Fog In Dracula
Dracula by Bram Stoker is a story about a vampire, Count Dracula, that holds Johnathan Harker captive in his castle and he eventually escapes after he has witnessed events that change him forever. Also in this story, Count Dracula bites two ladies Lucy and Mina. Lucy turns into a vampire after multiple encounters with Dracula and Dr. Steward, Dr. Van Helsing, Lord Godalming, and Quincy Morris free her from her vampire state. Then, Dracula forces Mina, who is happens to be Johnathan Harker’s wife, to drink his blood to become his slave. Dracula flees from the men after they decide to hunt and kill him. The men follow him back to his castle and catch him along the way killing him by cutting off his head and freeing Mina from her captivity to Dracula. Throughout this story, Stoker uses several elements
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Johnathan and the rest of the men decide to keep Mina in the dark about what they are doing to keep her safe due to a woman’s delicate mental state. The crew is staying with Dr. Steward at the asylum because they learn that Dracula has leased the house next to him. One night they decide to go look around in the house to count the boxes left. While they are away, Mina has a strange encounter with “fog, which had evidently grown thicker and poured into the room” (Stoker 161). Mina believes that this is just a product of her overactive imagination, but we the reader know that this is Dracula, and he came to visit her. Also, while Dracula is fleeing to his castle, he surrounds the boat that his box is traveling in with fog. Dr. Steward, Dr. Van Helsing, and Johnathan question the skipper about his voyage and how they made such good time. The skipper told the men “the fog didn’t let up for five days” (Stoker 217) so he let the wind direct them. The men realize that Dracula guided the ship away from where he believed that the men would be expecting him to make
Johnathan and the rest of the men decide to keep Mina in the dark about what they are doing to keep her safe due to a woman’s delicate mental state. The crew is staying with Dr. Steward at the asylum because they learn that Dracula has leased the house next to him. One night they decide to go look around in the house to count the boxes left. While they are away, Mina has a strange encounter with “fog, which had evidently grown thicker and poured into the room” (Stoker 161). Mina believes that this is just a product of her overactive imagination, but we the reader know that this is Dracula, and he came to visit her. Also, while Dracula is fleeing to his castle, he surrounds the boat that his box is traveling in with fog. Dr. Steward, Dr. Van Helsing, and Johnathan question the skipper about his voyage and how they made such good time. The skipper told the men “the fog didn’t let up for five days” (Stoker 217) so he let the wind direct them. The men realize that Dracula guided the ship away from where he believed that the men would be expecting him to make