Literature 5: Dracula

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Literature 5: 
Dracula

Assignment 2

Take a look at two trailers of Dracula. If you were to direct a Dracula movie, what would it look like? What would it be about? Which actors would you use? Etc. 

Deadline = 7th of June 2023
The bonus will be added to your literature test grade (which is a SE (school examen) grade!)

1. Take a guess: The story of Dracula is the basis of all vampire books/films, but when was it written?

1. 1623
2. 1775
3. 1897
4. 1925

2. Take a guess: True or False "The character Dracula is based on the 15th century prince Vlad the Impaler."

1. True
2. False

3. Take a guess: The story of Dracula takes place in Transylvania, which is located where?

1. Ukraine
2. Romania
3. Russia
4. Poland

4. Take a guess: True or False "The name Dracula comes from Draculea, which means Son of the Dragon."

1. True
2. False

5. Take a guess: How is Dracula eventually killed in the book?

1. Forced to eat garlic
2. Forced to drink poisoned blood
3. Buried alive
4. Stabbed in the heart

Dracula 

- 1897 by Abraham (Bram) Stoker
- Basis of all vampire movies & books
- Based on Vlad III / Vlad the Impaler from the 15th century
- Also known as Draculea ("son of the dragon")

- Gothic Novel: 1. unrealistic setting (spooky castle)
                                2. scary events (vampires)
                                3. sensational plots (lots of murders)

The book "Dracula"

- The story is told in a series of journal entries from the main           characters.

- This is also called an epistolary novel. (Literally a series of               written documents)

- We see 4 different perspectives, Jonathan, Mina, Lucy and              Doctor Sewart.

The Book 'Dracula'

- Main character: Johnathan Harker (a lawyer)
- Travels to Transylvania (Eastern Europe)
- Count Dracula invites him to stay

- Harker notices signes that Dracula is a monster

         - Desire for blood, crawling along walls,
            long teeth 
- Jonathan tries to escape 

The Book 'Dracula'

- Story turns to Mina Murray (Jonathan's fiancée)
- Foreign ship wrecks on the shore nearby 
- Cargo: fifty boxes of earth sent by Count Dracula
- Mina's friend Lucy starts sleep walking on the cemetery 
- Lucy falls ill and Prof. Van Helsing comes to see her

- Van Helsing orders that Garlic should be put in Lucy's room

The Book 'Dracula'

- Mina goes to Budapest to meet up with Jonathan

- Van Helsing gives Lucy a blood transfusion, but she escapes

- A wolf attacks the town, scaring Lucy's mother into a heart attack and killing Lucy

- Lucy comes back as a vampire

- They find Lucy preying on a child as a vampire

The Book 'Dracula'

- When Lucy's sleeping they stake her heart and cut off her head
- Mina & Jonathan get married in Budapest
- Van Helsing, Holmwood and doctor Seward track down the boxes of earth

- A mental patient Renfield starts to pray on Mina

- Mina turns into a vampire

The Book 'Dracula'

- Van Helsing and the others clean the boxes of earth forcing the count to return to Transylvania

- They track down the count 

- Jonathan and Quincey manage to kill him

6. Who was the author of Dracula?

1. Horatio Troker
2. Abraham Stoker
3. Jonathan Broker
4. Ishmael Croker

7. Which of the following is not a characteristic of a Gothic novel?

1. Scary events
2. Sensational plots
3. Mysterious characters
4. Unrealistic setting

8. What is the job of Jonathan Harker?

1. Secretary
2. Journalist
3. Writer
4. Lawyer

9. Which of the following is not mentioned as a clue in the book that Dracula is a vampire?

1. Afraid of garlic
2. Desire for blood
3. Crawling along walls
4. Long teeth

10. What happens to Mina's friend Lucy?

1. She is imprisoned
2. She gets killed
3. She gets cured
4. She escapes

11. Count Dracula has the power to appear as mist or dust.

1. True
2. False

12. Which famous Historical Figure does count Dracula as his descendant?

1. Vladimir Putin
2. Napoleon
3. Attila the Hun
4. Winston Churchill

Check the reader:

Literature 5: Dracula
- Read the background information
- Answer the questions (using the internet)
- Check your answers (see Its Learning)
- Work on the 2nd Assignment

Modern Vampire Retellings

Vampire diaries, the originals, legacies

Twilight

Empire of the vampire

Buffy the vampire slayer

Mortal instruments

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Excerpt from Dracula

"I must have been asleep, for certainly if I had been fully awake I must have noticed the approach of such a remarkable place. In the gloom the courtyard looked of considerable size, and as several dark ways led from it under great round arches, it perhaps seemed bigger than it really is. I have not yet been able to see it by daylight."

Excerpt from Dracula

Hitherto I had noticed the backs of his hands as they lay on his knees in the firelight, and they had seemed rather white and fine; but seeing them now close to me, I could not but notice that they were rather coarse—broad, with squat fingers. Strange to say, there were hairs in the centre of the palm. The nails were long and fine, and cut to a sharp point. As the Count leaned over me and his hands touched me, I could not repress a shudder. It may have been that his breath was rank, but a horrible feeling of nausea came over me, which, do what I would, I could not conceal. The Count, evidently noticing it, drew back; and with a grim sort of smile, which showed more than he had yet done his protuberant teeth, sat himself down again on his own side of the fireplace. We were both silent for a while; and as I looked towards the window I saw the first dim streak of the coming dawn. There seemed a strange stillness over everything; but as I listened I heard as if from down below in the valley the howling of many wolves.