Bram Stoker's gothic novel, Dracula, intrigues us with a well-structured story and reveals the power of Dracula and how that forbidden power takes control of both men and women . A lawyer named Jonathan Harker travels to Transylvania to help someone called Count Dracula buy and own property in England. Harker is helping Dracula when he begins to realize that he is a prisoner. Harker begins to realize that Dracula does inhuman things such as crawling down windows and comes to the conclusion that Dracula is in fact not human. Harker attempts to escape Castle Dracula after the attack of Dracula's three wives, and barely manages to survive. Harker becomes seriously ill after his brain fever escape and it takes him several weeks to return to England, where Dracula has already set sail. In England, Mina and Lucy both live life normally. Lucy is proposed to by Quincy Morris, Dr. Seward, and Arthur Holmwood on the same day, and Mina waits to hear from her fiancé. Lucy accepts Holmwood's proposal and the other two proposers accept and remain friends. While all this is happening, Dracula arrives and strange things begin to happen. The sailors disappear, Lucy begins to act strangely and appears to be losing blood. The cause of Lucy's blood loss is unknown and she is given several treatments through Van Helsing. Lucy is given several blood transfusions, but she still dies. Lucy then turns into a vampire. Lucy is then stabbed and decapitated to ensure her death. Harker finally returned to England and married Mina. Mina is then fed to Dracula and is forced to feed on him, this starts the next chain of events. Jonathan Harker, Van Helsing, Quincy Morris, Dr. Seward,... at the center of the paper... full of delicious anticipation.” Then we have the period in which Harker is described as suffering from "hysteria", a mental disorder more common among women and it is only when he is married to Mina that this disorder disappears. Mina also takes part in a gender role transformation. in this novel. Mina, who is a now financially stable typewriter, helps the men plan and become part of the male circle of vampire hunters. Mina is admired for her thoughts, she is said to "have a man's brain", a brain that a man "should have" if he were very "gifted", and a "woman's heart". Her masculinity is accepted due to the fact that she still follows Victorian rules such as getting married and following her husband's orders. Mina is still tied to her culture and follows it to the end. This combination of brains and obedience is believed to be a good combination on the part of the “good Lord”..”