MRS. CONTRERAS Language Arts 9th Grade Eng I IGCSE Honors Room C209

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MRS. CONTRERASLanguage Arts9th Grade Eng I
IGCSE Honors Room C209
Welcome Braddock Bulldogs!!!
2006-2007
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Weekly Forecast 3/19/07 3/23/07

• Monday in class home learning (reading)
• Tuesday "Dracula" (1897) Chpts 7-12
• Wednesday Review Research Project requirements
  sample research paper.
• Thursday "Dracula" (1897) Chpts 13-17
• Friday in class home learning (reading)

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Home Learning

• By Monday, 3/26
• Read "Dracula" Chpts 18-27.
• Read the following works from your IGCSE packet
  Alex La Guma's "The Lemon Orchard
• Patrick O'Brian's "Samphire"
• Doris Lessing's "Flight" "A Woman on a Roof"
• Have a great week!

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Class ResponseTuesday

• How does the character of Dr. Seward mirror
  Victor Frankenstein, and how does his behavior
  inform the theme of madness in the book?
• Gothic fiction is characterized as having a
  picturesque setting, dealing with the
  supernatural in some way, exploring the conflict
  between good and evil, and the corruption of
  lower-class females by aristocratic males. Cite
  incidents from the story that support the four
  criteria.

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Class ResponseThursday

• What is the nature of the Hampstead Mystery
  reported in "The Westminster Gazette"? What can
  the reader infer about Lucy from this mystery?
• List three reasons Lucy must be killed. For what
  reasons is Arthur the one who drives the stake
  into Lucy?

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Ch. 13-17

• Gaby Guadalupe
• Period 6

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Bram Stoker

• He was born near Dublin on November 8, 1847.
• His parents were Abraham Stoker who was a civil
  servant and his mother was a feminist called
  Charlotte Mathilda Blake Thornley.
• He was very sick child due to a unexplained
  disorder and spent his early years of life
  bedridden.
• In his adolescence, he was no longer ill and
  became physically active.

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• He followed his fathers footsteps and became a
  civil servant for eight years, even though his
  main interest was in drama.
• He moved to London and became an actor and the
  manager of Henry Irvings Lyceum Theatre.
• While he was working at the Theatre, he wrote
  Dracula (1897) , which was influenced by The
  Vampyre (1819) by John William Polidri, but was
  mainly influenced by Carmilla (1872) by Joseph
  Sheridan le Fanu.
• And the time he was living is what gave the book
  its sexuality The Victorian Age which was
  completely opposed to expressing any type of
  sexuality. ( especially women) But it was
  expressed in their work.
• He also published The Snake's Pass (1890), The
  Jewel of Seven Stars (1904) and The Lair of the
  White Worm (1911).
• But none has received as much attention as
  Dracula.
• He died on April 20, 1912.

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Vocabulary

• Ague- a fever
• Bier- a platform for a coffin or a corpse
• Caricaturists- artist who make absurd likenesses
  of their subjects by accentuating certain
  features
• Emaciated- extremely thin starved
• Constraint- control
• Contingencies- possible events
• Hansom- a two wheeled horse driven carriage
• Intestacy- the state of being without a legal
  will
• Obsequious- obedient, subservient
• Pedantry-a scholarly display knowledge
• Polyandrist- a woman married to more than one
  husband..
• Post-mortem- after death
• Premonitory- ominous, foreboding
• Preparatory- in preparation for prior to
• Sanction- authorization, permission
• Sexton- a caretaker of church property
• Suavity- having fine matter charm
• Testamentary- pertaining to a will
• Urbane- smooth, elegant

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Chapter 13

• Preparations have been made for Lucys funeral,
  so that she and her mother can be buried together
  (Stoker 177).
• Both Seward and Val Helsing take it upon
  themselves to be in charge of the funeral,
  because no relatives were at hand and Arthur was
  at his fathers funeral (177).
• Val Helsing insists to examine the papers found
  in Lucys bodice himself (177).
• Seward is a bit anxious that Val Helsing does not
  know the English legal requirements which may
  lead to unnecessary trouble (177).
• Val Helsing assures Seward that he knows what he
  is doing and does not want Lucys memorandum to
  fall into the hands of strangers (177).
• Before the funeral Seward and Val Helsing want to
  see Lucy (178).
• When they see her lay in her coffin she looked so
  beautiful, Seward could not believe he is looking
  at a corpse (178).
• Val Helsing had a very stern face and tells
  Seward to remain in the room (179).
• He leaves and returns with garlic and placed the
  flowers around the bed. He takes off a gold
  crucifix he had around his neck and placed it on
  Lucys mouth. He places the sheets back over her
  head and they exit the room (179).

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• Later that evening, Val Helsing approaches Seward
  and tell him to bring postmortem knives the
  following day. John asked if it was necessary to
  perform an autopsy (179).
• Val Helsing says he wants to perform an operation
  where he will cut off her head and take out her
  heart. Seward is extremely surprised and asks why
  he was going to mutilate the girls body if she
  was already dead (179).
• Val Helsing tells him that there is terrible and
  sad days ahead and that he must trust him,
  because he has a reason for why he wants to do
  this (179).
• The next day Val Helsing finds out that someone
  has stolen the crucifix and tells Seward they
  will no longer perform what they discussed the
  previous night (180).
• Mrs. Westernas solicitor came to tell the men
  that all of her property she had left it to
  Arthur (181).
• Arthur later arrives and finds comfort in his
  friend Seward. And they go to see Lucys corpse.
  Lucy looks so beautiful it seemed as if every
  hour her beauty grows (183).
• Arthur sees how beautiful she looks, and
  questions if she really is dead (183).
• He says his goodbyes by kneeling next to her
  coffin and kissed her on her forehead (183).

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• Helsing tells Arthur that Mrs. Westerna left him
  all her property and asks him permission to read
  Lucys papers to see if he can find some evidence
  to find out the cause of her death(184).
• (Minas journal) She and Jonathan where in London
  in the streets and Mina was looking at a
  beautiful girl. At that time Harker grabs her in
  shock (186).
• Mina was confused and did not know what frighten
  him so, and noticed he was looking at a tall,
  thin man, with a beaky nose, and a black
  moustache and pointed beard who was also looking
  at the pretty girl. (186).
• Jonathan is convinced it is Count Dracula and was
  so shocked he fell in a deep sleep and when he
  woke up he remembered nothing. Mina decides not
  to ask him any questions on the subject and chose
  to read his journal (187).
• When they arrived home they find out of Lucy and
  her mothers death (187).
• Then it shows an excerpt by two newspaper that
  talk about children that have been kidnapped by a
  bloofer lady and would return home with
  strange wounds around their necks (191-192).

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Analysis

• Early in the Chapter, we know that Val Helsing
  already knows of what Lucy is becoming..
• And when questioned about the operation, he
  tells Jack he would carry his burden if he could
  and recaps about the promise he gave to Lucy
  before her death.
• He display his righteous character and is their
  only hope to save Lucy.
• He also shows his will to protect, by staying up
  all night patrolling the house and keeping an eye
  on Lucys coffin.
• Mina also displays her love and devotion to
  Jonathan by choosing not to question him to avoid
  him becoming uneasy. And even though she fears of
  what she may read in his journal she will. So she
  can help her husband.

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Vocabulary

• Cicatrized- having formed new tissue around a
  wound during the healing process
• Corporeal- bodily, physical
• Demurely- modestly
• Eccentricities- behaviors or characteristics
  outside the norm oddities
• Fakir- a person who claims to perform magic or
  other supernatural feats.
• Impotent- powerless
• Physiognomist- one who studies facial features
• Receptivity- the state of being ready to receive
  openness
• Redress- to remedy to make amends
• Tumult- a commotion, chaos
• Tussock- a clump of grass or earth
• Verbatim- word-for-word

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Chapter 14

• Mina receives a letter from Val Helsing
  announcing his arrival and asking permission to
  speak with her (194).
• When he arrives they begin to discuss the events
  in which led to Lucys death (195).
• He then asks her of Jonathan's health. She tells
  him of the shock he had days before (199).
• She became overwhelmed talking about the subject
  that Val Helsing consoles her and suggested they
  eat and discuss later (199).
• After they eat, Mina was reluctant to speak of
  the matter thinking that Helsing would think it
  to be queer (200).
• She ends up giving Helsing a copy of Harkers
  journal and he then leaves (200).
• Val Helsing sends a letter to Mina telling her
  that Jonathans journal is strange and terrible,
  but true (201).
• (Harkers Journal) Mina tells him of the meeting
  she had with Helsing. And show him the letter he
  sent (202).

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• Jonathan now remembers the reality of what has
  happened to him and the fact that the Count has
  come to England. He starts a new diary (202).
• (Sewards journal) Renfield has started once
  again, catching flies and began his spider line.
  He notes that he has heard of Arthur regaining
  some of his old cheerfulness (204).
• Val Helsing had come in earlier that day and gave
  him a copy of Westminster Gazette. It speaks of
  the events of the bloofer lady (205).
• He point out that her abductions of little
  children leave them with wounds similar to the
  ones Lucy had. Seward is skeptical and sees no
  link between the two (205).
• But Val Helsing insist on there are things
  science cannot explain and to consider the
  possibility of the supernatural (206).
• Seward finally considers the idea, but does not
  fully understand what the Professor is implying
  (208).
• Helsing tells him that the puncture wounds on the
  children were made by Lucy herself (208).

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Analysis

• In the beginning of the chapter, Mina expresses
  her concern for her husband and frighten by
  everything that has happened to him.
• Throughout his visit Van Helsing constantly
  praises Mina, at one point he calls her Gods
  Woman. There is a turning point in this chapter
  when he lets Mina know of what is happening
• This shows that Mina reflects how a woman should
  be in the Victorian society.
• Mina shows gratitude toward Van Helsing for his
  help he offers for her and Jonathan. And shows
  modesty while Val Helsing praises her.
• Seward shows disbelief in his Professor when he
  relates the events of the bloofer lady and
  Lucy.
• He is also prejudiced by science, this is what
  makes it hard for him to consider Val Helsing in
  his ideas.

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Vocabulary

• Abhorred- hated
• Desecration- the act of abusing something sacred
  sacrilege
• Juggle- a manipulation of someone a trick to
  deceive someone
• Laconically- with few words concisely
• Pourparlers- conversations prior to negotiations
  or final decisions
• Smote- to hit hard
• Sordid- dirty morally wretched
• Unhallowed- not sacred wicked

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Chapter 15

• Seward was angered by the fact Val Helsing would
  propose such a terrible idea (209).
• But Helsing convinces him he would not lie of
  such a matter and would not have taken the time
  to explain it to him (209).
• He told Seward that that night it would be proven
  to him and asked him if he would dare come with
  him (210).
• He agreed to come with him, and they first go to
  visit one of the children that were captured and
  wounded (210).
• They compared the wounds to that of Lucy and they
  were identical (210).
• Later that night they go to Lucys tomb, and when
  it is opened Seward is shocked to see it empty
  (212).
• Since he is reluctant to believe the Professor
  and suggest that her corpse must have been stolen
  (213).

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• Val Helsing was determined to prove to Seward the
  truth of the situation. They then leave to find
  more proof. Val Helsing now leaves with the key
  to Lucys tomb and leaves (213).
• Seward sees what he describes a white streak in
  the dark and Val Helsing returns with a sleeping
  child in his arms. But he had no scar (214).
• The next morning, they go back to Lucys tomb to
  find her in her coffin look very beautiful. It is
  until now Seward realizes the reality of things
  (215).
• Val Helsing now explains the Jack that Lucy is an
  Undead and that her head must be cut off, filled
  with garlic, and a stake run through her heart
  (214).
• They then meet up with Quincy and Arthur. Val
  Helsing explains to the men what they have to do
  and that Lucy is not dead (220).
• Arthur is angered and assumes she was buried
  alive. But Val Helsing convinces Arthur that what
  they were going to do had reason and he would
  come to understand at the cemetery (221-222).

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Analysis

• Seward refuses to believe what the Professor
  tells him, until he sees the tomb and finds Lucy
  there.
• Val Helsing shows conviction, knowledge, and
  courage when he speaks of what has become of
  Lucy.
• Even though his friends are in disbelief and give
  rational reasons to what could have happened to
  Lucy, he remains by what he believes.
• He also shows knowledge by knowing what to do to
  help Lucy and is brave enough to tell this to her
  mourning fiancé and lovers.
• He also shows leadership by guiding the men to
  the reality of the situation.

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Vocabulary

• Adamantine- inflexible, unyielding
• Assimilating- taking in digesting
• Cerements- burial shrouds burial clothing
• Consternation- confusion, bewilderment
• Counteractant- something which acts against
  another, more harmful thing
• Debased- corrupted, degraded
• Exodus- a departure
• Funereal- pertaining to a funeral mournful
• Interstice- a crack, crevice
• Livid- pale discolored
• Phlegmatic- calm, unemotional
• Ploughshare- the blade of a plow
• Repudiated- rejected, dismissed
• Tempered- mild, moderate
• Wantonness- unrestrained immoral behavior

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Chapter 16

• Val Helsing leads the men to Lucy tombs and to
  reassure Quincy and Arthur, Seward confirms that
  they saw Lucys corpse that morning (223).
• They open her tomb and find it empty. All of them
  stayed in a silent state of shock, and Quincy
  asks the Professor if it was his doing (224).
• He explains the occurrences of the past days and
  Seward confirmed (224).
• He then puts communion wafers in the crevices of
  the tomb to prevent Lucy to reentering her tomb
  (225).
• The men then waited for the Lucy the Vampire to
  arrive. They soon see a white figure approach
  with a child in her arms. They see it is Lucy
  with unclean and full of hell fire eyes and fresh
  blood on her face (225-226).
• The men surround her, and she drops the child and
  proceeds to call Arthur seductively. He begins to
  move towards her and Val Helsing comes in between
  with a crucifix (227).
• She drew back and ran past him and she was going
  to enter the tomb. But was stopped by an
  invisible force within steps from the door and
  looked back at the men and gave a look that
  could kill (227).

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• Val Helsing then removes the wafers and Lucy
  entered her tomb. And then replaced them (228).
• They wait until the next day to perform their
  task. Val Helsing then unpacks his belongings and
  explained profoundly the need to complete this
  task (229-230).
• He then suggest that Arthur should be the one to
  hammer the stake in her heart (230).
• And then fell to the floor and was caught by the
  men. When they finally looked at the coffin it no
  longer contained that foul Thing they had
  learned to hate (232).
• Val Helsing and Seward finished the task and
  Helsing planned to see them two nights later to
  discuss the terrible task they have to find the
  author of their sorrow. (232-233).

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Analysis

• Lucy portrays the three weird sisters from
  chapter 3. She shows her voluptuous wantonness
  and preying on children pervert any motherly
  instinct. And completely separates her from
  Victorian standards for women.
• The men were anxious when they confronted Lucy in
  her vampire form. Her sexuality is expressed as
  she calls her fiancé for a kiss. The men know the
  innuendo in her plea for sexual satisfaction.
  They are both repulsed and attracted to her.
• The penetration of the stake into Lucy symbolizes
  intercourse. With her fiancés action, he
  restores Lucys purity and soul. Which implies
  the social Victorian standard of monogamy.

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Vocabulary

• Atonement- the act of making amends
• Carter- a man who drives a cart
• Cike-(dialect) cake
• Derogatory- insulting, belittling
• Paucity- scarcity, sparseness
• Perturbation- uneasiness, anxiety
• Quid- an English pound (currency)
• Sojourn- a visit, stay
• Tacit- implied, understood

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Chapter 17

• Val Helsing arrives to his room and finds a
  telegram from Mina, announcing her and her
  husbands arrival (234).
• Seward is her hostess while Jonathan researches
  the whereabouts of the boxes of earth that came
  from a Transylvania (235 242).
• Seward learns to trust Mina and gives her his
  phonograph diary to learn about Lucys real
  death (237).
• Seward then begins reads Jonathans journal and
  finds the possibility of a connection between the
  days of Renfields weird behavior and Count
  Draculas immediacy (241).
• Renfield at the moment was acting normal and was
  felt ready to be discharged. Yet Seward thought
  about the connection and decided not to release
  him (241).

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• Jonathan finds out that all the boxes where
  delivered to Carfax, but is anxious to know if
  some have been moved recently (242-244).
• Mina is concerned with Jonathan and if what he is
  doing can reopen his fears, now when he has fully
  recovered (244).
• Mina finds herself with Arthur and Quincy, who
  have arrived early for a meeting (245).
• She decides to converse with the gentlemen, yet
  ends up with Arthur while he mourns for Lucy. She
  comforts him (246).
• Soon after she and Quincy form a bond (247).

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Analysis

• In this chapter we can see the clear difference
  between Lucys promiscuity and Minas true
  portrayal of a Victorian woman.
• Mina is constantly praised and considered a great
  and trustworthy woman.
• She consoles Arthur and caressed him as if he was
  a child. Which portrays her maternal quality
  which is an important Victorian virtue in a
  woman.

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THEMES

• CONCERN
• RIGHTEOUSNESS
• DEVILRY
• HORROR
• SEXUALITY
• WANTONNESS
• VICTORIAN VIRTUES
• -MATERNITY AND SEXUAL PURITY
• RELUCTANCE

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Critiques

• Wyman, Leah M., and George N. Dionisopoulos
  state,
• "Dracula is a novel which insists on protecting
  (and patrolling) women as much as it insists on
  patrolling the Empire. The men are forever
  placing protective circles of Holy Wafer and
  garlic flowers around the women. Dracula will
  invade through any gap. It is a novel which
  expresses fears of Dracula's effect upon women
  their sexualisation. While the central threat of
  the novel is the seducing Dracula, the novel is
  populated with female vampires four of the five
  central female characters are vampires. Dracula
  attacks only women."
• Royce McGillivray says,
• "Bram Stoker's Dracula has never been much
  praised for its literary merits. Yet this horror
  novel, first published in May 1897, survives
  today, after more than seventy years of
  popularity, as one of the little group of English
  language books from the nineties still read by
  more than scholars. Because of the succession of
  horror films based on it, whether Dracula would
  have achieved this success solely through its
  intrinsic merits is uncertain. Certainly without
  the films it is hard to believe that Dracula
  would be one of the few proper names from novels
  to have become a household word, known even to
  people who have never heard of the novel. Stoker
  created a myth comparable in vitality to that of
  the Wandering Jew, Faust, or Don Juan. This myth
  has not, so far, been crowned with respectability
  by its use in great literature, yet is it too
  much to suggest that in time even that may be
  achieved? Such a myth lives not merely because it
  has been skillfully marketed by entrepreneurs but
  because it expresses something that large numbers
  of people feel to be true about their own lives

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• Leila May states,
• Dracula embodies the Victorian preoccupation
  with moral and social corruption. Victorian
  society was concerned with the contamination of
  the body and there was a focus on keeping
  categories and boundaries intact. The female body
  as a source of corruption, the association of a
  putrid smell with evil and the fear of evil
  invading the domestic realm are all found in
  'Dracula.
• Brian Stableford says,
• it seems as if the inspiration that led Bram
  Stoker to write Dracula was an unrepeatable
  accident of fate owing more to luck than
  judgment--but that should not detract from the
  credit due to its author. Nobody else ever wrote
  a book like Dracula, and it certainly has not
  been for want of trying.
• Roth Phyllis states,
• Dracula exerts a complex fascination owing both
  to Stoker's skill and to the enduring appeal of
  the Gothic genre of which it is a superb and
  instructive example.

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• S.L Varnado says,
• Bram Stoker's Dracula is one of those rare novels
  that merits the timeworn phrase "it needs no
  introduction." Since its publication in 1897 the
  book has established an undeniable claim on the
  public imagination. Not only has it passed
  through innumerable editions (including foreign
  translations), it has entered the domain of
  popular culture through constant dramatizations,
  including radio, motion pictures, and television.
  The world has taken the book's grim protagonist
  to its heart in a way reserved for only a few
  mythical figures.
• Summers Monatague says
• However, when we have quite fairly, I hope thus
  criticized Dracula, the fact remains that it is a
  book of unwonted interest and fascination.
  Accordingly we are bound to acknowledge that the
  reason for the immense popularity of this romance
  the reason why, in spite of obvious faults it is
  read and reread lies in the choice of subject and
  for this the author deserves all praise....

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Outline

• Thesis Statement Both Mina and Lucy are
  portrayed as Victorian women in Dracula. But in
  these chapters, Mina has become the ideal
  Victorian woman, while Lucys sexuality leads her
  to vampirism.
• In order to understand the difference between
  Lucys and Minas portrayal of a Victorian women
  it must be understood that the Victorians had
  standards which their women had to meet, to be
  accepted by society.
• Maternity and Sexual purity
• We women have something of the mother in us that
  makes us rise above smaller matters when the
  mother-spirit is invoked.(246). Victorians men
  expected their women to be affectionate, kind,
  and docile, they also had to be able to be a
  mother when necessary.
• , the sight was almost too much for me it would
  have been to have stripped off her clothing in
  her sleep whilst living (212) Nakedness in the
  Victorian age was considered sexual.
• 3. Dracula embodies the Victorian
  preoccupation with moral and social corruption.
  Victorian society was concerned with the
  contamination of the body and there was a focus
  on keeping categories and boundaries intact. The
  female body as a source of corruption, the
  association of a putrid smell with evil and the
  fear of evil invading the domestic realm are all
  themes in 'Dracula.
• This critic by Leila May emphasizes how the book
  reflects Victorian society.

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• Lucys transformation changed her Victorian
  values
• Lucys curiosity of promiscuity and sexuality was
  enough to draw Dracula
• towards her and turn her into a voluptuous
  vampire (Undead).
• 'Voluptuousness' is the term employed innumerable
  times to signal the transformation from loving
  bride to loathsome whore, from motherly
  tenderness to callous ruthlessness (Rebecca
  Scott).
• Is most obviously symbolized, and
  unintentionally exposed, by the blood
  transfusions from Arthur, Seward, Quincy Morris,
  and Van Helsing to Lucy Westenra. The great
  friendship among rivals for Lucy's hand lacks
  credibility and is especially strained when Van
  Helsing makes it clear that the transfusions
  (merely the reverse of the vampire's
  bloodletting) are in their nature sexual. Van
  Helsing's warning to Seward not to tell Arthur
  that anyone else has given Lucy blood indicates
  the sexual nature of the operation.23 ( Phyllis
  Roth).
• with careless motion she flung to the ground,
  callous as the devil, the child that up to now
  she had clutched strenuously to her breast,
  growling over it as a dog to growls over a bone.
  The child gave a sharp cry and lay there
  moaning. (Stoker 227)
• Mina within these chapters she has become the
  perfect example of a Victorian woman
• She is continuously praised by all the men she
  meets implying that it must be
• that she is the epitome of a Victorian women.
• One of Gods women fashioned by His own hand to
  show us men
• and other women that there is a heaven where we
  can enter, and that its light can be here on
  earth. So true, so sweet, so noble, so little an
  egoistand that, let me tell you, is much in this
  age, so skeptical and selfish (203).
• Jonathan was holding me by the arm, the way he
  used to in the old days before I went to school.
  I felt it very improper... (186).
• I felt this big, sorrowing mans head resting on
  me, as though it
• were that of the baby that some day may lay on my
  bosom, and I stroked his hair as though he were
  my own child.(246).
• Concluding Statement In conclusion, the most
  important theme found in Dracula is its display
  of Victorian society and its most important
  virtues among women. Women like Mina and Lucy,
  display the best example of a Victorian woman
  which all men find her gracious and one Victorian
  woman who has lost her grace.

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Blooms Taxonomy Questions

• Level 1 Knowledge
• 1. Who does Val Helsing think the bloofer
  lady is? And why?
• 2. What was Sewards reaction to Val Helsing
  when he tells him that Lucy had left the wounds
  on the children?
• 3. What made Lucy recoil when she was
  calling Arthur to come to her?
• Level 2 Comprehension
• 1. Summarize the thoughts that Arthur,
  Quincy, Helsing, and have towards Mina.
• 2. Discuss the effect Val Helsings letter
  to Mina has on Jonathan.
• Level 3 Application
• 1. Based on Val Helsing, What has to be done
  to a vampire in order to kill them?

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• Level 4 Analysis
• 1. What is Lucys true intentions when she
  calls Arthur?
• 2. How does Lucys appearance both attract
  and repulse the men at the cemetery?
• Level 5 Synthesis
• 1. What do you think would have happened if
  Dracula had seen Jonathan in London?
• 2. Do you think any of the other men would
  have been able to kill Lucy without Helsings
  leadership?
• Level 6 Evaluation
• 1. Seward and Arthur react angrily at Val
  Helsing when he tells them if what Lucy had
  become. What would be your reaction? Would you
  doubt him?
• 2. Val Helsing in Chapter 14, he tells
  Seward to consider the possibility of the
  supernatural. Do you consider yourself a more
  rational or superstitious person? Or would you be
  able to be both?

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Works Cited

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