Jonathan Harker is a man who is sent by Mr Hawkins, his boss, to Transilvania, to drive a bargain with count Dracula, a count who lives in a castle in a Carpathian Mountains.
During the journey Jonathan is scared by the people he meets that tell him horrific stories about the castle but he countines his journey. When he meets Dracula he thinks that the count is a strange person and he notices rapidly he is in trap in the castle and that Dracula is a vampire, so he begins to look for a way to escape.
Secretely he tries to visit all the room of the castle but a lot of them are locked, during one of his “tours” he has a dangerous encounter with brides of Dracula but the count saves him.
Then, after some attempts, Jonathan manages to escape from the castle and finds a refuge at a convent. After that he joins with the other characters to kill Dracula, they destroy the crates of ground that the count had construct and at the end they manage to kill Dracula, and Jonathan and Mina, some years later, have a son that name Quincy, in honour of Quincy Morris.
Harker is presented as the protagonist of the story but he is a static character, in fact he has a role established from the begin of the novel to the end.
Camilla Capaccioli
Sunday, 14 December 2008
Vlad III
Vlad III was the monarch of Wallachia, near Transilvania, in the 15th century (his kingdom continued from 1431 or 1432 to 1476). Son of Vlad II appointed under the "Order of the dragon" from which derives his son's designation "Draculea": the dragon's son (the term "Drac" means olso daemon).Vlad III became "the daemon's son" and probably that was the base of the legend linked with this macabre figure.He was known olso as "Vlade tepes" becouse of his strange and horrible way to torture enemies, learned during the Turkish prison. The monarch used to punish his victim by impaling them on stakesin two different ways: or using a pointed stake to pierce victim's abdomen; or using a stond stake that slide slowly into victim's buttoks. In this way he
Vlad III used olso different ways to impaling his enemies related to their blames (thieves, Ambassadors, warriors etc) and moreover he liked have dinner in the middle of the forks in which were impaled the victims or show them publicly.Olso about Vlad III's death there are some charming and ambiguous misteries couse we don't know perfectly the sort of his body and some recently archeological research discovered in the Vlad's tomb only horse's bones.
Matteo Ricottini
Vlad III used olso different ways to impaling his enemies related to their blames (thieves, Ambassadors, warriors etc) and moreover he liked have dinner in the middle of the forks in which were impaled the victims or show them publicly.Olso about Vlad III's death there are some charming and ambiguous misteries couse we don't know perfectly the sort of his body and some recently archeological research discovered in the Vlad's tomb only horse's bones.
Matteo Ricottini
VAN HELSING
Van Helsing is a foundamental character for the development of the story. We see him for the first time when Dr.Seward doesn't manage to cure Lucy from her "illness". So Dr.Seward decides to call Van Helsing from Holland. When he visits Lucy he realises that there's something more than an ordinary illness. In fact he informs the other characters of the existens of a supernatural creature: a vapire. Now Lucy has became a woman vampire too who sucks human's blood in order to survive. So Van Helsing explains that they have to kill her definetly. Than, thanks to Jonathan's diary, Van Helsing manages to find Dracula's castle. Here with Mina and the other male characters (Jonathan, Dr.Seward, Lord Godalming and Quincy Morris) they kill for ever the vampire that, before dying, transforms himself in dust. Van Helsing was the only who knew the presence of the vampire. Without his intervention Dr.Seward and the others couldn't helped Lucy and saved Mina.
Silvia Licciardi
Mina Murray
Mina Murray is a young girl of noble origins in fact, she's 24 years old. Later she takes the last name of her spouse Jonathan Harker.
She is a teacher, typewriter and stenographer. she has also the passion to have a corrispondence with her friend Lucy Westerna. After the escape of Jonathan from the castle of Conte Dracula, Mina went in Transylvania and care for him. The two married before returning in England. Later on, Mine and Jonathan join to the group of Abraham Van Helsing, intent upon to find and to kill the vampire.Come to acquaintance of this threat, Dracula is revenged biting Mina and making her drinking her blood to condemn her to become a vampire. However, in this way, between Dracula and Mina it comes established a mysterious tie that will help the group of Van Helsing to trace Dracula.At the end Mina becomes free from the tie in fact she returns human.
Mina is the reincarnation of Elisabeth, count Vlad III Dracula’s wife (in the movie by F.F. Coppola); for this reason Dracula is interested in her.
Daniele Turco
VAN HELSING
Van Helsing is a singular character.
He is a famous doctor who is introduced in the story by Dr Seward.
Dr Seward calls Van Helsing because he doesn't know Lucy's illness and he isn't able to save her. Van Helsing is the only one who understands the reason of Lucy's illness.
He shows to know many aspects of Dracula and he knows what they have to do to destroy the vampire. In fact he becomes a sourt of head of the group and he organizes the actions against the count coordinating the movements of the other.
But Van Helsing is a man of action too. Meanwhile the men follow Dracula to kill him, Van Helsing goes with Mina to Dracula's castle and he kills the three women destroying all vampires.
His role in the story is very important; he represents the knowledge, he's the only one who knows what they are fighting and the way to fight him; he is the one who gives the means to destroy the threat.
Van Helsing is the mind of the group.
Sara Poggiali
VLAD TEPES, CALLED “DRACULA”
Born in Sighiçoara in 1431, in the centre of Romania, on the Carpathians, Dracula, whose real name was Vlad Tepes Draculea, was a prince of Wallachia. The name “Tepes” meant “impaler”: the favourite method to eliminate his enemies.
“Draculea” meant “little dragon”, cause of he was the son of a dragon: the father Dracul, whose duty was to defend the Christianity from the Turkish on the Balkans.
Nevertheless, cause of his little army, he often preferred to make agreements with Turkish, paying in nature or with money, until he decided to deliver to the Turkish sultan two sons of him as hostages: one of them was the 12th years old Vlad Tepes: the sultan promised he wouldn’t invaded Wallachia.
Then Dracula had been educated to the court of the powerful and rich Turkish sultan, and to the court of Mohammed II, learning to use the terror as instrument of power.
When Vlad came back in Wallachia in 1448 to take possess of it, with the help of Turkish, after father’s death, he had to face the Boyars: from whom he was defeated, then he went in Moldavia and in a night of the year 1459, after he had invited 500 Boyars at dinner, as sign of peace, he called his army and made them impale around his palace in Tirgoviste.
The impalement, learnt by Dracula in Turkey, was a method of torture and execution involving a person being pierced with a long stake. The penetration could be through the sides, through the rectum, through the vagina, or through the mouth. This method brought to a painful death; sometimes taking days. The stake would often be planted in the ground, leaving the impaled person suspended to die.
Dracula didn’t use only the method of impalement, but others too: stake, hot oil, decapitation, etc.
During his life he had killed 100.000 people, excluding obviously the enemies died during the fights.
Successively he solved personally the problem of the heirs to the throne, gathering them in a palace and burning it.
In Transylvania he made impale 20.000 people in an only night, he had two wives and a lot of lovers, one of them told him she was pregnant for joke: he disembowelled her to be sure she was joking.
Dracula was really brave: he loved to direct his army in the first line; with his army of 30.000 unities, he opposed to the Balkan army, composed by 250.000 unities.
He applied the tactics of the “burn land”, going away leaving nothing to the enemies, using the technique of guerrilla too and dazing with psychological war the enemies, like as he blocked the way with Muslim, taken as prisoners previously.
Vlad, who was indifferent to religion, decided to convert himself and took part in the anti-Turkish campaigns.
He died in 1476 during a battle near Bucharest: he was discovered and killed by some traitor Boyars.
His head was cut and taken in Costantinopoli; Vlad was buried in the monastery of Snagov.
Immediately a lot of torments and legends of him born in that place; when the cadaver was discovered in 30 years of XX century, in his tomb they found only a yellow silk dress with silver buttons.
Today in Romany Vlad is considered as an hero of national indipendence.
Lorenzo Quercioli
“Draculea” meant “little dragon”, cause of he was the son of a dragon: the father Dracul, whose duty was to defend the Christianity from the Turkish on the Balkans.
Nevertheless, cause of his little army, he often preferred to make agreements with Turkish, paying in nature or with money, until he decided to deliver to the Turkish sultan two sons of him as hostages: one of them was the 12th years old Vlad Tepes: the sultan promised he wouldn’t invaded Wallachia.
Then Dracula had been educated to the court of the powerful and rich Turkish sultan, and to the court of Mohammed II, learning to use the terror as instrument of power.
When Vlad came back in Wallachia in 1448 to take possess of it, with the help of Turkish, after father’s death, he had to face the Boyars: from whom he was defeated, then he went in Moldavia and in a night of the year 1459, after he had invited 500 Boyars at dinner, as sign of peace, he called his army and made them impale around his palace in Tirgoviste.
The impalement, learnt by Dracula in Turkey, was a method of torture and execution involving a person being pierced with a long stake. The penetration could be through the sides, through the rectum, through the vagina, or through the mouth. This method brought to a painful death; sometimes taking days. The stake would often be planted in the ground, leaving the impaled person suspended to die.
Dracula didn’t use only the method of impalement, but others too: stake, hot oil, decapitation, etc.
During his life he had killed 100.000 people, excluding obviously the enemies died during the fights.
Successively he solved personally the problem of the heirs to the throne, gathering them in a palace and burning it.
In Transylvania he made impale 20.000 people in an only night, he had two wives and a lot of lovers, one of them told him she was pregnant for joke: he disembowelled her to be sure she was joking.
Dracula was really brave: he loved to direct his army in the first line; with his army of 30.000 unities, he opposed to the Balkan army, composed by 250.000 unities.
He applied the tactics of the “burn land”, going away leaving nothing to the enemies, using the technique of guerrilla too and dazing with psychological war the enemies, like as he blocked the way with Muslim, taken as prisoners previously.
Vlad, who was indifferent to religion, decided to convert himself and took part in the anti-Turkish campaigns.
He died in 1476 during a battle near Bucharest: he was discovered and killed by some traitor Boyars.
His head was cut and taken in Costantinopoli; Vlad was buried in the monastery of Snagov.
Immediately a lot of torments and legends of him born in that place; when the cadaver was discovered in 30 years of XX century, in his tomb they found only a yellow silk dress with silver buttons.
Today in Romany Vlad is considered as an hero of national indipendence.
Lorenzo Quercioli
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