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DRACULA

 





MayDay! It’s contagious and it’s spreading! Blood has started its journey from inside to outside. With teeth waiting to tear and suck, it’s indeed a different journey when a human meets Vampire. Starting from a different century when we thought monsters didn’t actually exist, Bram Stroker contradicts our belief!

Canines protruding, blood-red and plump lips, voluptuous lips, the descriptions of Dracula and its castle is laden beautifully. When all these features are normalized in the beginning, it doesn’t turn horrifying until we start seeing things through Jonathan Harker who came to deal with the Devil! Escaping the clutches and reaching home through an acquaintance as a traumatized person, he takes a promise before marrying the love of his life, Mina Harker!

The events that started elsewhere, were spreading through the vampire who comes in every form, starting from fog to a bat. When further discoveries were made by Dr. Van Heslieng and Dr. Jack, they realise that their patient isn’t the only one to be the victim. The promise which was sealed due to faith and in the interest of not visiting the horrid past, the efforts go down in vain when the coincidence wasn’t as it seemed.

Joining hands with Mina and Jonathan, they learn through each other’s findings only to find another secret that shook their group. As a friend and a wife, she grows beyond these duties to that of a friend and a researcher who helps the men to destroy the UnDead Dracula. She tries her hard to withstand the overcoming power by helping them and herself which highlights herself as a person. Introducing each other through their journals and diaries, each character faces a deep dive before they join together to destroy Dracula for humanity!

With different characters expressing themselves only through diary entries, each character gets a chance to be themselves. With their fight and flight responses activated, Bram Stroker gives a peep into their and common psychology as they get ready for whatever it takes to elevate our curiosity. As the pages turn, readers discover the imaginative story and the underlying principles of Dracula which resembles Hotel Transylvania but isn’t an exact replica either.

Starting as a travelogue of just Jonathan Harker, Bram Stroker gives everyone a heroic image, especially Morris Quincey. Through the spine-chilling descriptions that disturb our sleep, Bram Stroker makes us search for a solution that somewhat turns out to be opposite yet contemplated facts. Even though different clues are laid on what can destroy the evil, it takes more than a jibe to blame Stroker for coming up with something that terrorizes yet normalizes us. Even though the clues remain accurate at times, the case of Reinfield confuses the readers as it remains unfinished at a point where our questions aren’t answered.

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