Dracula
Jonathan Harker
The young solicitor
A newly qualified English solicitor who travels to Castle Dracula on business and escapes with his life and his journal. He is engaged to Mina Murray.
Jonathan Harker is twenty-five, polite, hardworking and eager to prove himself. His firm sends him to Transylvania to finish a property deal with Count Dracula, and he keeps a careful journal of the trip. He is observant, which is how he notices that his host has no reflection and crawls down walls like a lizard.
Jonathan is not a natural fighter, but he is brave and stubborn. He wears the crucifix an old woman gives him at Bistritz, though he is an English Churchman, because he cannot refuse a gift offered with such heartfelt care. What drives him most is his love for his fiancée, Mina, whose name is on his lips when he thinks he is about to die.
“The castle is a veritable prison, and I am a prisoner!”
In the story
Contains spoilers.
Trapped in the castle, Jonathan is forced to write false letters home and barely survives an attack by the vampire brides. When he finds Dracula asleep in his earth box, he strikes with a shovel but the Count's gaze stops his arm. He escapes down the outer wall and wakes in a hospital in Budapest, where Mina finds him and they marry.
Back in London he recognizes a younger Dracula on Piccadilly and joins the hunting party. In the end, he is the one who slashes Dracula's throat with his kukri at the castle gates. Years later, he and Mina are home in the English sunshine with their young son.
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