LEVEL 3 PENGUIN READERS Teacher Support Programme Dracula Bram Stoker for help. Lucy dies and is buried. A number of children are then found with marks on their necks and Van Helsing knows that Lucy has come back to life as a vampire. He and his companions go to the coffin and push a wooden stake into her heart and cut off her head. Van Helsing sets out a plan to kill Dracula. The men first go to Carfax House‚ where Dracula is thought to be hiding‚ but they find nothing except old
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In Dracula‚ Dracula’s house is shown as a dark‚ gloomy and creepy castle. Bram Stoker shows how the setting is affected by the atmosphere by going into detail of how Jonathan Harker feels when approaching Dracula’s house for the first time. On the trip to Dracula’s house Jonathan noticed the townsmen reacting strangely once they found out that he was heading to Dracula’s castle alone. One of the citizens ended up giving Jonathan a crucifix and told him that it was a charm or guard against the evil
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“It was Stoker who with the stroke of his pen‚ forever linked the real clad with traditional beliefs in malefic spirits that return from the draad to plague the living. Stoker welded these elements into the bloodthirsty Count Dracula the immortal symbol of evil.” Bram Stoker was a writer who used Vlad Tepes’s image to create the famous vampire of his book‚ “Dracula.” Vlad was the perfect candidate due to his unusual methods. Dracula‚ similar to vlad‚ was created to be cruel and bloodthirsty feared
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Dracula is about the defeat of a blood-thirsty‚ devilish vampire‚ but his demise could not have been accomplished without the use of the Christian religion. The team uses a variety of symbols from Christianity that killed Dracula and protects them from being harmed. Dracula is this Satanic being that in the end is defeated by the power of God. In Dracula‚ Bram Stoker uses various Christian symbols in the fight against Dracula‚ the satanic being‚ to illustrate the good of Christian religion and the
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In passage #1 of Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula‚ Stoker describes an event in which Dr. Seward‚ Quincey Morris‚ Lord Godalming‚ and Van Helsing decapitate Lucy in her vampiress state in order to truly kill her. Through Dr. Seward’s description of actions done by the men in order to kill Lucy‚ and the pathetic fallacy described after their task was complete‚ Stoker conveys a tone of relief in the passage. The men needed to decapitate Lucy and fill her mouth with garlic in order to truly end her life
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cultural and national identity through the style of the text‚ the imagery of the clothing and appearances of people. There is also indication to context through the beliefs of people in the places that Jonathan visits and their rejection towards him. Bram Stoker uses this cultural and national identity to contrast the one of that Jonathan possesses. Throughout the text‚ there is extensive description on the appearances of the people and sometimes architecture of the differences places the protagonist visits
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A classic‚ written in 1897‚ that depicts the elements of gothic literature with the ideas of the Victorian Era‚ is a horror story called Dracula. Written by Bram Stoker‚ the adventure is told in an epistolary format‚ narrated in multiple perspectives through journals‚ letters‚ and newspaper articles. Dracula was based off of a real life ruler of Romania‚ named Vlad Dracul III. It takes place mainly in England‚ but also in other various places of Europe. Moreover‚ it is about a group of seven people
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Renfield: A Tracking Device Dracula‚ written by Bram Stoker in 1897‚ is a novel that has influenced generations of thrilling gothic novels and horror movies alike. The vampire Count Dracula is not the first of his kind in literary history but he is without a doubt the most famous. Most novels written about vampires after 1897 can trace some of its roots to Dracula. One of the unique characteristics about the novel is the point of view in which the novel is written. The story is told through letters
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In our lives‚ as in literature‚ Christian symbols have great meaning. In the novel ‘Dracula’‚ the author Bram Stoker shows that Count Dracula perverts elements of Christian tradition. To pervert something is when you turn right to wrong. Throughout the book‚ the use of setting‚ symbols‚ and specific events effectively displays Dracula’s perversion of Christian tradition. The setting in the novel contributes to how Dracula’s perversion of Christian elements is significant. Referring to the novel
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part of popular culture and offer insight into the fears of society. Count Dracula‚ inspired by Vlad III Dracula‚ was created by Irish author Bram Stoker. This mythical creature was created during the 19th century in gothic literature‚ Stoker put together what at the time was frightening to people. Society at the time was afraid of going outside at night because they had little to no protection against wild animals‚ Stoker took this into account and created a half bat half man creature that lives
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