Before leaving London, Dracula attacks Mina and fed her his blood in an attempt to control her. Image: BBC. Dracula has the power of immorality if he sticks to the immoral way of life. Dracula is killed at the end of the original novel Image: BBC. Dracula then disintegrates into dust and Mina is freed from his curse.
Sadly, Quincey dies of his injuries following the battle. The final chapter of the book is set seven years in the future, with a note written by Harker. Dracula fans will know there is a deleted ending of the story of Dracula. Meet the star behind the vampire. Dracula fans will have to watch the final episode tonight to see how the series will end.
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BBC Serie A. Considering that the novel is named after him, though, Dracula himself makes relatively few appearances after Jonathan leaves Castle Dracula at the end of Chapter 4. It seems that Stoker realized that the main point of the novel should be the relationships that develop between the good guys, or the "Crew of Light," as they come to be called. So at the end, Dracula's death is of relatively little importance—it's all about Quincey and the others.
So if one of them has to die, does it have to be Quincey? Our opinion: Yep, it sure does. First of all, he's the character we know least about. He never records a journal, so we never hear his point of view. We never meet any of his family members, or even hear of their existence. He seems hardly to have a history at all, beyond his past exploits as a hunter and outdoorsman and his longstanding friendships with Jack Seward and Arthur Holmwood.
He's also the only American character. Maybe, by killing off the American, Stoker is betraying a sense of rivalry between Great Britain and the United States. After all, at the turn of the 20th century, Great Britain's power in the world was dwindling while the US economy was growing. You also probably picked up on the fact that this novel is super England-centric: Foreigners are at best a nuisance and at worst a bloodthirsty literally: thirst for blood menace.
Why does Quincey die? Is it because he's the only one who doesn't have a family to be upset about it? Four days later, on the 15th of October, the six people arrive at Varna via the Orient Express, and when they arrive, they place Mina under hypnosis, during which she reports that she still senses the lapping of water against the ship. Van Helsing expresses his desire for them to board the ship as soon as it arrives at Varna.
If they can board the ship before Dracula's coffin is removed, they will have him trapped, for one of the limitations of vampires is that they cannot cross running water. On the 17th, Jonathan notes in his journal that Van Helsing has secured admittance for the group to board Dracula's ship as soon as it arrives, so that they may more easily carry out the extermination of the vampire.
A week later, they receive a telegram from London reporting that the ship was sighted at the Dardanelles. Seward, therefore, assumes that it will arrive the next day. While waiting, Dr. Seward and Van Helsing are concerned about Mina's lethargy and her general state of weakness.
They wait for two days and still the ship does not arrive. On the 28th of October they receive a telegram reporting that the ship has arrived at the port of Galatz, a city on the coast, near Varna.
Van Helsing offers a theory that when Mina was weak, the Count had pulled her spirit to him; now, the Count knows of their presence, as well as their efforts to trap and exterminate him. At present, however, Mina is feeling free and healthy, and she and Van Helsing use their knowledge of criminology to deduce that the Count is a "criminal type" — hence, he will act as a criminal, and therefore, his main purpose will be to escape his pursuers.
It is only now, this late in the novel, that we learn the real reason why Dracula has come to England: his country is "barren of peoples," and England is teeming with numbers of new victims.
Since Count Dracula brought with him fifty boxes of earth, one can assume that he was intending to stay in England quite some time. The central incident of these chapters is the infection of Mina: She has a mark on her forehead, a sign that she is "unclean," that she is "infected" with vampirism.
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