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Title: Dracula


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Dracula
  • Bram Stokers

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Bram Stoker
  • Abraham Stoker
  • Born in 1847 in Dublin, Ireland
  • 1897 Dracula Published
  • 1922 First movie based on Dracula ("Nosferatu")
    released in Germany

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Dracula The Myth
  • Vampires had existed in folklore and legend for
    hundreds of years, back to ancient times.

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Misconceptions about Dracula
  • Count Dracula is destroyed by having a stake
    driven through his heart.
  • Count Dracula cannot go out in the sunlight.
  • Stoker's inspiration for the character of Count
    Dracula was Vlad the Impaler.

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Conflicts in Dracula
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Technology vs. Superstition
  • Dracula a romantic figure and Renaissance
    nobleman is pitted against representatives of
    modern law and medicine. These representatives
    fight him with modern technology.

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THEMES
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  • Humanities fear of things that cannot be
    explained scientifically or rationally.
  • A warning against blindly yielding to the wiles
    of sex. Threat of female sexual expression

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  • The Consequences of Modernity
  • The Promise of Christian Salvation

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Motifs
  • Blood
  • It is the source of Draculas life
  • Sexual intercourse (mingling of bodily fluids )
  • Science and Superstition
  • Modernity vs. Old ways
  • Christian Iconography
  • Saved by all things religious

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Symbols
  • The Weird Sisters
  • Stake
  • The Czarina Catherine

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Johnathon Harker
  • English solicitor.
  • Trapped in Draculas Castle
  • Love interest of Mina.

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Mina Murray
  • FiancĂ© of Johnathon.
  • Represents the ideal Victorian woman

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Count Dracula
  • Mysterious Nobleman
  • Transforms into animals to disguise himself

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Dr. Seward
  • Head of mental hospital
  • Lucys former suitor.

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Dr. Van Helsing
  • Represents Good.
  • Takes care of Lucy.
  • Brillant doctor.

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Reinfield
  • Obsessed with Dracula
  • Patient of Dr. Sewards.
  • Crazy
  • Methodical

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Lucy
  • Minas best friend
  • Rich (represents the new woman)
  • Bitten and becomes a vampire

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Arthur
  • Lucys fiancĂ©
  • A Lord
  • Rich
  • Heroic
  • Helps no matter what the danger

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Quincy
  • Texan
  • Lucys suitor
  • Stays friends with Arthur
  • Courageous
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