Point of Significance #3 - Conflict

      In Dracula, the conflict that I found to be the most interesting was man versus self. Jonathan's self-doubt was what ended up as the cause of his being troubled. This was interesting to me because it did not occur to me that doubting yourself could be more harmful to your sanity than believing some realities. As soon as Jonathan was told by his wife, Mina(who learned this information from Dr. Van Helsing), that all the information about the Count that he had obtained was fact, he became more and more like his usual self. After Jonathan has had time to proccess this, he realizes that he is no longer afraid of the Count, because what he really feared was that he was insane. Knowing that everything he saw and had written was true, Jonathan was able to trust in himself again, which was a great relief to him. By overcoming this conflict within himself, Jonathan became an even stronger man than he was before.