The Similarities Between Dracula And Van Helsing

I could say that the movie adaptation of the book Dracula is slightly fractured. In the movie, Peter Hawkins is shown as an unscrupulous man who has no problem sending Harker to Romania despite of being aware of the danger it will pose for him. A perfect opposite of what is in the book. In the book, Dracula bears some resemblance to Vlad but their relationship are never clearly drawn, but in the movie, Van Helsing believes that Dracula and Vlad is the same person. In the book, Jonathan Harker escapes Dracula’s castle when Dracula departs for England while in the movie, it took quite a long time before Dracula leaves, with the vampire brides periodically drinking his blood before he finally escapes. In the book, Lucy is shown to be a typically