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
1st May
Jonathan left
2nd May
Jonathan reached
3rd
May, nightfall
Jonathan reached Bistritz. He stayed at the Golden Krone Hotel,
where he received a letter of welcome from Dracula.
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At this point Jonathan had detected nothing suspicious about the
Count.
4th May
Jonathan found that his landlord was “somewhat reticent”,
pretending not to understand his German on inquiries for details. Both the
landlord and his wife would not tell Jonathan Harker anything about Dracula.
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They did not want to get involved in Dracula’s plans for Jonathan,
knowing full well what they were.
When he was leaving Jonathan’s landlady gave him a crucifix and
warned him not to go and see Dracula, warning him that at
The landlady could not watch him walk to his doom, and so gave
Jonathan the crucifix hoping it would protect him against the evil of Dracula.
5th 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.
Dracula was something evil in the eyes of his people. The guards
against the evil eye were made for Jonathan, to protect him from Dracula.
6th May
Along the road, the driver of Jonathan’s calèche seemed strangely relieved that Dracula
was not waiting for Jonathan. He was about to continue to
At
Jonathan also saw blue flames. The driver got off the coach,
supposedly to investigate them, and Jonathan found that he could see the flames
even though the driver was standing in front of him and would have blocked his
line of vision.
On arrival at the castle, he realised that Dracula might have been
the coach driver.
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The coach driver had inhuman strength, gleaming red eyes and
brilliant white teeth. He also seemed to possess strange power over animals
(the horses and the wolves)
Dracula did not want Jonathan to arrive until
Jonathan later realised that Dracula was the only person in the
caste, and that he might have been the coach driver.
8th 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.
Dracula had no reflection in a mirror. Jonathan also realised that
Dracula had him imprisoned in the castle.
8th
May, Midnight
Jonathan had a long talk with the Count.
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Jonathan realised that the Count did not sleep.
12th
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”.
After a few nights with Dracula Jonathan concluded that the Count
did not eat, did not sleep at night and was never present in the daytime. He
also saw Dracula climb down the castle wall. It confirmed his suspicions about
Dracula.
15th
May
Once again Jonathan saw the Count climb down the castle wall.
16th
May
Jonathan had an encounter with the vampire brides.
Dracula seemed to strike fear in the hearts of the brides. Dracula
also mentioned that the brides could only have Jonathan after he himselfwas
done with him. Later Dracula threw the brides a sack which Jonathan believed
contained a bay.
18th
May
Jonathan found that the room in which he had seen the brides was
sealed. Forcibly.
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Dracula did not want Jonathan to see the brides again.
19th
May
Jonathan tried to get the gypsies who were camping outside to
deliver his letters but failed.
31st
May
Jonathan found that every scrap of paper, his writing materials
and his travel items with his clothing had vanished.
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Dracula did not want Jonathan to leave. Dracula also wanted the
people of Buda Pesth to believe that Jonathan was in no harm, and hence stole
his clothes to deliver Jonathan’s letters and masquerade as him.
17 June
Jonathan found that his room had been sealed. He called to Slovaks
for help, in vain.
24th
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).
25th
June
Jonathan limbed into Dracula’s room. Saw Dracula lying in the
chapel, with no signs to prove that he was alive.
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Dracula wasn’t alive.
29th
June
Tried to leave Dracula’s castle, but Dracula summoned wolves which
made him wait till morning.
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This action only served to confirm that Dracula was one of the
dreaded Nosferatu of legend.
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30th
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.