...Dracula questions 1. How long has it been since Mina last heard from Harher? 2. Look up what carrion food is 3. What does Renfield ask Dr. Seward to get him? 4. How does he react when he hears Seward’s response? 5. What happened to the birds? 6. Why is Dr. Seward upset? 7. What are Mina’s worries about Harker? 8. What has Lucy been doing? 9. What calls the attention of Mina, Mr. Wales, and the coastguard on Aug. 6? 10. What is the name of the ship? 11. Where did it come from 12. Whose was the cargo on the ship? 13. Who took possession of the ship? 14. Upon reading the log of the Demeter, what happened in it from july 6 to august 2? 15. How did the last mate die? 16. Why did the captain not leave the ship? 17. What happened to Mr. Swales 18. Describe what Mina discovers at the opening of Chapter 8 19. What happens to Lucy upon her return to the house? 20. When does Mina finally learn something about Harjer? 21. Who writes to Mina? What is revealed in that letter? 22. What happens with Renfield at the end Chapter 8? 23. When mina goes to Harker, what is this condition? 24. When do Mina and Harker get married? 25. When will Lucy and Arthur Write to Dr. Seward? 26. When Renfield goes out again at night, what makes him suddenly calm down? 27. Why does Arthut write to Dr. Seward? 28. What are Seward’s conclusions about Lucy? 29. Who is Dr. Van Helsing? Why does Seward...
Words: 328 - Pages: 2
...Blood Suckers to Love Suckers Growing up as a kid, Vampires always used to scare me. Even on Halloween when parents would answer the front door I would run away. However, when I watching Twilight, I realized that this movie was more romantic than scary. I have seen other vampire movies such as, Dracula, Mom’s got a Date with a Vampire, and even Scooby-Doo and the Legend of the Vampire and those were scarier than twilight. Although I believe the United States of America is the greatest country, I personally believe that there is a case where there is softening in America. Last year, I took an elective class for my senior year that was called, Issues in Modern America. A couple of my friends and I decided instead of the weekly blog post we would do a weekly video podcast. One of our topics for the podcast was the weakening of America. At first, I didn’t think this was an issue, but then I looked at the way we as children grew up and how my parents grew up. There were two words that can easily separate my parents and I and how we got punished as a kid. For me it was getting grounded, not so bad. For my parents, it was the wooden spoon. “Swift flick of the wrist with a wooden spoon to the head if something wasn’t done right.” My dad would always tell me. Although getting beat with a wooden spoon and vampires could not be more opposite, I thought about the podcast me and my friends did and thought, “why are vampires now all about feelings and are not focusing on ‘I want to suck...
Words: 763 - Pages: 4
...| | |Fin de Siècle Writing and Culture. | Discuss any two fictional texts studied in the light of fin de siècle theories of degeneration. The era of the Victorian fin de siècle ‘…from the 1880s to the end of the century…generated an enormous amount of scientific and cultural debate concerning the future civilisation and the human race itself.’[1] It was an era of technical progress, Imperial gain, and a nation at the pinnacle of progress. ‘…bolstered by Darwin’s theory of evolution, Victorians regarded themselves and their society as the acme of human development.’[2] However, it was an era that balanced on the age of a new century that seemed to accentuate and highlight numerous anxieties. Ledger and Luckhurst (2000) further state that this was an ambivalent period; with major progress in science and technology but also a time of real decline, in which Britain’s global economic power was rivalled by Germany and America. This ambivalence at the turn of the century created fears and anxieties concerning the decline of the British race. A crucial influence on British anxieties of decline was underpinned by scientific and medical knowledge known as Theories of Degeneration. Ledger and Luckhurst (2000) state, at this time, that ‘…degeneration was one defining structure which can be traced across many disciplines…’[3] These theories of degeneration impacted over many discourses within Victorian culture...
Words: 2774 - Pages: 12
... Over the years, many legends have been told about the vampires and their monstrous ways. However, specific details about these creatures’ habits differ from story to story. Some say they burn if exposed to sunlight, some say they can only be destroyed with fire; every author interprets the legend in his or her own way. There is only one true symbol that has remained constant in every vampire story ever told, and that is blood. In Bram Stoker’s Dracula, blood is a powerful symbol. Throughout the novel, it represents life, lust, and weakness. The most obvious use of blood symbolism in Dracula is blood symbolizing life. All of the characters, whether they be humans or vampires, rely on blood to stay alive. The more blood Dracula takes from a person, the closer they become to death. At one point, Renfield even says, “[Dracula] had been taking the life out of her” (Stoker 240) when referring to Mina. Blood transfusions are another instance of blood representing life. They serve to “emphasize the “connection” and participation of all four men, focusing on the blood of each individual becoming unified in one body” (Podonsky). This shows that all of the men are giving up a little bit of their blood, or life, in order to try and save Lucy’s. Lust and sexual abuse are constant themes in Dracula, both of which are often represented with blood. Stoker writes, “With his left hand, he held both Mrs. Harker’s hands, keeping them away with her arms at full tension; his right hand...
Words: 440 - Pages: 2
...movement. It’s characterized by relying heavily on the story and design, mise-en-scene, with the weird ambiance and work of art but lightly on editing. According to the shooting, the camera moves slightly with unpredictable camera’s position. As for the illumination, we see harsh distinction of light and shadows for diverse effects, known for Chiaroscuro lightning, symbolizing the occurrence of gloomy phases in human beings and natural world. The sets are a mirror for emotional statuses; indistinct, fuzzy shapes and outlines on set like the slanted house in ‘The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari’, the bizarre town of ‘Hosten Wall’ with its creepy construction, and the mansions of different altitudes and tilted, uneven windows of Count Orlok in ‘Nosferatu’ symbolize unbalance, anxiety, lack of security, and fear. Moreover,...
Words: 452 - Pages: 2
...Have you ever looked at your history teacher and thought he was a little pale? Not your average pale, but ghostly pale, almost vampire pale? Is the delivery man a little hairy? And toothy? An unable to deliver on full moons? These scenarios are fully plausible in Cassandra Clare’s City of Bones, the first book in The Mortal Instruments series. It was originally a trilogy, with the City of Glass being the finale, but readers begged for more, and Clare added three more books to the series and included a prequel and sequel series. In City of Bones Clary Fray discovers a New York that runs in her veins, but one she has never seen. Alongside irresistible Jace, indifferent Alec, and edgy Isabelle, Clary must find her missing mother in a realm full of vampires, werewolves, faeries, and warlocks. Not to mention demons, angels, and Nephilim, the mighty offspring of angels and humans. In City of Bones, Clary and her best friend Simon are clubbing it out, when she sees a group of people no one else can see. Apparently, her mother senses that she’s discovered her ability, so she plans on fleeing to a country home outside the city, causing Clary to storm out of the apartment in search of Simon for consolation. Once she finds him, she has another encounter with the invisible people. Later on, she returns to her apartment, and find it bare from furniture to frames, and soon she finds herself in a crazy spiral of Nephilim (Shadowhunters), and all sorts of magical creatures she never thought...
Words: 704 - Pages: 3
...High school is hard enough for most kids, but for half vampire Vlad, it really bites. First there's his blood cravings and how exactly do you sneak a pint of Blood into your lunchbox? Then there's his big fangs, his ever developing powers that Vlad doesn't how capacity of and the fact that his crush seems to have a thing for his best friend. Add to the mix a strange substitute teacher who makes myths and urban legends the focus of their English lessons, forcing Vlad to confront his dark side in a rather public area, and eighth grade school year pretty much couldn't get any worse. Then the substitute starts asking some rather prying questions and Vlad starts to worry his cover has been blown. Could the new substitute have something to do with the disappearance of Vlad's old English teacher? Vlad needs to find some answers and fast or he might be the next to disappear. With so many teen books about Vampires focusing on a rather romantic view, it's nice to see a book getting back down to the dark, blood sucking roots. The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod promises to be the cure to every a Twilight rip-off out there. Fresh, funny and epicly dark, Eighth Grade Bites is a fabulous book. Vlad hides blood capsules in his sandwiches, eats his steaks extra bloody and accidently chewed on his best friend's neck when he was younger. He is a teenage boy in a very realistic way. struggling with bullies, girls and school and his vampirism doesn't help that.His fangs pop out in embarrassing situations...
Words: 416 - Pages: 2
...Nosferatu and German Expressionism Expressionism itself was an artistic movement that occurred in Europe in the early nineteen hundreds. The movement is said to have started around “1908 as a style of painting and the theatre”. The movement spread across Europe but Germany was considered the epicenter of Expressionism, where it was said to be more intense than any other nation in Europe. The Expressionist style was essentially a rejection of realism. In painting, artists would not use the clever shading techniques, for example, to make the subject look real, like painters at the time had been doing for so long. They might use brighter or darker colors and make people look distorted and often creepy and grotesque. “In late February 1920, a film premiered in Berlin that was instantly recognized as something new in cinema: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari”. Although Dr. Caligari, directed by Robert Wiene, was considered the first Expressionist film and would spark a massive movement in the film industry, it did not come as much of a shock to a lot of film critics since the movement was already so prevalent in other art forms. Nonetheless, many more film makers followed suit in making movies that featured the Expressionist style. One such movie was Nosferatu. Made in 1922 and directed by F.W. Murnau, Nosferatu was for all intents and purposes a horror film. The protagonist, Hutter, who works for a real estate company, is sent to the mysterious estate of a potentially huge...
Words: 1695 - Pages: 7
...Bram Stoker’s Dracula was a piece of literature that was one of a kind in its time frame. The book was so out of the everyday norm for society back then the novel has stuck around for so long. The thought of vampires at this point in time was thought of, but never imagined like it is in this novel. This novel was so unique because Bram Stoker actually portrayed Van Helsing as himself, with all of Bram Stokers education. The way that the novel begins and the break down of how the flow of the novel starts was very entertaining, its as if they went away from the anti-climatic build up of the vampires lair and went to what is Dracula. Although the detail of the story and all the details that were so different of the time most definitely over shadowed Dracula as a character. The overhead of the story was of three males who are all suitors to the young Lucy. Eventually leading to her demise, Lucy is bitten and turned into what is considered a female vampire courtesy of yours truly, Dracula . While each one of the suitors for young Lucy is in a daze to try to grasp whats wrong with her the eventually figure out what is wrong. The transition in the story flowed very well and was most of time very easily understood. The whole concept of how they need to set young Lucy free i believe was very climatic in a sense to where these men had come to marry her also had to kill her which was unique of a novel of this time. Bram Stoker threw so many different little details which made the...
Words: 475 - Pages: 2
...What the Dracula I have just watched the movie Dracula and I would like to give my opinion on it. When o wrote Dracula I imagined something dark and mysterious. When I watched this movie I felt it was over the top. At some points it did a good job showing my ideas but other times it felt like they added something's that just didn't make sense to me. Dracula is about a vampire who feeds on the weak minded and impure women. He plans to move closer to people who don't know about him so he can feed more easily. A group of men, Van Helsing, Arthur, Quincy, Harker, and Seward work to stop Dracula for two women Mina, and Lucy. All the actors/actresses did a great job acting. I really felt like the characters I had wrote in my book had come to life. Some things that the actors did in the movie I felt should not have been done. I won't go into detail to spoil the scene, but I did not imagine Mina and Lucy being as "close" as they were in the film. The opining of the movie was something I didn't write but I liked it a lot. It showed the backstory of Dracula and helped explain his weaknesses, his strength, and the reason he is so attached to Mina. I wrote about how impure the three sisters were but watching them literally take over Harker was more then I expected. I wrote about him being shocked how open the women were not enjoy it. When I wrote this book I intended it to be read by anyone, but this movie I would only recommend to adults who are not a fended by nudity...
Words: 354 - Pages: 2
...When you hear the word Dracula, what words do you associate with him? Dead, scary, vampire? For most, it would be all of the above. However, when speaking about Dracula, no one hardly utter the word man. Dracual depiction drew a fine line of him being both man and monster, but can we really say that he is of man when his able to turn into different creatures? Dracula's complex personality and human form will be discussed throughly in this essay, while also touching on the subject of his sexual needs and wants. When Stoker's character, Dracula is first described in the novel he is described as having a very stong face, thin nose, lofty forehead, massive eyebrows and a rather cruel looking mouth and moustache (22). Reading a description as such does not make the reader 'fall' for Dracula. His description instantly puts fear into the character because his facial characteristics are described like no other, or at least nothing of the familiar. Despite his physical appearance Dracula seems like a very nice and welcoming being. He was nice enough to open his home to Jonathan Harker, he is providing him with a place to stay, and making sure he is fed, sounds like the perfect host, no? Well as Dracula's 'real ways' are revealed throughout the novel, he begins holding Harker hostage, although he could always leave, he just risked being eaten alive by Dracula's mystique power over the wolves. As we read the novel and see that Dracula has the ability to climb walls and spends his sunlight...
Words: 744 - Pages: 3
...3. Otherness and the Empire In Small Island, as well as Dracula, the uncanny is linked to concepts of otherness and orientalism. Within the orientalist mind-set exists a clear distinction between the oriental "other" and the occident (Said, Orientalism 2). The East is represented as weak (Said, Orientalism 152) and feminised (Said, Orientalism 309) whereas the West is strong (Said, Orientalism 321) and masculine (Said, Orientalism 309). In his work Orientalism, Edward Said remarks that in orientalist discourse the West is often depicted as dominant in contrast to the East (321). Moreover, the encounter between the two clashing regions is often portrayed as "an advanced society dealing with a less advanced society, a strong culture encountering a weak one" (Said, Orientalism 321). This notion of strong and weak cultures is connected to colonialism and the idea of the empire. As Said claims in his work Culture and Imperialism, an empire needs this mentality: For the enterprise of empire depends upon the idea of having an empire […] and all kinds of preparations are made for it within a culture; then in turn imperialism acquires a kind of coherence, a set of experiences, and a presence of ruler and ruled alike within the culture. (11, original emphasis) This "idea of having an empire" (Said, Culture and Imperialism 11, original emphasis) is depicted in Small Island. In the very first chapter, we witness Queenie visiting the British Empire Exhibition (Levy, 1). She remarks...
Words: 1765 - Pages: 8
... Halloween is the perfect time to go see a play about Dracula. I went to see Bram Stoker’s Dracula directed by Dan Hodge at the Hedgerow Theatre. Dracula is the story about Lucy Steward who had fallen ill with a mysterious illness. Her father, Dr. Steward who is in charge of an English sanatorium, enlists a specialists, Dr. Van Hesling to figure out what the illness is. Dr. Van Hesling believes that Lucy was bitten by a vampire. The vampire is found to be a man, who goes by the name Count Dracula who had just moved into the mansion across the street. Overall, I thought the play was well acted and entertaining but there was some minor details that took away from the quality of the production. Hedgerow Theatre was originally a grist mill built in 1840 but was turned into a theatre in 1923. The old musty smelling theatre with exposed brick only had 11 rows of seats, with two small balconies on either side of the stage. Although smaller then my elementary school stage, the set designers did a good job making the stage look like a professional production. The set was made to look like the Dr. Stewards office, it had a warm fire place, a desk and a patient bed. The costumes made the play feel authentic because they looked old English clothes worn during that time period. The only problem I had with the set was that the some of the props looked cheap, for example Dr. Van Hesling’s bag look like it was made from a cardboard box and duct tape. The most impressive part of this play...
Words: 452 - Pages: 2
...Leon Ritchens Dr. O’Brien Approaches to Literature 11/14/13 Dracula Supernatural In Bram Stoker’s Dracula, the Count is equipped with the some powers that set him aside from the other characters in the book. These powers allow him to be on a higher tier than the humans he hunts which gives him an edge on the field of battle. Dracula was a Transylvanian count who happened to be a vampire. We are introduced to Dracula as a potential customer of an opulent piece of real estate in London. He is visited by a solicitor by the name of Jonathan Harker. During Harker’s stay, he realizes that some things about Dracula are not right. He notices that the Count is only seen during the night and he always wants to talk, and he tells Harker to stay in his room during the night. One night, Harker sees Dracula scaling the castle wall with a sack that contains a child. Another night, Harker is looking around the castle, despite the Count’s decree to stay in his room, and realizes that most of the doors in the other rooms are locked. He finds an open one and comes to the bed. Soon he is sleepy and is visited by three woman. Dracula comes in the last minute to shoo away the woman before anything sinister continued. Harker faints and wakes up the next morning in his bed. Another night at Castle Transylvania, Harker is witness to Dracula scaling an immense tower. Harker is soon left alone at Castle Transylvania in a trance. Dracula moves to England where he starts his master plan to take...
Words: 1604 - Pages: 7
...Dracula is a Gothic horror novel written in 1897 by an Irishman named Bram Stoker. At the turn of the century, when Stoker wrote this novel, England and much of Europe had fought and overthrown the Feudal systems of Aristocracy and the middle class morality of the Victorian bourgeois was held as the epitome of proper living. England was emerging as a Capitalist power after squashing its foreign invaders. It was this environment that influenced Stoker to characterize his villain as a blood sucking, blue blooded aristocrat. Dracula, as the mouldering aristocrat, is the foreign parasite who, literally sucked the lifeblood of the peasants. By casting Dracula as a Gothic aristocratic villain, Stoker, dramatized for middle-class audiences the exaggerated nature of the class struggle. It is important for the reader to understand the dramatic and philosophical importance of the villain's aristocratic heritage; if Dracula were a peasant, the story would hardly be as suspenseful! Therefore Stoker, in his characterization of Dracula, highlights all that is typical of a corrupt aristocrat: pride, disregard for the common people, callousness, amorality and tyranny. Dracula, as the consummate aristocrat, thinks , “to a Boyar the pride of his house and name is his own pride, that their glory is his glory, that their fate is his fate.” (chapter 3, p 2). Dracula’s disregard for the common people, whom he holds in contempt is evident from his words to Harker, “We Transylvanian nobles love not...
Words: 837 - Pages: 4
