Blog Post on Dracula Part Two

I just finished Dracula and I noticed some of my ideas from my earlier blog post had carried over and some had not. I had discussed in my previous blog post on how before we knew Dracula was evil, could we tell? As the book goes on, we begin to realize there maybe darker things in play, when Mina (Jonathan's wife) friend is acting very strangely. But it isn't until very late in the book when the characters realize that Dracula is a vampire.
And now, when Dracula is described, he is nothing like he first was. This is a quote from when the characters first meet Dracula, "his eyes held hatred beyond what anyone could imagine, he was the very creature of loathing and hate." This is very different from what he is described earlier, as being normal. Dracula is now pictured of a scary, bloodthirsty monster, one that is absolutely terrifying. The book has grown very darker too, because there are more scary elements. This is a quote from a night of a very bad storm, and a group of people are seeing a ship in the waters struggling to fight the storm. "And as the spotlight (from a lighthouse) looked upon the ship, we realized that the man on the steering wheel was dead and lashed to the wheel." This is quite chilling, in my opinion, because to see a corpse seemingly steering a ship would scare me. This shows how much darker the book has gotten since the beginning.
The characters have changed very much too. Jonathan Harker, who started a practical businessman, is now a shell of his former self, and is very scared and scarred by what he has been through.  Mina, his wife was once very silly, is now a very strong women who is determined to bring down Dracula at all costs. The way everyone works together reminds of modern times, when groups of kids and adults work together to fight a monster. I think this shows some of the lasting effects Dracula has on the real world.
And when they finally defeat Dracula, there is not peace at first. They lost many people to Dracula, and they feel that the past will never really leave them. As the characters changed and developed they grew stronger and wiser, but also got exposed to some of the worst things in life.  I think they made the right choice, because in the end they saved the world from a very horrible threat.