears, Miss Mina Murray, an assistant schoolmistress and the fiance of Jonathan Harker, writes to her close friend Lucy Westenra, inquiring in her postscript about "rumours... of a tall, handsome, curly-haired man." Lucy writes back to tell Mina about this gentleman, one Mr.... | Leaving the solitary, isolated Harker for the time being, Stoker shifts in this chapter to two perspectives that highlight friendship: Mina and Lucy, two young women--Mina, slightly older and already engaged; Lucy, younger, more effusive and coquettish and now newly engaged--and Holmwood, Morris and Seward, whose relat... | 221 | 806 |
345 | false | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/33.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Dracula/section_6_part_0.txt | Dracula.chapter 6 | chapter 6 | null | {"name": "Chapter 6", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210215030733/https://www.novelguide.com/dracula/summaries/chapter6", "summary": "Having continued his observations of and conversations with Renfield over a course of nearly three months, Dr. Seward comes to the conclusion that his patient is a \"homicidal man... |
_24 July. Whitby._--Lucy met me at the station, looking sweeter and
lovelier than ever, and we drove up to the house at the Crescent in
which they have rooms. This is a lovely place. The little river, the
Esk, runs through a deep valley, which broadens out as it comes near the
harbour. A great viaduct runs across, wit... | 5,630 | Chapter 6 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210215030733/https://www.novelguide.com/dracula/summaries/chapter6 | Having continued his observations of and conversations with Renfield over a course of nearly three months, Dr. Seward comes to the conclusion that his patient is a "homicidal maniac," but "of a peculiar kind." He classifies Renfield as a "zoophagous maniac," who is trying to take into himself as much life as possible ... | Fascinated with Renfield's "zoophagous" behavior, Seward sees in the case a chance to unlock secrets of the mind and advance his science--and, readers cannot help but suspect, his own reputation. Seward's specific mentions of Burdon-Sanderson and James Frederick Ferrier give us a glimpse of Seward's ambition, and per... | 356 | 930 |
345 | false | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/34.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Dracula/section_7_part_0.txt | Dracula.chapter 7 | chapter 7 | null | {"name": "Chapter 7", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210215030733/https://www.novelguide.com/dracula/chapter7", "summary": "On the night of August 7-8, a terrific thunderstorm gathers and breaks over Whitby. During the height of the storm, a Russian schooner, the Demeter, speeds into the harbor, and is driven as... |
From a Correspondent.
_Whitby_.
One of the greatest and suddenest storms on record has just been
experienced here, with results both strange and unique. The weather had
been somewhat sultry, but not to any degree uncommon in the month of
August. Saturday evening was as fine as was ever known, and the great
body of h... | 5,877 | Chapter 7 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210215030733/https://www.novelguide.com/dracula/chapter7 | On the night of August 7-8, a terrific thunderstorm gathers and breaks over Whitby. During the height of the storm, a Russian schooner, the Demeter, speeds into the harbor, and is driven ashore seemingly by the force of the storm itself. Bizarrely, a corpse is lashed to the helm: "A great awe came on all as they realiz... | Stoker's vivid depiction of the storm at the beginning of the chapter contains some of his finest descriptive writing, language that reinforces his thematic concerns--for example: "asses of sea-fog came drifting inland--white, wet clouds, which swept by in a ghostly fashion, so dank and damp and cold that it needed but... | 383 | 997 |
345 | false | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/35.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Dracula/section_8_part_0.txt | Dracula.chapter 8 | chapter 8 | null | {"name": "Chapter 8", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210215030733/https://www.novelguide.com/dracula/summaries/chapter8", "summary": "Lucy continues to suffer from sleepwalking episodes. In the early morning of August 11, she leaves the room, clad only in her lingerie, and makes her way down to the \"suicide sea... |
_Same day, 11 o'clock p. m._--Oh, but I am tired! If it were not that I
had made my diary a duty I should not open it to-night. We had a lovely
walk. Lucy, after a while, was in gay spirits, owing, I think, to some
dear cows who came nosing towards us in a field close to the lighthouse,
and frightened the wits out of... | 6,093 | Chapter 8 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210215030733/https://www.novelguide.com/dracula/summaries/chapter8 | Lucy continues to suffer from sleepwalking episodes. In the early morning of August 11, she leaves the room, clad only in her lingerie, and makes her way down to the "suicide seat." Mina awakens to find Lucy gone, and follows her. She catches a fleeting glimpse of some dark figure, "whether man or beast, could not tel... | Through Mina, Stoker pokes fun at the concept of the "new" woman. Leonard Wolf notes that the implied critique of feminism is ironic, given that Stoker's own mother "had spoken publicly in 1864 in Dublin for 'social welfare work and determined championing of the weaker sex'" . Biographical relevance aside, the phrase ... | 484 | 600 |
345 | false | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/36.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Dracula/section_9_part_0.txt | Dracula.chapter 9 | chapter 9 | null | {"name": "Chapter 9", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210215030733/https://www.novelguide.com/dracula/summaries/chapter9", "summary": "Mina makes her way to Hungary, where she finds Jonathan, still recovering in the hospital, \"only a wreck of himself. \" Nevertheless, the two are married there. Jonathan solemnly... |
"My dearest Lucy,--
"I know you will be anxious to hear all that has happened since we
parted at the railway station at Whitby. Well, my dear, I got to Hull
all right, and caught the boat to Hamburg, and then the train on here. I
feel that I can hardly recall anything of the journey, except that I
knew I was coming t... | 5,717 | Chapter 9 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210215030733/https://www.novelguide.com/dracula/summaries/chapter9 | Mina makes her way to Hungary, where she finds Jonathan, still recovering in the hospital, "only a wreck of himself. " Nevertheless, the two are married there. Jonathan solemnly implores Mina not to read the journal he kept ; Mina agrees, and seals the book with wax and her wedding ring as a sign of her intention not t... | This chapter again demonstrates Stoker's use of the technique of "interlacing" to advance his narrative. We read Lucy's letter of August 20 from Whitby in which she reports that she is "restored" and has "quite given up walking in sleep" --unsurprising, since Dracula has moved on from that seaside town--only to learn... | 405 | 543 |
345 | false | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/37.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Dracula/section_10_part_0.txt | Dracula.chapter 10 | chapter 10 | null | {"name": "Chapter 10", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210215030733/https://www.novelguide.com/dracula/summaries/chapter10", "summary": "Arriving in Lucy's room, Van Helsing and Seward are shocked to see how pale and weak she has become. Van Helsing prepares for an immediate blood transfusion. As he is getting re... |
"_6 September._
"My dear Art,--
"My news to-day is not so good. Lucy this morning had gone back a bit.
There is, however, one good thing which has arisen from it; Mrs.
Westenra was naturally anxious concerning Lucy, and has consulted me
professionally about her. I took advantage of the opportunity, and told
her that... | 5,513 | Chapter 10 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210215030733/https://www.novelguide.com/dracula/summaries/chapter10 | Arriving in Lucy's room, Van Helsing and Seward are shocked to see how pale and weak she has become. Van Helsing prepares for an immediate blood transfusion. As he is getting ready for the operation, Holmwood arrives; glad for his arrival, for Holmwood is young and full of life and much in love with Lucy, Van Helsing t... | This chapter proves to be one of the most dramatic in the novel so far--if also one of the more medically and scientifically impossible. As Leonard Wolf notes, "In real life the hugger-mugger blood transfusions... would almost certainly kill both donor and patient, since no effort is made by Van Helsing or Seward to ma... | 259 | 629 |
345 | false | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/38.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Dracula/section_11_part_0.txt | Dracula.chapter 11 | chapter 11 | null | {"name": "Chapter 11", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210215030733/https://www.novelguide.com/dracula/summaries/chapter11", "summary": "Seward and Van Helsing arrive at Lucy's home the morning of September 13 to find, much to Van Helsing's distress, that Lucy's mother, finding the smell of garlic in her daughter... |
_12 September._--How good they all are to me. I quite love that dear Dr.
Van Helsing. I wonder why he was so anxious about these flowers. He
positively frightened me, he was so fierce. And yet he must have been
right, for I feel comfort from them already. Somehow, I do not dread
being alone to-night, and I can go to s... | 4,746 | Chapter 11 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210215030733/https://www.novelguide.com/dracula/summaries/chapter11 | Seward and Van Helsing arrive at Lucy's home the morning of September 13 to find, much to Van Helsing's distress, that Lucy's mother, finding the smell of garlic in her daughter's room oppressive, removed the flowers from Lucy's neck while Lucy slept and also opened the bedroom window for fresh air. Finding Lucy again ... | Stoker again displays his ear for dialect as, in this chapter, he presents the Pall Mall Gazette reporter's interview with Thomas Bilder, keeper at the Zoological Gardens. More importantly, however, the zoo episode again demonstrates Count Dracula's connection with and mastery over wild animals. Stoker also again show... | 467 | 112 |
345 | false | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/39.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Dracula/section_12_part_0.txt | Dracula.chapter 12 | chapter 12 | null | {"name": "Chapter 12", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210215030733/https://www.novelguide.com/dracula/summaries/chapter12", "summary": "Seward and Van Helsing arrive at Hillingham, fearful of what they will find. They must force their way into the house, and inside they discover the unconscious maids, Lucy and h... |
_18 September._--I drove at once to Hillingham and arrived early.
Keeping my cab at the gate, I went up the avenue alone. I knocked gently
and rang as quietly as possible, for I feared to disturb Lucy or her
mother, and hoped to only bring a servant to the door. After a while,
finding no response, I knocked and rang a... | 6,737 | Chapter 12 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210215030733/https://www.novelguide.com/dracula/summaries/chapter12 | Seward and Van Helsing arrive at Hillingham, fearful of what they will find. They must force their way into the house, and inside they discover the unconscious maids, Lucy and her dead mother. The wounds on Lucy's bare neck have reappeared. Van Helsing concludes that the only remedy is yet another blood transfusion; fo... | In this chapter, Stoker continues to use chronological interlacing to great effect: note, for instance, Seward's impatience when the maids do not answer his ringing at the door--"I cursed the laziness of the servants that they should lie abed at such an hour" . His mental reproach reflects the attitudes some members of... | 471 | 395 |
345 | false | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/40.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Dracula/section_13_part_0.txt | Dracula.chapter 13 | chapter 13 | null | {"name": "Chapter 13", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210215030733/https://www.novelguide.com/dracula/summaries/chapter13", "summary": "Morticians prepare Lucy's corpse for its burial. Van Helsing makes his own ministrations to the body, placing garlic flowers and a crucifix on it. One of the family maids, howev... |
The funeral was arranged for the next succeeding day, so that Lucy and
her mother might be buried together. I attended to all the ghastly
formalities, and the urbane undertaker proved that his staff were
afflicted--or blessed--with something of his own obsequious suavity.
Even the woman who performed the last offices ... | 6,267 | Chapter 13 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210215030733/https://www.novelguide.com/dracula/summaries/chapter13 | Morticians prepare Lucy's corpse for its burial. Van Helsing makes his own ministrations to the body, placing garlic flowers and a crucifix on it. One of the family maids, however, steals the crucifix--although without being aware of her theft. Holmwood learns that Lucy's mother has left her entire estate to him . Van ... | As Leonard Wolf points out, there existed a "late nineteenth-century cult of female invalidism... in the notion that a dead woman is more beautiful than a living one" . More to the point of Stoker's novel, however, the repeated emphasis on Lucy's post-mortem beauty further stresses that she now occupies that liminal te... | 241 | 985 |
345 | false | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/41.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Dracula/section_14_part_0.txt | Dracula.chapter 14 | chapter 14 | null | {"name": "Chapter 14", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210215030733/https://www.novelguide.com/dracula/summaries/chapter14", "summary": "Mina reads Jonathan's journal, aghast at what her new husband suffered through--though whether it was reality or a fevered delusion, she knows not, until a letter from Van Helsi... |
_23 September_.--Jonathan is better after a bad night. I am so glad that
he has plenty of work to do, for that keeps his mind off the terrible
things; and oh, I am rejoiced that he is not now weighed down with the
responsibility of his new position. I knew he would be true to himself,
and now how proud I am to see my ... | 5,963 | Chapter 14 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210215030733/https://www.novelguide.com/dracula/summaries/chapter14 | Mina reads Jonathan's journal, aghast at what her new husband suffered through--though whether it was reality or a fevered delusion, she knows not, until a letter from Van Helsing leads her to fear Jonathan's ordeal actually took place. Van Helsing requests a meeting, with Mina grants. Van Helsing inquires about Lucy'... | Here, midway through Stoker's text, he begins to draw together in a more decisive way the two plots he has largely been developing separately: Jonathan Harker's encounter with Dracula and its aftermath, and Lucy Westenra's transformation into a vampire at Dracula's hands. It is a bridging chapter, and thus occupies a s... | 205 | 872 |
345 | false | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/42.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Dracula/section_15_part_0.txt | Dracula.chapter 15 | chapter 15 | null | {"name": "Chapter 15", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210215030733/https://www.novelguide.com/dracula/summaries/chapter15", "summary": "Van Helsing persuades Seward to accompany him to Lucy's grave. They go at midnight and discover her coffin empty. Also in the graveyard, they spy a child being pursued by some l... |
For a while sheer anger mastered me; it was as if he had during her life
struck Lucy on the face. I smote the table hard and rose up as I said to
him:--
"Dr. Van Helsing, are you mad?" He raised his head and looked at me, and
somehow the tenderness of his face calmed me at once. "Would I were!" he
said. "Madness were... | 5,398 | Chapter 15 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210215030733/https://www.novelguide.com/dracula/summaries/chapter15 | Van Helsing persuades Seward to accompany him to Lucy's grave. They go at midnight and discover her coffin empty. Also in the graveyard, they spy a child being pursued by some larger, darker figure. They find the child before its throat has been injured, and leave it by the side of the road, where a police offer locate... | Stoker begins to quicken the pace of his novel with this chapter. Van Helsing asks the rhetorical question of Seward, "Oh, my friend, why, think you, did I go so far around, why take so long to tell you so simple a thing?" . Although readers may have been tempted to ask themselves the same question, now we can see how ... | 276 | 205 |
345 | false | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/43.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Dracula/section_16_part_0.txt | Dracula.chapter 16 | chapter 16 | null | {"name": "Chapter 16", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210215030733/https://www.novelguide.com/dracula/summaries/chapter16", "summary": "Van Helsing and the men stealthily enter the churchyard shortly before midnight. They find Lucy's coffin again empty. Van Helsing relates to Arthur and Quincey what he and Sewar... |
It was just a quarter before twelve o'clock when we got into the
churchyard over the low wall. The night was dark with occasional gleams
of moonlight between the rents of the heavy clouds that scudded across
the sky. We all kept somehow close together, with Van Helsing slightly
in front as he led the way. When we had... | 4,222 | Chapter 16 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210215030733/https://www.novelguide.com/dracula/summaries/chapter16 | Van Helsing and the men stealthily enter the churchyard shortly before midnight. They find Lucy's coffin again empty. Van Helsing relates to Arthur and Quincey what he and Seward found on their previous two visits to Lucy's grave. He also relates that he visited the grave the previous day at sundown; he put garlic over... | This key chapter brings many of the erotic elements and associations of Stoker's text to the fore. The moment in which Arthur, directed by Van Helsing, hammers the stake through Lucy's heart is presented in such a way as to be a grim parody of the climax of sexual intercourse: "The Thing in the coffin writhed; and a hi... | 287 | 767 |
345 | false | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/44.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Dracula/section_17_part_0.txt | Dracula.chapter 17 | chapter 17 | null | {"name": "Chapter 17", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210215030733/https://www.novelguide.com/dracula/summaries/chapter17", "summary": "While Jonathan is in Whitby, tracing the progress of the fifty boxes of earth shipped aboard the Demeter, Mina goes to the asylum to meet Seward. She listens to the phonograph r... |
When we arrived at the Berkeley Hotel, Van Helsing found a telegram
waiting for him:--
"Am coming up by train. Jonathan at Whitby. Important news.--MINA
HARKER."
The Professor was delighted. "Ah, that wonderful Madam Mina," he said,
"pearl among women! She arrive, but I cannot stay. She must go to your
ho... | 5,422 | Chapter 17 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210215030733/https://www.novelguide.com/dracula/summaries/chapter17 | While Jonathan is in Whitby, tracing the progress of the fifty boxes of earth shipped aboard the Demeter, Mina goes to the asylum to meet Seward. She listens to the phonograph rolls of Seward's diary, in order to learn more about Lucy's death, while he reads her and her husband's diaries. Jonathan returns, having learn... | The brevity with which this chapter's action may be summarized belies its symbolic and thematic import. First, the chapter mirrors within the text what Stoker has, by his technique of chronological interlacing, been allowing readers outside of the text to do all along. As Mina tells Seward, "In this matter dates are ev... | 143 | 532 |
345 | false | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/45.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Dracula/section_18_part_0.txt | Dracula.chapter 18 | chapter 18 | null | {"name": "Chapter 18", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210215030733/https://www.novelguide.com/dracula/summaries/chapter18", "summary": "Mina asks Seward if she can meet Renfield. To Seward's surprise, Renfield converses at length with Mina in a calm, quite intelligent manner, professing to understand why he was ... |
_30 September._--I got home at five o'clock, and found that Godalming
and Morris had not only arrived, but had already studied the transcript
of the various diaries and letters which Harker and his wonderful wife
had made and arranged. Harker had not yet returned from his visit to the
carriers' men, of whom Dr. Henne... | 6,359 | Chapter 18 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210215030733/https://www.novelguide.com/dracula/summaries/chapter18 | Mina asks Seward if she can meet Renfield. To Seward's surprise, Renfield converses at length with Mina in a calm, quite intelligent manner, professing to understand why he was placed in Seward's asylum--"Why, I myself am an instance of a man who had a strange belief. " As Mina takes her leave, however, Renfield makes ... | In this chapter, Stoker establishes a connection between Mina and the only principal character with whom she is not already connected, Renfield. Readers can only presume that Renfield's two dark comments--his parting words to Mina and his appeal to be released from the asylum "for the sake of others" , warning Seward... | 217 | 599 |
345 | false | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/46.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Dracula/section_19_part_0.txt | Dracula.chapter 19 | chapter 19 | null | {"name": "Chapter 19", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210215030733/https://www.novelguide.com/dracula/summaries/chapter19", "summary": "On the night of September 30-October 1, the men investigate the chapel at Carfax, leaving Mina behind to sleep, all of them being agreed that it is best for Mina not to become ... |
_1 October, 5 a. m._--I went with the party to the search with an easy
mind, for I think I never saw Mina so absolutely strong and well. I am
so glad that she consented to hold back and let us men do the work.
Somehow, it was a dread to me that she was in this fearful business at
all; but now that her work is done, an... | 5,301 | Chapter 19 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210215030733/https://www.novelguide.com/dracula/summaries/chapter19 | On the night of September 30-October 1, the men investigate the chapel at Carfax, leaving Mina behind to sleep, all of them being agreed that it is best for Mina not to become involved in the quest to destroy Dracula, nor even to know all the specifics of their task. Van Helsing equips each of the men with a crucifix,... | Analysis: This chapter sounds one of the novel's important themes: the significance of duty. As we have heard Van Helsing state on previous occasions, it is man's good and proper duty to fight evil . Here again, as the men steel themselves to hunt down Dracula, Van Helsing encourages Seward, "Friend John, have no fear.... | 505 | 848 |
345 | false | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/47.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Dracula/section_20_part_0.txt | Dracula.chapter 20 | chapter 20 | null | {"name": "Chapter 20", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210215030733/https://www.novelguide.com/dracula/summaries/chapter20", "summary": "Harker continues his search for Dracula's earthen boxes. By bribing various manual laborers who worked with the boxes with money and alcohol, he discovers where several of the b... |
_1 October, evening._--I found Thomas Snelling in his house at Bethnal
Green, but unhappily he was not in a condition to remember anything. The
very prospect of beer which my expected coming had opened to him had
proved too much, and he had begun too early on his expected debauch. I
learned, however, from his wife, wh... | 5,531 | Chapter 20 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210215030733/https://www.novelguide.com/dracula/summaries/chapter20 | Harker continues his search for Dracula's earthen boxes. By bribing various manual laborers who worked with the boxes with money and alcohol, he discovers where several of the boxes have gone since their arrival at Carfax; most importantly, Harker learns that nine "main heavy" boxes were removed to a house in Piccadill... | Readers may be forgiven their frustration at Seward's apparent slowness to grasp the full gravity of the situation with Renfield. "His is a curious case indeed," the doctor comments, remarkably casually given the circumstances; "we must watch him to-night" . Seward intuits something of the close connection between Renf... | 286 | 345 |
345 | false | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/48.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Dracula/section_21_part_0.txt | Dracula.chapter 21 | chapter 21 | null | {"name": "Chapter 21", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210215030733/https://www.novelguide.com/dracula/summaries/chapter21", "summary": "On the night of October 2-3, Dracula visits Mina for the third consecutive night. He enters her room again as a mist, and induces a stupor in Jonathan, who is in the room with M... |
_3 October._--Let me put down with exactness all that happened, as well
as I can remember it, since last I made an entry. Not a detail that I
can recall must be forgotten; in all calmness I must proceed.
When I came to Renfield's room I found him lying on the floor on his
left side in a glittering pool of blood. Whe... | 5,685 | Chapter 21 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210215030733/https://www.novelguide.com/dracula/summaries/chapter21 | On the night of October 2-3, Dracula visits Mina for the third consecutive night. He enters her room again as a mist, and induces a stupor in Jonathan, who is in the room with Mina; she is unable to awaken her husband. Dracula drinks from Mina's neck, who finds herself unable to resist, then opens a vein in his chest a... | In this chapter we as readers notice how we are losing the straightforward chronological recounting of the action that we had so recently gained. The mutual decision of the men and Mina to keep things from each other here plays out some of its unfortunate consequences. Notice, for instance, how Mina is unsure whether t... | 226 | 439 |
345 | false | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/49.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Dracula/section_22_part_0.txt | Dracula.chapter 22 | chapter 22 | null | {"name": "Chapter 22", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210215030733/https://www.novelguide.com/dracula/summaries/chapter22", "summary": "Seward and Van Helsing report to the others that they found Renfield dead, his body bruised, his neck broken. The attendant outside Renfield's room heard at least one voice--he ... |
_3 October._--As I must do something or go mad, I write this diary. It
is now six o'clock, and we are to meet in the study in half an hour and
take something to eat; for Dr. Van Helsing and Dr. Seward are agreed
that if we do not eat we cannot work our best. Our best will be, God
knows, required to-day. I must keep w... | 5,058 | Chapter 22 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210215030733/https://www.novelguide.com/dracula/summaries/chapter22 | Seward and Van Helsing report to the others that they found Renfield dead, his body bruised, his neck broken. The attendant outside Renfield's room heard at least one voice--he was unsure if he heard two--before Renfield cried out "God!" repeatedly. Planning their next actions, the men agree to include Mina in their pl... | In this chapter, Van Helsing again sounds the theme of duty that he has sounded before--in this instance, as he attempts to dissuade Mina from her plans of suicide: "You must struggle and strive to live, though death would seem a boon unspeakable. You must fight Death himself... till this great evil be past" . On the s... | 330 | 682 |
345 | false | novelguide | all_chapterized_books/345-chapters/50.txt | finished_summaries/novelguide/Dracula/section_23_part_0.txt | Dracula.chapter 23 | chapter 23 | null | {"name": "Chapter 23", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20210215030733/https://www.novelguide.com/dracula/summaries/chapter23", "summary": "Van Helsing, Seward and Jonathan, still waiting at Dracula's house in Piccadilly, receive a telegram from Mina, informing them that she has sighted the vampire and he is headed ... |
_3 October._--The time seemed terrible long whilst we were waiting for
the coming of Godalming and Quincey Morris. The Professor tried to keep
our minds active by using them all the time. I could see his beneficent
purpose, by the side glances which he threw from time to time at Harker.
The poor fellow is overwhelmed... | 5,271 | Chapter 23 | https://web.archive.org/web/20210215030733/https://www.novelguide.com/dracula/summaries/chapter23 | Van Helsing, Seward and Jonathan, still waiting at Dracula's house in Piccadilly, receive a telegram from Mina, informing them that she has sighted the vampire and he is headed in their direction. The next persons to arrive, however, are Arthur and Quincey, who report having found and destroyed six more earth-boxes. No... | Even though Mina is the character currently being afflicted by Count Dracula, Seward notes in his diary how the strain and suspense of the hunt for the vampire is affecting Mina's husband, Jonathan . Harker, according to Seward, looks like "a drawn, haggard old man," even though the man's "energy is still intact; in fa... | 311 | 820 |
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