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A. In Bram Stoker's Dracula, advances in forms of communication and medical approaches greatly assisted in the battle against Dracula.

I. Forms of communication served as a major tool in the 18th Century, but ultimately servedin the win over evil.

a. "So here I am finishing my entry in my phonograph diary whilst I await her"(235).

b. "By this time my mind was made up that the diary of a doctor who attended Lucy might have something to add to the sum of our knowledge of that terrible Being"(356).

c. "Mr.Morris took me to the room in the hotel where our rooms had been ordered by telegraph, he being the one who was spared, since he does not speak any foreign language"(394).

II. Advances in medicine and transportation served as a vital role in the defeating of Dracula.

a. "There is not time to be lost. She will die for sheer want of blood to keep the heart's action as it should be. There must be a blood transfusion at once"(127).

b. "Then he mixed a narcotic, and coming over to the bed, said cheerily--'Now, little miss, here is your medicine'"(105).

c. "I shall have to invent a new classification for him, and call him a zoophagus maniac"(80).

III. The 18th Century laid witness to the defeat of a great evil, but was only due to the new forms of communication and medical advances brought about during the struggle for good.

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