Section A: Theme Statements/Truisms 1. The alienation of a person can lead to the loss of their sanity. 2.

The power of evil can easily overcome the unknowing good. 3. Knowledge can be the solution to life's most difficult problems. 4. Rejection hurts most from what is closest to us. 5. Unlikely salvation can be found within the Christian faith. Section B Chapters 1-5 a) The alienation of a person can lead to the loss of their santity. b) "When I found that I was a prisoner a sort of wild feeling came over me. I rushed up and down the stairs, trying every door and peering out of every window I could find; but after a little the conviction of my helplessness overpowered all other feelings. When I look back after the few hours I think I must have been mad for the time, for I behaved much as a rat does in a trap." c) Johnathan Harker was locked away in Dracula's castle, a place very much separate from the rest of society. There, when Johnathan discovered he was being kept "prisoner", he went mad for some period of time, having no one to confide his fears with. Chapters 6-10 a) The power of evil can easily overcome the unknowing good. b) " 'I have had a great shock, and when I try to think of what it is I feel my head spin round, and I do not know if it was all real of the dreaming of a madman. You know I have had brain fever, and that is to be mad. The secret is here, and I do not want to know it...Are you willing, Willhelmina, to share my ignorance?' " c) Johnathan would rather neither he or Mina know of what is written in his journal, even it means that all the evil he is confused about really is lurking about still. Dracula can, without much effort, become more powerful and steal the lives of many others if the good people, like Mina and

Johnathan, Chapters 11-15

still have no knowledge of his existence.

a) Knowledge can be the solution to life's most difficult problems. b) "I have read your husband's so wonderful diary. You may sleep without doubt. Strange and terrible as it is, it is true! I will pledge my life on it." c) Mina had told Van Helsing of her doubts about the truth of what Johnathan's journal contained, and here in Van Helsing's letter to her, Mina's doubts could be gone. Mina was fearing the unknown, because she hadn't a clue as to what she really had to worry about, but now that Mina knew exactly what she was dealing with, they could all now plan accordingly. Chapters 16-21 a) Unlikely salvation can be found within the Christian faith. b) "But by this time the Professor had gained his feet, and was holding towards him the envelope which contained the Sacred Wafer. The Count suddenly stopped, just as poor Lucy had done outside the tomb, and cowered back. Further and further back he cowered, as we, lifting our crucifixes, advanced." c) To save Mina from being hurt by Dracula any further, the men use the Sacred Wafer and crucifixes to repel Dracula. These religious articles are able to keep evil away because God always triumphs over the devil. Chapters 22-27 a) Rejection hurts most from what is closest to us. b) "As he had placed the Wafer on Mina's forehead, it had seared it...she wailed out: 'Unclean! Unclean! Even the Almightly shuns my polluted flesh! I must bear this mark of shame upon my forehead until Judgement Day.' " c) We know Mina is a strong Christian because she is very much offended that a Sacred Wafer, which was supposed to have healing powers, had literally burned

her. Mina felt rejected by God, and cried out in her pain, both emotional and physical. Section C: Literary Elements The Weird Sisters a) "All three had brilliant white teeth, that shone like pearls against the ruby of their voluptuous lips. There was something about them that made me uneasy, some longing and at the same time deadly fear." b) The three women are compared to the three witches from Macbeth, who were said to bring about a bad omen. a) "The phantom shapes, which were becomin gradually materialized from the moonbeams, were those of the three ghastly women to whom I was doomed." b) These women made Johnathan fear for his life, because he knew that they too were vampires and had a thirst for blood, just as Dracula did. Darkness a) "Suddenly, away on our left, I saw a faint flickering blue flame. The driver saw it at the same moment; he at once checked the horses and jumping to the ground, disappeared into the darkness. I did not know what to do, the less as the howling of the wolves grew closer..." b) The mystery and suspense throughout this entire novel is driven by the lack of light shed on many matters. The "darkness" is the characters' lack of knowledge of Dracula and how evil and powerful he can be. a) "This startled me, but as the effect was only momentary, I took it that my eyes deceived me straining through the darkness." b) The lack of knowledge towards the beginning of the book is what creates a misunderstanding as to what is and is not real, especially in Johnathan's case with his journal and not knowing whether or not all that he had written in it had actually occured or if he'd just gone mad. Blood

a) "Blood is too precious a thing in these days of dishonourable peace; and the glories of the great races are as a tale that is told." b) Dracula along with all other vamipires view blood as a precious thing because it is used by them to become stronger. a) "The vampire live on, and cannot die by mere passing of the time; he can flourish when he can fatten on the blood of the living...he cannot flourish without this diet." b) Much like the drinking of the wine during Communion is said to give Christians eternal life, for vampires the drinking of a living person's blood give them an extended life, though physical instead of spiritual. The Czarina Catherine a) "Until the Czarina Catherine comes into port there will be no interest for me in anything in the wide world." b) The Czarina Catherine is the ship Dracula takes in his journey back to his home. a) "When the telegram came announcing the arrival [of the ship] in Galatz, I do not think it was such a shock to any of us as might have expected. True, we did not know whence, or how, or when, the bolt would come; but I think we all expected that something strange would happen." b) The ship is named after the empress who was known for her promiscuity, symbolizing the fear that if Dracula is not caught, that Mina will become much like that of Lucy and the three women. Allusion a) "The blood is the life!" b) Once Renfield is pulled away by attendants from licking up Dr. Seward's blood from the floor, he begins to shout this sentence repeatedly. This is a biblical allusion, because in Deuteronomy 12: 23, it says this exact line. In the Christian faith, having the wine at communion is said to give a person eternal life, and likewise but in a more twisted manner, the human blood vampires drink extend their own

physical life. Flashback a) "I came up here an hour ago with Lucy...they feel in love with her on the spot. Even my old man succumbed and did not contradict her, but gave me double share instead. I got him on the subject of the legends, and he went off at once into a sort of sermon. I must try to remember it and put it down..." b) In Mina's journal, she recalls the conversatiion they had with the old man who told him of the ancient legends. The story the man tells is an example of flashback because it is not occuring at that time; it occured previously. Point of View a) "At least God's mercy is better than that of these monsters, and the precipice is steem and high. At its foot a man may sleep - as a man. Goodbye, all! Mina!" b) In Johnathan Harker's journal, we can understand from his writting just how much he fears for his life living in Dracula's castle. He senses death is near, and talks about how he's much rather die and have the mercy of God than be at the mercy of Dracula and the three women. Internal Conflict them from a) "Then [Mina] began to rub her lips as though to cleanse pollution."

b) Mina felt disgusting after the Count forced her to drink some of his blood when he accidently cut himself in the chest. She felt she was now unchaste and that there was no way to become pure again. External Conflict a) "In the dining-room, which lay at the back of the hall, we found eight boxes of earth. Eight boxes only out of the nine which were sought! Our work was not over, and would never be until we should have found the missing box." b) They needed destroy all of the boxes in order to have a chance of getting rid of Dracula, but with one no where to be found, they had quite an adventure ahead of them.

Setting a) "At last I pulled open a heavy door which stood ajar, and found myself in an old, ruined chapel, which had evidently been used as a graveyard. The roof was broken, and in two places were steps leading to vaults, but the ground had recently been dug over, and the earth placed in great wooden boxes, manifestly those which had been brought by the Slovaks. There was nobody about..." b) The setting created by Bram Stoker is a rather eerie one, but also a rather important one because it explains where the boxes, which end up playing a key element in the story, are put in the beginning.