In the 1800s an important period of the Victorian era took place. During this period Dracula was around and people often believed or read about him. One of the characters from that book Dracula was Jonathan Harker. The chapter begins with Jonathan’s journey to Dracula’s castle for a business deal. Jonathan records in his journal that, “It is the eve of St George’s Day… tonight, when the clock strikes midnight, all the evil things in the world will have a sway” (12). This was the first sign of warning given to Jonathan by a Transylvanian lady. As the result of this Jonathan rationalizes the fact and thinks this is ridiculous and shows no fear. Although the lady knew the fact of evil Count Dracula, so she takes the crucifix of her neck and gives it to Jonathan for protection.
On the way to the castle, Jonathan rationalizes many other unknown facts. He says that, “It seemed to me that we were simply going over and over the same ground again” (20). He does not realize that it is about to be St George’s Day as soon as the clock strikes midnight. The car circles around the same place until midnight. Harker totally ignores this strange event. He does not bother to ask the driver about it. The clock strikes midnight and the car stops outside Count’s castle. Harker begins to discover strange behavior of Dracula. He notices that, “I could see him over my shoulder. But there was no reflection of him in the mirror!” (40). Harker begins to feel that vague feeling of uneasiness but later on he forgets about it. He does not believe in these superstitions of these weird surroundings. Later Jonathan decides to explore the castle and to goes into the room he was told not to go in. In one of those doors he says he saw, “ the whole man slowly emerge from the window and begin to crawl down the castle wall over that dreadful abyss, face down, with his cloak spreading out around him like great wings” (52). Harker finally realizes the danger. He is the first believer that knows the fear of Count’s castle. Every night he put the crucifix over his bed before he goes to sleep. Harker has understood the power of that crucifix that lady gave him. But at this point it was too late Dracula had sailed.
The weather played important role on the ship of those sailors. It started out as “splendidly-coloured clouds… the sun dipped below the black mass of…” (109).The crew feared the sudden weather change and the crew sought out to come together and tried solving this issue. They did not know that this was done by Dracula and that they fog was actually created by him too. The crews caption rationalizes it and tries assuring the crew that there is no ghost.
Later on in the story the fear of unknown seem to reveal to the rest of the crew after Lucy’s death. When Lucy was first bitten by Dracula, Quincy and Arthur thought it was cause of her lack of sleep. Then after her lose of blood, Van Helsing started to predict that it was Dracula. So basically in the story science and reason is defeated by unexplainable events and fear.
