Genre
Fictional novel
Setting and Context
The action takes place in present time in England.
Narrator and Point of View
The action is told from the perspective of a third-person subjective point of view.
Tone and Mood
The tone and mood is a neutral one.
Protagonist and Antagonist
The protagonists are Paul and his family and the antagonist is the vampire.
Major Conflict
The major conflict is between normality and fantasy.
Climax
The action reaches its climax when Paul's daughter finds out that Paul is actually looking for her mother, not Dracula.
Foreshadowing
The fact that the vampire is still alive even after everyone did everything to kill him is foreshadowed by the initial story of the previous historian who tried to kill the vampire and was unsuccessful.
Understatement
In the second part of the book, the narrator claims that Paul's search has nothing to do with Vlad Tepes. This is however an understatement because the narrator later reveals that Paul's wife was a descendent of the former Romanian leader.
Allusions
One of the main allusions here is the idea that no one can escape their fate, no matter how much a person may try.
Imagery
N/A
Paradox
We have a paradox in the last part of the story in which the narrator described how Paul's wife, who was bit by a vampire and was terrified by them, spent her life trying to find the vampire and kill it.
Parallelism
A parallel is drawn between Paul and Rossi, two men who at some time in history tried to take down the vampire. The parallel is used here to show that humanity has largely the same ideas and views about the future and these will always unite humanity as a whole.
Metonymy and Synecdoche
The blood is used in this novel as a general term to make reference to the idea of life.
Personification
We have a personification in the sentence "the book spoke the truth".
