DRACULA

Dr Van Helsing was one of the most advanced scientists of his day, and he had, I believe, an absolutely open mind.
He is best known as a vampire hunter, the arch-enemy of Count Dracula. The story tells us that Van Helsing knows as much about obscure diseases as anyone in the world.
It is Dr Van Helsing who first realizes that Lucy is a victim of a vampire and he guides his friends in their efforts to save Lucy, this is why he is important in the story.
What we learn about vampires throughout the story are the following things: They rest during the day and they get up at night when their power is useful. They never die, that's why people always was scared when they thought about them. There were three things people could do to kill a vampire: first open vampire's coffin, then hammer a sharp piece of wood through his heart and finally cut off his head. When vampires find a victim they attack it by doing a mark on his troath, a red bloody mark. Transylvanians protected themselves against vampires in many ways: by wearing a cross around their necks, puting garlic plants in their houses, praying to God.
Dracula is not a real story because vampires didn't exist, but there was a Count called Dracula many years ago. He was the ruler of Transylvania in the fifteenth century. The following element is real: the setting place, because London and Transylvania (it is now part of Romania) exist. A fiction element is the vampire's figure, which people was frightened by.