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Jonathan Harker is a fictional character and one of the main protagonists of Bram Stoker's 1897 Gothic horror novel Dracula.An English solicitor, his journey to Transylvania and encounter with the vampire Count Dracula and his Brides at Castle Dracula constitutes the dramatic opening scenes in the novel and most of the film adaptations.
Dracula is gracious, but he has sharp fingernails, hair on his palms, and casts no reflection. After an encounter with Dracula's brides, Harker finds the Count and his brides' sleeping quarters in a crypt, with their eyes open, yet seemingly unaware of his presence. Harker tries to kill Dracula with a shovel to no effect before fleeing the castle.
Lucy's best friend is Mina Murray, who is engaged to Jonathan Harker, a solicitor. Arthur hires his firm to sell several properties to a Count Dracula in Transylvania. Soon after his departure, his employer is murdered, and all documents about the transaction go missing.
The characters of Jonathan Harker and Mina Murray in the novel represent the British Empire, which provides the unmarked, or normal, perspective in Dracula. [13] According to Deborah S. Wilson, "Dracula, produced at the apogee of Britain's Empire, projects anxious themes of invasion and colonization upon a foreign culture, embodied in Count ...
Jonathan Harker (Keanu Reeves), a young lawyer, travels to Count Dracula's castle on business. Dracula (Gary Oldman) discovers that Harker's fiancée Mina (Winona Ryder) looks just like his late wife.
Dracula now concentrates his attention on Harker. Van Helsing uses his remaining strength to throw a hook attached to a rope, tied to the ship's rigging, into Dracula's back. Harker seizes his chance and hoists the count up through the cargo hold to the top of the ship's rigging, where he dies a painful death when the rays of the sun burn his body.
Vampyr, from Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer, features several scenes where protagonist Allan Gray, an occult enthusiast, reads up about the vampire who has an ancient French village under its ...
Jonathan Harker was supposed to travel to Transylvania in the opening scenes of the film. As in the stage play, Dracula was supposed to kiss Mina passionately on the lips. Those things never made it into movie, either because they were considered too expensive, were replaced by rewritten scenes, or were deemed too risky.