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DraculaDr. John Seward. Amidst the baffling and fear-driven pursuit against the shadow world of vampires, Dr. John Seward serves as one of several key players needed to thwart Dracula. His interviews provide exposition to the lore of vampirism; his is a perspective that is purely scientific and psychoanalytical, and his outlook both grounds and ...
Seward is the administrator of an insane asylum not far from Count Dracula 's first English home, Carfax. Throughout the novel, Seward conducts ambitious interviews with one of his patients, R. M. Renfield, in order to understand better the nature of life-consuming psychosis, or as he calls it, zoophagy. As a psychiatrist, Seward enjoys using ...
John "Jack" Seward, M.D. is a fictional character appearing in Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula.[1] Dr. John Seward was the administrator of an insane asylum not far from Count Dracula's first English home, Carfax Abbey. Seward conducted ambitious interviews with one of his patients, Renfield, in order to understand better the nature of life-consuming psychosis. As a psychiatrist, Seward ...
- Count Dracula. A centuries-old vampire and Transylvanian nobleman, Count Dracula inhabits a crumbling castle in the Carpathian Mountains. Beneath a veneer of aristocratic charm, the count possesses a dark and evil soul.
- Van Helsing. A Dutch professor, described by his former pupil Dr. Seward as “a philosopher and metaphysician, and one of the most advanced scientists of his day.”
- Jonathan Harker. A solicitor, or lawyer, whose firm sends him to Transylvania to conclude a real estate transaction with Dracula. Young and naïve, Harker quickly finds himself a prisoner in the castle and barely escapes with his life.
- Mina Murray. Jonathan Harker’s fiancée. Mina is a practical young woman who works as a schoolmistress. Eventually victimized by Dracula herself, Mina is also the best friend of the count’s first victim in the novel, Lucy Westenra.
Dr. John Seward plays a major role in helping defeat the vampires in Bram Stoker's ''Dracula''. However, he refrains from engaging in superstitious and religious means, preferring to rely on ...
We also know that Dr. Seward is a loyal friend: He doesn't get angry or jealous when his beloved Lucy chooses his best friend, Arthur, over him—instead, he invites Arthur out for a drink (5.19). We also learn from Van Helsing that Seward once saved Van Helsing from blood poisoning by acting quickly enough to stop the spread of the poison (9.26).
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Dr. Seward. The head of an insane asylum in London, which happens to sit next to Dracula's first English estate at Carfax, Seward was a former suitor of, and current friend to, Lucy, before her death. With Van Helsing and the others, Seward then tracks down Dracula in England, and follows him to Romania, where Dracula is "truly killed."
