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* {{Deconstruction}}: The book takes several staples of the Gothic tradition and previous horror novels and reimagines them. Instead of CreepyCatholicism, the Romanian peasants whom Jonathan encounters while travelling to meet Dracula are aware of the danger he's in and try to warn him, when he manages to escape Dracula's castle he's nursed back to health by a hospital full of nuns, and the Roman Catholic Abraham Van Helsing is initially the only one of the main cast who has ''any'' inkling of what they're dealing with and how to fight it. John Seward, who is technically a 'mad doctor', is also one of the major protagonists. Rather than ScienceIsBad, as is the case with ''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}'' and ''Literature/TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde'', it instead gives the heroes an edge over their enemy.
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* {{Deconstruction}}: The book takes several staples of the Gothic tradition and previous horror novels and reimagines them. Instead of CreepyCatholicism, the Romanian peasants whom Jonathan encounters while travelling to meet Dracula are aware of the danger he's in and try to warn him, him [[note]]Admittedly in real life they would likely have been ''Orthodox,'' though Stoker never makes it clear and his readers likely wouldn't have been able to tell the difference.[[/note]], when he manages to escape Dracula's castle he's nursed back to health by a hospital full of nuns, and the Roman Catholic Abraham Van Helsing is initially the only one of the main cast who has ''any'' inkling of what they're dealing with and how to fight it. John Seward, who is technically a 'mad doctor', is also one of the major protagonists. Rather than ScienceIsBad, as is the case with ''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}'' and ''Literature/TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde'', it instead gives the heroes an edge over their enemy.
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* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: The heroes bring a lot of different skills and resources to the table: Lord Godalming is a wealthy heir who also lets them use the cultural weight of his noble title, Dr. Seward brings his medical and psychological expertise, Professor Van Helsing knows a great deal of vampire lore, Quincey Morris is an excellent shot and accomplished traveler, John Harker brings his investigative skills and knowledge of law as an attorney, and his wife brings...extremely good secretarial skills? This last skillset proves surprisingly crucial, in that, before they start working together, they have a ''lot'' of disconnected knowledge about Dracula's movements and activities; once she compiles their journals and lets them read the now-organized information, they ''all'' have a much better idea where he is and what he's up to, which gives them a head start in countering him.
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* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: The heroes bring a lot of different skills and resources to the table: Lord Godalming is a wealthy heir who also lets them use the cultural weight of his noble title, Dr. Seward brings his medical and psychological expertise, Professor Van Helsing knows a great deal of vampire lore, Quincey Morris is an excellent shot and accomplished traveler, John Harker brings his investigative skills and knowledge of law as an attorney, and his wife Mina Murray brings...extremely good secretarial skills? This However, this last skillset proves surprisingly crucial, in that, that before they start working together, they all have a ''lot'' of disconnected knowledge about Dracula's movements and activities; once she Mina compiles their journals and lets them read the now-organized information, they ''all'' have a much better idea where he is and what he's up to, which gives them a head start headstart in countering him.him.
