When i read it i saw Van Helsing as a man who was eccentric and dressed with a sort of cloak like a detective, kind of like the actor in Van Helsing the film, but i saw him much older though. The way he would make a entrance would be as soon as he entered you would look. Bram Stoker wrote the character in a way that made me think that he is a intellect and knows anything about everything, and knows how to act in completely different situations.
In the book Stoker has portrayed him to be the hero of the story, by making the world better, as he know what is going on. When it comes to it he is a very good person and shows it when he helps lucy by asking her the acceptance of a cure and he understands the importance of what he has to do. Stoker has made the character unique and eccentric, which makes him stand out and memorable in the book.
Van Helsing seems to see positive in things when the others seem not to, as he laughs at times, when he speaks to anyone in the book about Lucy being dead, he is sympathetic and shows that he wanted to save her and knew what was being done to her.
The plot is basically Dracula is a Count and wants to go to England and Jonathan Harker a lawyer is to help him with all the paperwork side of it, as he wants to buy a house there, but jonathan does figure out there is something weird going on. Travels to England and from then on drinks lucy's blood each night, meets Mina and wants to turn her, so he can control her and be with her forever. Dr Van Helsing is called to help Lucy and be the hero for everyone.
Overall Van Helsing is very smart and knows all about the supernatural, and seems to know how to kill them, and helps Dr Seward along the way when dealing with what was becoming of Lucy and how to see things in certain ways that he may not understand, and when he has done his job, goes away like he came in, being the hero, which makes it very hard for you not to like him.
The book itself is a novel which is fiction, and it is all written as journal entries and letters from each of the characters, so then you learn about what they are thinking and how they have observed about has and is happening.I think the book is interesting and the more you read you can relate to the characters, but in some places as it is a very old book, the words i sometimes cant understand, but it has a glossary which helps, so i should read that to then know what they are refering to.
I do like Mina, but in places she seems helpless of what to do for Jonathan and is shy of what things mean in terms of marriage, but when helping Lucy when she disappears one night into the garden and finds her laying on the bench with Dracula crouched over her drinking her blood, but as a wolf like creature, but goes as soon as Mina sees him, and she does come to Lucy's aid very quickly, which is what i like about her and that she is very smart when it comes to medicine and ways of thinking that women wouldnt have been able to have done in that era.
Towards the ending it seems that Van Helsing and the group know what they are doing when wanting to go and kill Dracula, but it seems as it goes wrong slightly. But when all is done Van Helsing goes like the way he came in to it.
Van Helsing has been shown in different ways over the years and because he is so interesing and stands out he can be taken out of context and shown as young, grumpy and lonely, even actors playing that in films.
http://sarahneanbruce.me/2010/11/15/beyond-bram-stoker%E2%80%99s-way-of-the-vampire-by-sarah-nean-bruce-chapter-2-in-hd/
https://www.blackgate.com/2012/03/09/bram-stoker%E2%80%99s-dracula-reconsidered/
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http://www.shmoop.com/dracula/dr-van-helsing.html
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/dracula/canalysis.html
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