How The Use Of The Diary Form Narrative Is Beneficial To The Novel Dracula.

How The Use Of The Diary Form Narrative Is Beneficial To The Novel Dracula.


     Bram Stoker, being the creative and intellectual writer himself, wrote

the novel Dracula in the diary form of narrative.  This was a good choice of

how to write the novel since it was very beneficial to the plot of Dracula.

Examples of how the diary form is beneficial to Dracula is seen in his writing

and book.

        One of the greatest benefits of the diary narrative is that the reader

is allowed see, and feel the emotional hearts and souls of the emotional

characters.  This is great because when a character is not feeling too great

and is trying hide something, the reader knows this, and therefore the reader

knows everything that is happening; nothing is being hidden from the reader.

An example of this happening is when Mina is at the insane asylum and is

worried sick about something happening to Jonathan Harker.  Mina hides all that

she feels when Jonathan Harker is near her.  All that Mina is feeling is

written by herself, and what, how she is feeling is ready for a reader to

examine because they are able to see her diary.  If Mina's diary was not open

to the reader, or if Someone was telling of what he or she saw, the observation

could be false and the reader would lose valuable information that would be

valuable to the whole plot of the book.

        Some things that can be noticed about the diary form is that different

views of the same thing can be expressed by many different people; all in first

person view.  Then, along with that, there are extensive and very detailed

descriptions about a thing, or person that is being described.  In the novel,

this is seen as Jonathan Harker is traveling and he describes almost everything,

he does, eat, sees, etc.

        Another use of the diary form is that Bram Stoker can have people "talk

to themselves."  So if the person who is writing in his or her diary, that

person can make notes to him/herself writing "I must ask the Count about this."

So by "talking to him/her own self" in this manner, he is writing it down and

they do not in any way make it so that they seem strange in front of public.

        The good thing about using the diary to write is that it can be used

interchangeably with periodicals and letters being written or read by a person.

In the same way as in a diary, extensive descriptions and large emotional

feelings can be expressed and felt by the reader.  Also, during the usage of

letters, two people conversing will and can be written out in dialog form;

because of 
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