by Bram Stoker

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Questionnaire

Question 3:

Question 1:

Question 2:

Name the two main settings in which this story takes place.

Name two of the eight main characters in the story.

Which biblical being does Dracula represent?

a. Paris and Transylvania

b. Amsterdam and Budapest

c. Berlin and Belgrade

d. London and Transylvania

a. Dracula and Jake

b. Arthur and Jonathan

c. Abraham and Chad

d. John and Preston

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Question 6:

Question 4:

Jonathan is in Transylvania to:

a. study history

b. to plan his honeymoon

c. do research on vampire myths

d. for a business trip

Who is Lucy?

a. a girl who turned into a vampire

b. a random old woman

c. the homeless aunt of John

d. a patient at the asylum

What is the main format of the book, Dracula?

a. a collection of letters

b. a collection of diary entries

c. a 3rd person recount of an experience

d. a script for a play

by Bram Stoker

Thesis

In Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Count Dracula’s unquenchable greed for power, which leads to a disregard for human life, creates a struggle between good and evil.

Dracula

• Power-hungry
• ruthless
• represents Satan

About the Author: Bram Stoker

Power-Hungry

Essay Prompt

"Your girls that you all love are mine already-my creatures to do my bidding and you will be too."

• Past: held great power

1983. From a novel or play of literary merit, select an important character who is a villain. Then, in a well-organized essay, analyze the nature of the character’s villainy and show how it enhances meaning in the work.

Themes

Ruthless

Good vs. Evil

Christian Salvation

• humans vs. Dracula
• God vs. Devil

• Lucy was able to regain her pure soul
• Dracula

• After deceiving Renfield with false promises
• "Come in, Lord and Master!"(281)
• "He sneered at me, and his white face....he went on as though he owned the whole place, and I was no one."(281)
• "....I tried to cling to him, he raised me up and flung me down."(282)

Science vs. Superstition

Female Sexuality

• born in Dublin, Ireland 1847 as Abraham Stoker.
• Trinity College
• managed the Lyceum Theater, Sir Henry Irving
• Dracula in 1897
• theatrical, literary, and film adaptions

• West vs East
• modern science vs folktales

• Mina, Lucy, 3 weird sisters
• Lucy's transformation into a vampire

Satanic

"Why can't they let a girl marry three men, or as many as want her, and save all this trouble?"

¨When the Count saw my face, his eyes blazed with a sort of demonaic fury, and he suddenly made a grab at my throat. I drew away, and his hand touched the string of beads which held the crucifix.¨

Summary

Rhetorical Devices

• Genre: Gothic Fiction
• Setting: Dracula's castle in Transylvania & London
• 6 heros fight Dracula

• Style - Diary entries
• Allusion - Dracula (Vlad Tepes III), blood (bible), Czarina Catherine (Russian empress)
• imagery - bat, dog, wolf, fog

Symbols

• Dracula - Antichrist
• Humans - good
• Mina and Lucy - purity
• The 3 weird wives - sexual, lascivious side of women
• East - traditional, superstitious
• West - Modern, technological

Characters

Dracula

Abraham Van Helsing

Dr. John Seward

Jonathan Harker

Lucy Westenra

Mina Murray

Arthur Holmwood

Quincey Morris

• Moonlight - eternity and immortality
• The number 3 - the earth, heavens and water
• Blood - life