The DragonBram Stoker's gothic novel, Dracula, intrigues us in a well-plotted story and reveals the power of Dracula and how this very forbidden power takes control of men and women .A lawyer named Jonathan Harker travels to Transylvania in order to help someone called Count Dracula buy and own property in England. Harker is helping Dracula when he begins to realize that he is a prisoner. Harker begins to realize that Dracula is doing inhumane things like crawling down windows and comes to the conclusion that indeed, Dracula is not human. Harker attempts to escape Dracula's castle after Dracula's three wives attack, and barely escapes alive. Harker becomes very ill after his escape due to brain fever and it takes him several weeks to return to England, where Dracula has already set sail. In England, Mina and Lucy both live normally. Lucy is proposed to by Quincy Morris, Dr. Seward and Arthur Holmwood on the same day, and Mina waits for news of her fiancé. Lucy accepts Holmwood's proposal and the other two proposers accept it and remain friends. While all this is happening, Dracula arrives and strange things start happening. The sailors disappear, Lucy begins to behave strangely and seems to be losing blood. The cause of Lucy's blood loss is unknown and several treatments are administered to her by Van Helsing. Several blood transfusions are given to Lucy but she still dies. Lucy then turns into a vampire. Lucy is then stabbed and decapitated to ensure her death. Harker eventually returned to England and is married to Mina. Mina is then fed to Dracula and she is forced to feed on him, which sets off the next chain of events. Jonathan Harker, Van Helsing, Quincy Morris, Dr. Seward,...... middle of paper......delightful anticipation". Then we have the period in which Harker is described as suffering from " hysteria”, a mental disorder more common in women and it is only when he is married to Mina that this disappears Mina also participates in a transformation of the gender role in this novel. writing now economically stable, helps men plan and be part of the male circle of vampire hunters Mina is admired for her thoughts: she is said to "have the brain of a man", a brain that a man ". should have” if he was very “gifted” and a “woman’s heart”. Her masculinity is accepted because she still follows Victorian rules such as marrying and following her husband’s orders. follows her to the end This combination of intelligence and obedience is considered a good combination by “the good Lord. »..”