Louie

Character List

Count Dracula -  A centuries-old vampire and Transylvanian nobleman, Count Dracula inhabits a crumbling castle in the Carpathian Mountains. Beneath a veneer of aristocratic charm,the count possesses a dark and evil soul. He can assume the form of an animal, control the weather, and he is stronger than twenty men.
Van Helsing - a Dutch professor, described by his former pupilDr. Seward as “a philosopher and metaphysician, and one of the most advanced scientists of his day.” Called upon to cure the ailing Lucy Westenra, Van Helsing’s contributions are essential in the fightagainst Dracula. Unlike his comrades, Van Helsing is not blinded by the limitations of Western medicine.
Jonathan Harker - a solicitor, or lawyer, whose firm sends him to Transylvania to conclude areal estate transaction with Dracula,. Young and naïve, Harker quickly finds himself a prisoner in the castle and barely escapes with his life. He demonstrates a fierce curiosity to discover the truenature of his captor and a strong will to escape.
Mina Murray - Jonathan Harker’s fiancée. Mina is a practical young woman who works as a schoolmistress. Eventually victimized by Dracula herself,Mina is also the best friend of the count’s first victim in the novel, Lucy Westenra. Mina is in many ways the heroine of the novel.
Lucy Westenra -  Mina’s best friend and an attractive, vivaciousyoung woman. The first character in the novel to fall under Dracula’s spell, Lucy becomes a vampire, which compromises her much-praised chastity and virtue, and banishes her soul from the promise ofeternal rest.
John Seward -  A talented young doctor, formerly Van Helsing’s pupil. Seward is the administrator of an insane asylum not far from Dracula’s English home. Throughout the novel, Sewardconducts ambitious interviews with one of his patients, Renfield, in order to understand better the nature of life-consuming psychosis.
Plot Overview
Jonathan Harker, a young English lawyer, travels to...