Dracula

A summary of the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker:

This amazing novel is a field of battle between two poles which aim to rescue their women.

The fight between two poles of east and west, tradition and modernity, day and night is the theme of the story. Jonathan Harker, a man from modern west, goes to the extreme east of Europe, Transylvania. Upon his arrival to the castle, he writes "the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere “modernity” cannot kill." After showing his cruel eastern nature, the Count moves to the west, attacking Lucy, a modernized girl. Neither Mina nor Dr. John Seward can think of any reason beyond what they have learned in their modernized world. It is only Dr. Van Helsing, "logical and forceful and mysterious" in the words of John, who can be a bridge between tradition and modernity and fights the Count. Also, such a pole exists between day and night through the story, as the excitements get inhibited during the day light, whereas we start trembling when the dark comes.

In the story, every man is somehow helping a woman survive. Either the Count who went to the dark side for his wife or our modern men. Lucy, a sexual girl, who can attract three men, and even she desires to have all together, is sought to be rescued by men belonging to Victorian period which cannot accept the seduction of a woman by an evil, or in fact, losing the virginity of a woman by a non-husband man. In our disappointment, the women which have been helped so much lose their control and gets seduced by the wolf-like Count, reminding us of what the zoo keeper said: "you can’t trust wolves no more nor women".