The New Lexicon Websters Encyclopedic Dictionary of the English Language defines a theme as a structurally important element in a composition developed, repeated and or inverted, to which the work is chiefly concerned. In Bram Stoker's classic novel Dracula, a myriad of mundane lives become intertwined with fantastic events as a journey of strife and fear unfolds. One by one the party of heroes, which includes: the Harkers, Dr. Seward, Dr. Van Helsing, Arthur Holmwood, and Quincey Morris, gets drawn in from the comforts of western lives and ideas into Dracula's sphere of supernatural horror. Dracula, as most have come to know, is a vampire native to Transilvania, a remote region of eastern Europe. Initially only Jonathan Harker comes into contact with Dracula, being the solicitor through which he buys land in London. However, this lays the foundation for the others to get involved as Dracula comes to London. As the group realizes the threat posed by Dracula and decides to act on it, they are at a loss to combat this being which seems unnatural and abhorrent to them. The real contrast of the story comes from the heroes being ordinary people of a western mindset; not believing what science cannot prove, while their antagonists are of an extra real nature. In the end the heroes prevail over Dracula only by accepting the existence of the supernatural and embracing it to overcome their obstacles. The central theme in Dracula is the struggle with the supernatural element as is evident trough the supernatural nature of the obstacles the heroes face, the extra-real power of the villain they come up against, and the way in which they must embrace the supernatural to prevail. .
Time and again the heroes are faced with an obstacles which lay outside the realm of conventional knowledge. One of the greatest struggles in the novel is the struggle to fight the vampirism that is encroaching on the life of Lucy Westerna.
