Darius Foo (08)                          Class: 207                                       28/1/05

 

Timeline of Dracula, by Bram Stoker (Done so far: Only chapters 1-4)

 

The diary of Jonathan Harker

 

1^st May - Jonathan Harker left Munich.

2^nd May - Jonathan Harker reached Vienna in the morning. He left for Klausenburgh after nightfall and stayed at the Hôtel Royale.

3^rd May, nightfall - Jonathan Harker reached Bistritz. He stayed at the Golden Krone Hotel, where he received a letter of welcome from Dracula.

4^th May – He found that his landlord was pretending not to understand his German on inquiries for details. Both the landlord and his wife would not tell Jonathan Harker anything about Dracula.

When he was leaving Jonathan’s landlady gave him a crucifix and warned him not to go and see Dracula, warning him that at midnight “all evil things in the world would have full sway”. Jonathan ignored the warnings.

5^th May – Passengers on the coach, as well as passers-by outside the inn, seemed to fear for Jonathan. He saw many guards against the evil eye.

6^th May – Along the road, the driver of Jonathan’s calèche seemed strangely relieve that Dracula was not waiting for Jonathan. He was about to continue to Bukovina when another driver, sent by Dracula, arrived. Jonathan noticed the incredible strength of the driver when his luggage was taken, his gleaming red eyes in the lamplight and his brilliant white teeth. He noticed at midnight that the driver had been going round in circles waiting for this moment. He had a frightening ride on Dracula’s coach. On arrival at the castle, he found that Dracula seemed to be the coach driver.

8^th May – Jonathan was shaving when Dracula suddenly greeted him. Jonathan was surprised because there seemed to be no reflection of Dracula in any mirror. On noticing that Jonathan had cut himself, Dracula flung the shaving glass out of the window. Later he found that he was a prisoner in the castle, and panicked.

8^th May, Midnight – Jonathan had a long talk with the Count.

12^th May – Dracula asked Jonathan to stay for a month in the castle. Later Jonathan saw the Count climbing out of the castle down a wall, “just as a lizard moves along a wall”.

15^th May – Once again Jonathan saw the Count climb down the castle wall.

16^th May – Jonathan had an encounter with the vampire brides.

18^th May – Jonathan found that the room in which he had seen the brides was sealed. Forcibly.

19^th May – Jonathan tried to get the gypsies who were camping outside to deliver his letters.

31^st May – Jonathan found that every scrap of paper, his writing materials and his travel items with his clothing had vanished.

17 June – Found that his room had been sealed. He called to Slovaks for help, in vain.

24^th June – Jonathan saw the Count climbing out of his window in the suit Jonathan had worn when he had arrived at the castle. Later he beheld a horrifying scene in which the mother of a baby Dracula had stolen was devoured by wolves (that Dracula had summoned).

25^th June – Climbed into Dracula’s room. Saw Dracula lying in the chapel, with no signs of life to prove that he was alive.

29^th June – Tried to leave Dracula’s castle, but Dracula summoned wolves which made him wait till morning.

30^th June – Saw Dracula once again in the chapel. Dracula was “lying there like a filthy leech, simply gorged with blood”. Tried to kill Dracula but only cut his forehead. Jonathan later tried to escape castle Dracula by scaling that castle walls down.

 

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