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__Jonathan Harker:__ Jonathan Harker is a lawyer and is the first character to meet Count Dracula. Mr. Harker is a logical thinking man and is fiercely protective of his wife, Mina. Mr. Harker's involvement in the conflict between man and the Count is one of the more important parts. He provides a detailed mapping of Dracula's castle, helps track down Dracula, and ends up slitting Dracula's throat with his kukri knife.

__Mina Harker:__ Mina Harker is the wife of the lawyer Jonathan Harker. Mina is incredibly intellegent and extremely clever. Mina Harker was known as Mina Murray in the begginign of the book and is engaged to Jonathan. After Jonathan escapes Dracula's castle, the are soon married. Later in the book, she is bitten by Dracula and is slowly turning into a vampire, but she is able to use her connection (allong with her natural intellegence) to the Count to help track him down. When Dracula is finally killed, she becomes wholly human again and seven years later, has a son with Jonathan and names him after Quincy Morris.

__Dr. John Seward:__ Dr. Seward is a doctor of the mind. He owns an isane assylum in London. He is an intellegent, determined man. His involvement in the destruction of Dracula is being the provider of the house of operations, provider of much of the resources, and helped fight off Draculas followers on the evening of Dracula's death.

__Lord Athur Godalming:__ Lord Arthur was the fiance of the late Lucy Westernra. He is pationate, loving, and strong. His involvement in the hunt of Dracula was proving his title to gain certain advantages over the Count and helped Dr. Seward pin down some of Dracula's followers with long range rifles during Dracula's final hour.

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__ Prof. Abraham Van Helsing: __ Van Helsing is Dutch doctor/lawyer/professor. He is an older gentleman with red hair, hard knowing blue eyes, and a firm will. Van Helsing's contribution is probably the most beneficial to the group. He brought with him, the knowledge and tools to destroy vampires, such as holy wafers and crucifix's, garlic, and wooden stakes; he was the reason Lucy Westernra lived as long as she did as well as her destruction when she finally turned into a vampire, he also is why Mina survived the whole ordeal of the hunt. He also is responsible for destroying all three of Dracula's wives.

__ Lucy Westernra: __ Lucy is and optimistic, cheerful girl. She was sought after Dr. Seward, Lord Godalming, and Mr. Morris, but the Lord wsa the one in the end who won her heart. Lucy is unfortunately bitten by the Count multiple times and dies from blood loss. After her death, she turns into a vampire and begins to prey on small children. She is ultimately destroyed by the man she loved in life.

__ Mr. Renfield: __ Mr. Renfield is an insane and violent resident of Dr. Seward's assylum. He is an average built man, but unusually strongdue to his mental state. He is obsessed with killing and controls the lives of flys and spiders throughout the book. Renfields involvment the the book is by having Count Dracula entrall him and use him to gain entry to the assylum to prey on Lucy and Mina. He eventually gains control and his sanity back and attacks the Count, but Dracula's supperior strenght and endurance allowed the Count to kill Renfield by slamming him onto the hard floor.

__Dracula:__ Count Dracula is the antagonist of the story. He is the epitome of evil, he is cruel, intellegent, but his brain is not fully developed. In the beggining his appearance is that of an elderly man with white hair and a white mustache; but towards the middle and end, his hair is black and he is a young looking man. Throughout the book his fingernails are pointed and he wears all black. Throughout the book he preys on the women protagonists but is eventually forced out of London by the protagonists. He attempts to flee to his castle, but at the very end, when he near victory, he is killed by a stab through the heart by Quincy and a cut of the throat by Mr. Harker.