Dracula critics

Question 1

• Burton Halton
• the other

“Dracula is physically …

Answer 1

Dracula is physically “other”: the dark, unconscious, the sexuality that Victorian England denied.

Question 2

• John Allen Stevenson
• sexuality
  “the actions of a vampire can be

Answer 2

the actions of a vampire can be simplified down to a lack of control and perversion of human desires and instinct

Question 3

• George Wesson
• setting
• the other

“count dracula represents those forces in eastern

Answer 3

Count Dracula represents those forces in Eastern Europe which seek to overthrow, through violence and subversion, the more progressive democratic civilisation of the West

Question 4

• Kathryn Boyd
• sex and society

“minas sexual beahvoiur fits

Answer 4

Mina’s sexual behaviour fits in with traditional societal norms.

Question 5

• Lucas Kunnecke
• sex and gender

“masculinity functioned as a

Answer 5

masculinity functioned as a driving social force to subdue threatening female sexuality.

Question 6

• Sibylle Baumbach
• outsider and society

“the outside has become an

Answer 6

The outsider has become an insider, able to pose as a member of British society.

Question 7

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Imprisonment - Norma Rowen

“to live immortality ..

Answer 7

To live in immortality in circumstances such as Dracula’s seems like imprisonment .
Imprisonment - Norma Rowen

Question 8

• punter and Byron
• taboo

“Dracula is above all concerned ..

Answer 8

“Dracula is above all concerned with the breaking of Taboos”

Question 9

• botting
• boundaries

“Dracula crossing of

Answer 9

“Dracula’s crossing of boundaries is relentless”

Question 10

• buzwell
• modern women
• Lucy
  “Lucy western who is by

Answer 10

“Lucy Westenra, who is, by contrast, dangerously modern in her ways

Question 11

• bram stoker
• drawls invasion of empire

“the count is simultnasouly

Answer 11

The count is simultaneously a historical and a modern threat

Question 12

Hindel
- sex

“sex was the monster

Answer 12

sex was the monster that troubled Stoker most