Dracula In the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker Dracula wishes to buy an estate in London. He plans on moving from Transylvania to the great city of London that is growing and becoming more modern and industrialized. He now lives in his castle that is hidden away in the forest and has many mysterious rooms. Dracula has lured Jonathan Harker into coming to his castle with the intentions of finding a home in London. He speaks with Harker about London and its beauty saying that he wants to learn to be of the land and that he wants to seem as if he blends in with the people. Dracula’s hunger for London is based upon the past and his families history. It has to do with the drive for power and his hunger to rule and to redeem his family name. In Transylvania he already has control of the people they fear him and are aware of his powers but in the new emerging city of London it would be a new challenge to claim his throne. Dracula speaks about London as if it were a place of prized possession. He talks about its beauty and the wanders of it. Dracula has studied London and its history. He has taken time to read about London and to learn the language of the people. He wants to make sure that when he arrives in London he can blend into the crowd and they cannot tell that he is from another land. Dracula tells Harker, “I am content if I am like the rest, so that no man stops if he see me, or pause in his speaking if he hear my words, to say, ‘Ha, ha! a stranger!’” (26). Dracula wants to make sure that when he arrives to London he can blend into the big crowds of people and not stand out from the rest in a sense that he is different from them but instead one of them. Then, he begins to mention the differences between Transylvania and London. Such that, in Transylvania he is a master of the people and he has been ruling them and that once in London he will be a