Q # 3: What pov does the story use? Is it consistent in its use of pov? If shifts are made, are they justified?

In this book, Dr. Seward, Jonathan Harker, Mina Harker, Lucy Westenra, and Van Helsing (at short times) all share their points of view by the usage of the epistolary (letter and journal) format of the book. All of these are told first person, obviously, and the book never deviates from this unless the author adds newspaper articles from the area surrounding the story. This is mainly for the purpose of revealing parts of the plot that the main characters cannot witness themselves, such as the ship that is travelling to Whitby with Dracula's boxes. Other than in this case, the book is very consistent in its usage of point of view. Because of this, we are able to understand the ideas that are happening in the book from many perspectives. It is also necessary for this to happen, as the characters that are turning into vampires (Mina and Lucy) describe the feelings they have during their slow transformation, while the onlooking characters who are not experiencing the pangs of vampirism can describe them from an outsider's perspective. This plays an important role when the characters are too weak to write, or are silent for various reasons. In addition to all of this, the characters all have markedly different personalities, which make their tellings of the plot all very different. This is very interesting, because on many occasions the same story is told for parallel perspectives.