Dracula

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  • Created by: art2005
  • Created on: 29-01-23 11:56

" Discuss some of the ways Stoker shapes a reader’s response to COUNT DRACULA in the novel. "

Advantages

  • (Sympathy for Dracula as an outsider being treated like an outsider)
  • Critic: Burton Halton :  "other": the dark, unconscious, the sexuality that Victorian England denied. ... He is also culturally "other": a revenant from the ages of superstition ... But more significantly he is socially "other": the embodiment of all the social forces
  • (AO2) Pick out quotes , picking on STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS and  LANGUAGE ANALYSIS + effects on the reader
  • (AO1) Invasion literature view of the 1897 audience VS. modern audience + to each analysis , PERSONAL RESPONSE

Disadvantages

  • (Threat to the British power)
  • Critic: GEORGE WASSON : "Count Dracula represents those forces in Eastern Europe which seek to overthrow, through violence and subversion, the more progressive democratic civilisation of the West"
  • (AO1)  Comparison to Vlad the Impaler
  • (AO2) Pick out quotes , picking on STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS and  LANGUAGE ANALYSIS + effects on the reader
  • (AO1) Invasion literature view of the 1897 audience VS. modern audience + to each analysis , PERSONAL RESPONSE

Evaluation

Although Dracula's first intentions to simply expand his cultural horizon and real estate properties seem justified, his undying  cruelty towards children, women and people suffering from mental illness is unforgivable. As our opinions on "vampires" tend to be influenced by contemporary adaptations , such as the 1992 Dracula film , of them being portrayed in desirable and sexual ways, which could play with our head and moral compass in regards to Dracula's actions. However, even from a modern exposure to vampire media, Dracula is regardless a vile, poisonous monster whose actions shouldn't be tolerated, not in his home in Transylvania, nor in the outside world.

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