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Jonathan Harker is a fictional character and one of the main protagonists of Bram Stoker's 1897 Gothic horror novel Dracula.An English solicitor, his journey to Transylvania and encounter with the vampire Count Dracula and his Brides at Castle Dracula constitutes the dramatic opening scenes in the novel and most of the film adaptations.
Dracula is an adaptation, first published in 1996, by American playwright Steven Dietz of Bram Stoker's 1897 novel by the same name. [1] Though it has never run on Broadway, the author lists it among his most financially successful works, and it is frequently performed near Halloween in regional and community theaters. [2]
Jonathan finds the Count abrupt and impatient to get things done. Dracula reacts very strongly to a photograph of Harker's fiancée Mina and her best friend, Lucy. After preventing his brides from devouring Harker, he forces the young solicitor to write a letter saying he will be staying in Transylvania for a month. Harker climbs down the ...
The Count voices his desire to begin a new life in his new country ("Solitary Man"). Dracula shows Harker to his bedroom, where he notices a picture of Harker's fiancée Mina Murray, which seems to have a strange effect on him. Once Dracula leaves, Harker composes a letter to Mina, who herself remembers how they met ("Whitby Bay").
Dracula is gracious, but he has sharp fingernails, hair on his palms, and casts no reflection. After an encounter with Dracula's brides, Harker finds the Count and his brides' sleeping quarters in a crypt, with their eyes open, yet seemingly unaware of his presence. Harker tries to kill Dracula with a shovel to no effect before fleeing the castle.
Jonathan Harker (Keanu Reeves), a young lawyer, travels to Count Dracula's castle on business. Dracula (Gary Oldman) discovers that Harker's fiancée Mina (Winona Ryder) looks just like his late wife.
In London, Dracula hypnotically seduces and bites Mina's best friend Lucy Westenra, with whom Mina is staying while Jonathan is in Transylvania. Lucy's deteriorating health and behavioral changes prompt former suitors Quincey Morris and Dr. Seward, along with her fiancé Arthur Holmwood to summon Dr. Abraham Van Helsing , Seward's mentor, who ...
Vampyr, from Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer, features several scenes where protagonist Allan Gray, an occult enthusiast, reads up about the vampire who has an ancient French village under its ...