Dracula

Question 1

what is AO1

Answer 1

Articulate informed, personal and creative responses to literary texts, using associated concepts and terminology, and coherent, accurate written expression.

Question 2

AO2

Answer 2

Analyse ways in which meanings are shaped in literary texts.

Question 3

AO3

Answer 3

Demonstrate an understanding of the significance and influence of the contexts in which literary texts are written and received.

Question 4

AO4

Answer 4

Explore connections across literary texts.

Question 5

AO5

Answer 5

Explore literary texts informed by different interpretations.

Question 6

Smybolyic meanings of dracula

Answer 6

• ## Biting can be seen as sexual transmission, penetrating and exchanging of fluids

Question 7

context:

Answer 7

• Victorian society
• repression of all desires
• Freud interpretation of having to repress some desires to live in a civilized society
• strict concepts of women and men
• transmitting of sexual diseases, AIDS and the transferring of blood
• sexual curiosity
• Christian focus
• colonialism, the spread of an empire, rape of different cultures to “infect” them with their genes

Question 8

what is epistolary novel

Answer 8

• When a novel is written as a range of novels and journals from the same time

Question 9

Why does Stoker write it in the forms of letters and journels

Answer 9

• by doing this you can get the psychology of the characters
• a sense of confession. religious symbolism