Which theme does this excerpt from Bram Stoker’s Dracula reflect? Dracula by Bram Stoker (excerpt) In his life, his living life, he go over the Turkey frontier and attack his enemy on his own ground; he be beaten back, but did he stay? No! He come again, and again, and again. Look at his persistence and endurance. With the child-brain that was to him he have long since conceive the idea of coming to a great city.