In the novel, Dracula, how were the brides killed….?





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3 Responses to “In the novel, Dracula, how were the brides killed….?”

  1. Persiphone_Hellecat said:

    July 24th, 2010 at 4:38 am

    Yes, Van Helsing does kill them in the last chapter. Just before he kills Dracula. The morning after they try to attack Mina.

    "There is some fascination, surely, when I am moved by the mere presence of such an one, even lying as she lay in a tomb fretted with age and heavy with the dust of centuries, though there be that horrid odor such as the lairs of the Count have had. Yes, I was moved. I, Van Helsing, with all my purpose and with my motive for hate. I was moved to a yearning for delay which seemed to paralyze my faculties and to clog my very soul. It may have been that the need of natural sleep, and the strange oppression of the air were beginning to overcome me. Certain it was that I was lapsing into sleep, the open eyed sleep of one who yields to a sweet fascination, when there came through the snow stilled air a long, low wail, so full of woe and pity that it woke me like the sound of a clarion. For it was the voice of my dear Madam Mina that I heard.

    Then I braced myself again to my horrid task, and found by wrenching away tomb tops one other of the sisters, the other dark one. I dared not pause to look on her as I had on her sister, lest once more I should begin to be enthrall. But I go on searching until, presently, I find in a high great tomb as if made to one much beloved that other fair sister which, like Jonathan I had seen to gather herself out of the atoms of the mist. She was so fair to look on, so radiantly beautiful, so exquisitely voluptuous, that the very instinct of man in me, which calls some of my sex to love and to protect one of hers, made my head whirl with new emotion. But God be thanked, that soul wail of my dear Madam Mina had not died out of my ears. And, before the spell could be wrought further upon me, I had nerved myself to my wild work. By this tim e I had searched all the tombs in the chapel, so far as I could tell. And as there had been only three of these Undead phantoms around us in the night, I took it that there were no more of active Undead existent. There was one great tomb more lordly than all the rest. Huge it was, and nobly proportioned. On it was but one word."

    But they certainly did spawn a series of B movies that were pretty horrible. Pax-C

  2. Krypton said:

    July 24th, 2010 at 4:38 am

    Abraham Van Helsing killed them.

    |<rypton

  3. Aiden B said:

    July 24th, 2010 at 4:38 am

    well in the original novel both harker and van helsing are attracted to the three brides, but harker escapes draculas castle and eventually van helsing overcomes his attraction and kills them, but it is never specified how

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