Dracula
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DRACULA
By Bram Stoker
BRAM STOKER
•Was born in Contlarf (near Dublin,
Ireland) on November 8 of 1847.
•He met the actor Henry Irving in
1876, two years later became the
acting manager at the Lyceum Theater.
•His first novel The Snake’s Pass was
published in 1890.
•Stoker died on April 20, 1912 in London.
•Dracula was published on 1890:
• He started the novel on 1890, year it was rumored he entered the order of the Golden Dawn.• Epistolary novel that appears written in the form of realistic diaries.
DRACULA
Jonathan Harker
Arthur Holmwood
Mina Murray
Lucy Westenra
Renfield
Dr. John Seward
Dr. Van Helsing
Quincey Morris
suitors
Engaged
Engaged
Master/servant
Mentor
Doctor/patientVictims
Employer
Jonathan Harker, travels to
Count Dracula’s castle, and
finds himself prisoner of the
Count.
Jonathan falls under the spell of three beautiful and seductive women.
PLOT
Lucy receives three marriage proposals Quincey Morris, Arthur Holmwood and John Seward.
Mina finds Lucy in the town cemetery and believes she has seen a dark figure with red eyes over Lucy.
All Van Helsing’s efforts to maintain Lucy healthy fail
A wolf breaks into the Westerna house and some days later Lucy dies
Lucy is now part of the “Un-Dead” so her fiancée plunges a stake through her heart and then they cut off her head.
Undead:Such creatures are immortal and immensely strong. However, they also have certain weaknesses, they cannot survive without blood and they must look for shelter in the earth or in a coffin.
In order to kill Dracula, they must first track down his fifty boxes of earth
Dying, Renfield admits that Dracula often visited him, promising him flies, spiders, in return for Renfield’s obedience.
That night Dracula arrives at the asylum and he drinks Mina’s blood.
Then, slicing his own chest, he pressed her lips to the cut and forced her to drink his blood.
Dracula had fled England. The band travels to Transylvania. Van Helsing and Mina are now very near the castle.
Van Helsing seals the castle doors with wafers to deny forever the count’s entry.
Jonathan sees Dracula he cuts his throat and Quincey Morris plunges his knife into the count’s heart.
S E V E N Y E A R S PA SS, J O N AT H A N A N D M I N A H AV E A S O N N A M E D Q U I N C E Y.
THE MYTHVlad Draculea (son of the dragon) was prince of Wallachia (Romania) during 1456 to 1462.
He was best known for the cruel punishment he imposed during his reign in fact impalement became his favorite method of torture and execution.
READER’S RESPONSE
•Nowadays, people are still seduced by fear, and have curiosity for the
supernatural, evil and frightening; Dracula catches our attention because
Vampirism has always been connected with the manifestation of sexual
wishes, and tension between fear and desire.
•Dracula deals with one of the great human conflicts:
GOOD VS. EVIL
•Dracula became a classic of gothic horror because it primarily is a projection not only of the Victorian Age’s fear but also of everyone’s fears and desires.
EXCERPT“In a hard and warlike time he was celebrate that he have more iron nerve,
more subtle brain, more braver heart, than any man. In him some vital
principle have in strange way found their utmost. And as his body keep strong
and grow and thrive, so his brain grow too. All this without that diabolic aid
which is surely to him. For it have to yield to the powers that come from, and
are, symbolic of good. And now this is what he is to us. He have infect you, oh
forgive me, my dear, that I must say such, but it is for good of you that I
speak. He infect you in such wise, that even if he do no more, you have only to
live, to live in your own old, sweet way, and so in time, death, which is of
man's common lot and with God's sanction, shall make you like to him. This
must not be! We have sworn together that it must not. Thus are we ministers
of God's own wish. That the world, and men for whom His Son die, will not be
given over to monsters, whose very existence would defame Him. He have
allowed us to redeem one soul already, and we go out as the old knights of the
Cross to redeem more. Like them we shall travel towards the sunrise. And
like them, if we fall, we fall in good cause.”
THANKS FOR YOUR
ATTENTION
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