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1. L.E.G Project- Dracula By Christina, Robert, and Mike
2. Dracula by Bram Stoker published in 1897 constable & co. , London
3. About Bram stoker Abraham Stoker (November 8, 1847- April 20, 1912) better known for his gothic Novel Dracula. Abraham Stoker was born in Marino Crescent, which was then in Clontarf in Ireland on 8th November 1847. The writer of one of the best vampire horror novels, Dracula, this Irish author gained fame after his lifetime was over. He was the third of the seven children of Abraham Stoker (1799-1876) and the feminist Charlotte Mathilda Blake Thornely (1818-1901). Bram had a childhood during which he could not walk. He started to walk after he was seven years old and he started school where he recovered completely. His idea is this childhood gave him time to think. In 1878, Bram married Florence Balcombe, and they moved to London.
4. Stoker's Dracula came in 1897. Dracula, based on Vlad the Impaler aka Vlad III - a cruel impaler from Transylvania, is a vampire novel and a masterpiece of horror. Though it was not even the first ever vampire novel written, Dracula stands out to be the real fore-runner of the modern-day vampire by its class of story-telling and the quality of the story. Bram Stoker passed away on 20th April, 1912, at No 26 St George's Square. other works Dracula,The Jewel of Seven Stars,The Lady of the Shroud,The Lair of the White Worm,The Man,Dracula's Guest,The Judge's House
5. Setting Dracula mainly takes place in the eastern European country of Transylvania and a little bit in England. During the 19th century
6. Characters Count Dracula -  A centuries-old vampire and nobleman, Count Dracula lives in a castle in the Carpathian Mountains. Under his aristocratic charm, the count has a dark and evil soul. He can take the form of an animal, control the weather, and is stronger than twenty men. he cannot enter a victim’s home unless invited, cannot cross water unless carried, and is left powerless by daylight.
7. Van Helsing -  A Dutch professor and one of the most advanced scientists of his day. Called to cure Lucy Westenra, Van Helsing’s contributions are essential in the fight against Dracula. Van Helsing is not affected by the limitations of Western medicine: he knows that he faces a force that cannot be treated with traditional science and reason. Knowledgeable about vampire folklore, Van Helsing becomes Dracula’s antagonist and the leader of the group that hunts Dracula down and destroys him.
8. Jonathan Harker -  A lawyer, whose firm sends him to Transylvania to end a real estate transaction with Dracula. Young and inexperienced Harker finds himself a prisoner in the castle and barely escapes with his life. He shows a fierce curiosity to discover the true nature of his captor and a strong will to escape. Later, after becoming convinced that the count has moved to London, Harker becomes a brave and fearless fighter.
9. Mina Murray -  Jonathan Harker’s fiancée. Mina is a practical young woman who works as a teacher. victimized by Dracula, Mina is also the best friend of the count’s first victim, Lucy Westenra. Mina is in many ways the heroine of the novel, embodying purity, innocence, and Christian faith—virtues she maintains despite her suffering at the vampire’s hands. She is intelligent and resourceful, her research leads Van Helsing’s men to Castle Dracula.
10. Lucy Westenra -  Mina’s best friend and an attractive young woman. The first character in the novel to fall victim to Dracula. Lucy becomes a vampire, which compromises her much-praised chastity and virtue, and banishes her soul from the promise of eternal rest. Van Helsing’s crew hunts down the demon she has become and kills it, following the rituals of vampire slaying(cutting off the head, staked through the heart, and garlic stuffed in the mouth.), and thus restoring Lucy’s soul to her body and to heaven.
11. John Seward -  A young doctor, Van Helsing’s pupil. Seward is the administrator of an insane asylum not far from Dracula’s English home. Seward conducts ambitious interviews with one of his patients, Renfield, in order to understand better the nature of life-consuming psychosis. Although Lucy turns down Seward’s marriage proposal, his love for her remains, and he dedicates himself to her care when she suddenly takes ill. After her death, he remains dedicated to fighting the count.
12. Renfield  -  A patient at Seward’s mental asylum. A strong behemoth and a refined gentleman. Renfield has a habit of consuming living creatures—flies, spiders, birds, and so on—which he believes provide him with strength, vitality, and life force.
13. Arthur Holmwood -  Lucy’s fiancé. Arthur is the son of Lord Godalming and inherits that title upon his father’s death. In his fight against Dracula’s dark powers, Arthur is the first to offer Lucy a blood transfusion, and he agrees to kill her demonic form.
14. Quincey Morris -  An American from Texas, and another of Lucy’s suitors. A brave and good-hearted man, never begrudging Holmwood his success in winning Lucy’s hand. Quincey ultimately sacrifices his life in order to rid the world of Dracula’s influence.
15. Mrs. Westenra -  Lucy’s mother. A brittle woman of failing health, Mrs. Westenra inadvertently sabotages her daughter’s safety by interfering with Van Helsing’s folk remedies. She dies of shock when a wolf leaps through Lucy’s bedroom window.
16. Plot Jonathan Harker is a real estate agent who travels to Count Dracula’s Castle in Transylvania to complete a deal for an estate in England. Along the way, the people of Transylvania warn him of Dracula One lady in fear of his life gives him a silver crucifix to wear around his neck. Then when he reaches the castle a servant comes up in a black carriage. And Jonathan goes with him to Dracula's castle on the way there is fog and the sounds of wolves circling them. Then they see blue fire in the distance and they follow it. Then the wolves start to attack and the servant who is actually Dracula holds up a hand and stops the attack. They reach the castle.
17. Jon meets Dracula and stays with him in his castle. As he is staying there, however, he realizes that he is a prisoner. He is restricted to almost two rooms seeing as how all of the doors around him are locked. He also notices strange things about Dracula like how he has no reflection and how when he sees blood he almost attacks him. Also how he is never out during the day time. Then one night he looks outside his window to see Dracula ninja scaling down the wall. (Climbing in ur windows snachin’ ur people up.) During his time he also breaks into one of the other rooms in the castle and is almost attacked by three vampire sisters. Dracula saves him however then explains how they can have him once he is finished with him. Panicked the next day Jon scales the window outside and goes down to Dracula’s room. There he finds Dracula in a coffin ‘asleep’. He leaves and then comes back again and steals Dracula’s key. He escapes the castle.
18. Vampire Sisters
19. Lucy Westenra writes to her best friend Wilhelmina “Mina” Murray about her three suitors Dr. Seward, who owns a lunatic asylum. Quincey P. Morris, and American. Then the one whom she accepted a proposal to Arthur Holmwood. Then we see the journal of Dr. Seward on his patient Renfeild who collects flies then eats then or feeds them to his spiders. Apparently he wants a cat. (Probably to eat)
20. Lucy and mina meet in Whitby a little town by the sea they hear many strange stories about the town. Then they hear about a ship coming in with all the passengers missing except for the captain who is found dead tied to the steering wheel. Mina reads the journal and finds that there were fifty boxes of earth on board. Also that the crew members had thought that they had seen a strange man walking about the deck.
21. Lucy begins to start sleep walking and one night Mina wakes to find that Lucy is gone. She leaves the house to go look for her and finds her in a grave yard, a strange man standing over her. Mina rushes to Lucy who is in a faint and takes her back home. After a while this continues with Lucy waking up and going to the window every night. She starts to look pale so Dr. Seward is called to see her. She has lost a lot of blood ,but is not anemic. Dr. Seward dose not know what's wrong so he calls his old professor to come and look at her, Dr. Van Helsing. Dr. Van Helsing comes and after seeing two small puncture wounds in her neck he seems to know what is wrong with her, but will not share what he knows. He has her ware a wreath of garlic around her neck. However Lucy’s mother Mrs. Westenra who has been diagnosed with a severe heart condition that could lead her to die at any time takes off the wreath. Lucy worsens and has to be given blood transfusions.
22. Mina receives a letter from a nun saying that her fiancé Jonathan Harker was found and is in her care he has a mental illness and for her to come immediately. She leaves Lucy to find Jon. She goes to him and they get married. Meanwhile one night Lucy is in her room and a wolf jumps through her window Mrs. Westenra seeing the wolf suffers a heart attack and dies. the wolf leaves, the servants seeing all the confusion moves Mrs. Westenra’s body to another room. Lucy follows her and tells the maids to go into the dinning room and drink some wine because their so frantic. At this point Lucy is fearing for her life and writes in her diary that she doesn’t think she will leave to see the next day. Mean while Dr. Seward and Dr. Van Helsing fear that Lucy is in danger and go to her house to find it locked. So they break in to find the maids passed out on the floor after drinking the wine which seems to have been tampered with. Then they go into the room and find Mrs. Westenra dead and Lucy past saving. After putting Lucy in the Mausoleum, a few nights later they hear a new story about children going missing the children have puncture marks in their necks and say that they were playing with the bloofer lady.
23. At this point Dr. Van Helsing realizing what has happened to Lucy lets Dr. Seaward, Arthur, and Quincey in on the secret of world of vampires.
24. Renfeild starts acting up escaping from his room and quite possibly meeting someone, whom he refers to as master. He also has lost interest in his fly collection. Mina reads Jon’s Journal of the events that happened at Dracula's castle and realized what had taken place with Lucy. Dr. Van Helsing, Dr. Seaward, Quincy, and Arthur hunt down Lucy and simultaneously stake her through the heart, cut off her head with a silver knife, and stuff garlic in her mouth. Her soul is saved and she is at peace. Huzzah.
25. Dr. Van Helsing and Dr. Seaward, Arthur, Quincey, Jon, and Mina all team up to destroy Dracula. Dracula forces Mina to drink his blood and he falls in love with her. Mina begins to have traits of a vampire, and she has a mind connection with Dracula. Van Helsing puts a Eucurist on her forehead and it burns a mark into her head. The group now has a pressing reason to find Dracula, because if they do not kill him one day when Mina dies she will become a vampire. They hunt them down while making all the boxes of earth unlivable for Dracula. They find Dracula attempting to flee in a gypsy cart they drag his undead villainous A$$ out and stake him.
26. Literary elements The Consequences of Modernity As Harker becomes uncomfortable with his lodgings and his host at Castle Dracula, “unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere ‘modernity’ cannot kill.” Here, Harker voices one of the concerns of the Victorian era. The end of the nineteenth century brought drastic developments that forced English society to question the systems of belief that had governed it for centuries. Darwin’s theory of evolution, for instance, called the validity of long-held sacred religious doctrines into question. Likewise, the Industrial Revolution brought profound economic and social change to the previously agrarian England.
27. The Threat of Female Sexual Expression Dracula is, as much as anything else, a novel that indulges the Victorian male imagination, particularly regarding the topic of female sexuality. In Victorian England, women’s sexual behavior was dictated by society’s extremely rigid expectations. A Victorian woman effectively had only two options: she was either a virgin—a model of purity and innocence—or else she was a wife and mother. If she was neither of these, she was considered a whore, and thus of no consequence to society.
28. The Promise of Christian Salvation The folk legends Van Helsing draws upon suggest that the most effective weapons in combating supernatural evil are symbols of good. In the fight against Dracula, these symbols of good take the form of the icons of Christian faith, such as the crucifix. The novel is so invested in the strength and power of these Christian symbols that it reads, at times, like a propagandistic Christian promise of salvation.
29. Blood Blood functions in many ways in the novel. Its first mention, in Chapter III, comes when the count tells Harker that “blood is too precious a thing in these days of dishonorable peace; and the -glories of the great races are as a tale that is told.” The count proudly recounts his family history, relating blood to one’s ancestry—to the “great races” that have, in Dracula’s view, withered. The count foretells the coming of a war between lineages: between the East and the West, the ancient and the modern, and the evil and the good.
30. Science and Superstition We notice the stamp of modernity almost immediately when the focus of the novel shifts to England. Dr. Seward records his diary on a phonograph, Mina Murray practices typewriting on a newfangled machine, and so on. The threat Dracula poses to London hinges, in large part, on the advance of modernity. Advances in science have caused the English to dismiss the reality of the very superstitions, such as Dracula, that seek to undo their society. Van Helsing bridges this divide: equipped with the unique knowledge of both the East and the West, he represents the best hope of understanding the incomprehensible and ridding the world of evil.
31. Christian Iconography The icons of Christian, and particularly Catholic, worship appear throughout the novel with great frequency. In the early chapters, the peasants of Eastern Europe offer Jonathan Harker crucifixes to steel him against the malevolence that awaits him. Later, Van Helsing arrives armed with crosses and Communion wafers. The frequency with which Stoker returns to these images frames Van Helsing’s mission as an explicitly religious one. He is, as he says near the end of the novel, nothing less than a “minister of God’s own wish.”
32. Robert’s quote I write this and leave it to be seen, so that no one may by any chance get into trouble through me. – Lucy Westenra Taken from Lucy’s diary this quote shows that Lucy knew what was happening to her and did not become a vampire willingly, it also shows that she doesn't want anyone else to share the same fate.
33. Christina’s Quote “Denn die Todten reiten schnell” Translated- “For the dead travel fast” Spoken by one of the travelers on the wagon in the scene where Dracula rides up to take Jonathan to his castle. At this time Dracula is posing as a servant to Dracula.
34. Mikes quote “ how good they are to me”- Lucy Westenra spoken by Lucy this quote is an expression that even though they have to kill Lucy she feels loved and that they did everything in their power to help her.
35. Critical analysis Dracula is an interesting and exciting story, however, it is long and the way it is written is complex and difficult to read though. I found myself counting pages. Then as you where reading it took two pages to get one simple point across. Also the blood injection was fake as you need people of the same blood type to do blood transfusions. The characters however were well personified. -Christina
36. Dracula started out painfully slow I mean the first chapter was a description of a car ride slow….. Dracula also had a lot of build up though because of this slowness you can really feel harkers desperation as he slowly realizes what is happening to him. I could also appreciate the cunning of Dracula slowly picking people off one by one. – Robert
37. Dracula was an interesting read when you get down to it, but I think you can still have a suspenseful horror novel without the slowness in the beginning. This seems like a book that people would pick up read the first few chapters then put it back down because of a loss of interest but still a good book. – Mike
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39. Job division About the author,(revenge on Taylor), characters, - Robert kail Plot, setting, - Christina Heflin literary elements, reference slide – Mike paul