were the Slovaks.” 3 Everything in this world seems threatening, scary and uninviting. From the first chapter, the region east of Budapest is regarded as “wildest and least known portions of Europe.” 1 Jonathan Harker “feared to go very far from the train ” 2 moreover the people he sees are “The strangest figures. If Bram Stoker would have given us his point of view we might have been able to see what it is on “the other side.” So the question remains, why did Bram Stoker omit Dracula's take on the events? The answer lays in the novel and how the other characters view him. More interesting is the omission of Dracula's perspective. On the other hand, his testimony of the events will overlap with the other witness assertions thus the story will be redundant. Thus one can argue that his point of view is missing, because he is a foreigner and only English characters have that privilege. He is the only one that understands the threat and can explain the situation. Van Helsing is the intermediary between the Count and the English characters.

The first one is the perspective of Professor Van Helsing.

Surprisingly two perspectives are missing. Stoker also uses news sources, The Dailygraph, The Pall Mall Gazette, The Westminster Gazette to solidify the authenticity of the story. To make the book more believable, Bram Stoker uses several different perspectives - Jonathan Harker's, Mina Murray's, Dr.

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