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Dr. John Seward is a fictional character appearing in Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula. Abraham "Bram" Stoker (8 November 1847 – 20 April 1912 was an Irish writer of novels and short stories who is best known today for his 1897 horror Dracula is an 1897 novel by Irish author Bram Stoker, featuring as its primary Antagonist the vampire Count Dracula.

In the novel

Seward is the administrator of an insane asylum not far from Count Dracula's first English home, Carfax Abbey. A psychiatric hospital (previously called insane asylum, mental hospital; or derogatorily looney bin, nut house or Funny Farm) is England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland Throughout the novel, Seward conducts ambitious interviews with one of his patients, Renfield, in order to understand better the nature of life-consuming psychosis. This article is about the character in Bram Stoker's Dracula For the card game please see Renfield (card game. Psychosis (from the Greek ψυχή "psyche" for mind or soul and -οσις "-osis" for abnormal condition with adjective psychotic As a psychiatrist, Seward enjoys using the most up-to-date equipment, including using a recording phonograph to record his interviews with his patients and his own notes. The phonograph, or gramophone, was the most common device for playing recorded Sound from the 1870s through the 1980s Several chapters of the novel consist of transcriptions of Seward's phonograph recordings.

He is best friends with Quincey Morris and Arthur Holmwood. Quincey P Morris is a Fictional character in Bram Stoker 's novel Dracula. The Honourable Arthur Holmwood (later Lord Godalming) is a Fictional character in Bram Stoker 's novel Dracula. All three propose to Lucy Westenra the same day. Lucy Westenra is a Fictional character in the novel Dracula (1897 by Bram Stoker. Although Lucy turns down Seward's marriage proposal, his love for her remains, and he dedicates himself to her care when she suddenly takes ill.

He calls in his mentor, Abraham Van Helsing, to help him with her illness, and he helps Seward to realize that Lucy has been bitten by a vampire and is doomed to become one herself. Vampires are mythological or folkloric revenants who subsist by feeding on the blood of the living After she is officially destroyed and her soul can go to Heaven, Seward is determined to destroy Dracula. The soul, according to many religious and philosophical beliefs is the self-awareness, or Consciousness, unique to a particular living Heaven may refer to the physical heavens the sky or the seemingly endless expanse of the Universe beyond The novel's epilogue mentions that Seward is now happily married. This article is about the literary epilogue See Epilogue (disambiguation for other uses of "Epilogue" or "Epilog"

In adaptations

Seward often appears in different adaptations of Dracula but in a wide variety of different roles. The most common change is portray him, not as Lucy's suitor, but as her father (or sometimes Mina Harker's father). Wilhelmina "Mina" Harker is a Fictional character in Bram Stoker 's horror novel Dracula. This was almost certainly based on the decision made in writing the Hamilton Deane stage adaptation. Dracula is a 1924 stage play adapted by Hamilton Deane from the novel of the same name by Bram Stoker, and subsequently revised by John Such portrayals include:

In recent years, the trend has been to return Seward to his role in the novel, as a suitor for Lucy's hand in marriage:

Gustav Botz played a similar character, Dr. Dracula is a classic 1931 Horror film directed by Tod Browning and starring Béla Lugosi as the title character Dracula ( 1931) is a Spanish-language version of the more famous Tod Browning -directed Dracula starring Bela Lugosi Charles Lloyd Pack ( October 10, 1902 — December 22, 1983) was a British film television and stage actor Dracula is a 1958 British Horror film, and the first of a series of Hammer Horror films inspired by the Bram Stoker novel Paul Müller is the name of Paul Hermann Müller (1899–1965 Swiss chemist Paul Müller (actor (born 1923 Swiss actor Count Dracula (Nachts wenn Dracula erwacht is a 1970 film directed by Jesus Franco and based on the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker Donald Henry Pleasence, OBE, (5 October 1919 – 2 February 1995 was an English stage and film actor. Dracula is a 1979 horror / Romance film starring Frank Langella as Count Dracula. Harvey Herschel Korman ( February 15, 1927 &ndash May 29, 2008) was an American comedic Actor who performed Dracula Dead And Loving It ( 1995) directed by Mel Brooks. It is a parody of the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker, and of some Count Dracula (1977 is a Television Adaptation of the famous Novel Dracula by Bram Stoker. Richard E Grant (born May 5 1957 is an English Actor, Screenwriter and director, perhaps most famous for portraying the world-weary drug-crazed Bram Stoker's Dracula (aka Dracula) is a 1992 horror - Romance film produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola Matthew Johnson or Matt Johnson may refer to Matt Johnson (ice hockey (born 1975 Canadian ice hockey player in the National Hockey League Dracula Pages from a Virgin's Diary is a 2002 Horror film directed by Guy Maddin. Thomas Burke or Tom Burke is a name shared by the following individuals Public officials Thomas Burke (North Carolina (ca Dracula is a television Sievers, in the first film adaptation of the novel, 1922's Nosferatu. Nosferatu A Symphony of Horror is a German Expressionist film by F

In other works

In the alternate history novel Anno-Dracula, where Van Helsing fails and Dracula becomes the ruler of Britain, Seward becomes the murderer known as the "Silver Knife", whose targets are vampire prostitutes who remind him of Lucy. Alternate history or alternative history is a subgenre of Speculative fiction (or Science fiction) and Historical fiction Anno Dracula is a 1992 novel by British writer Kim Newman. The book is an Alternate history novel that contains characters from multiple Jack the Ripper is an alias given to an unidentified Serial killer active in the largely impoverished Whitechapel area and adjacent districts of London Prostitution is the act of performing Sexual activity in exchange for Money.

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