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(C1)
Harker’s thoughts on Buda-Pesth?

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He liked the food, ‘wonderful place’, however he thought the people were less civilised (Victorian fear of the other)

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(C1)
What mountain range is Transylvania in?

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Carpathian Mountains

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(C1)
What does Harker want to ask Dracula?

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About the local superstitions (imaginative whirlpool)

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(C1)
Who are ‘the strangest figures’

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The Slovaks

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(C1)
What hotel does harker stop at?

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Golden krone hotel

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(C1)
Who does harker get a welcome letter from?

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Dracula

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(C1)
How do locals react to finding out about harkers destination?

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They reacted with horror

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(C1)
Significance of St George’s day, when harker meets Dracula?

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All evil in the world ‘have full sway’ at midnight

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(C1)
Dramatic irony and foreshadowing?

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-lots of warnings
-harkers ignorant of them

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(C1)
How is the landscape presented?

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-isolated and eerie
-sublime
-beautiful and grand, yet a source of fear

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(C2) what recent professional achievement does harker let us know about at the start of the chapter?

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Passed solicitor exams

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(C2) what is odd about how Dracula invites harker into his castle?

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‘Own free will’

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(C2) what does Dracula look like undisguised?

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Old man, red eyes, white moustache

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(C2) What is the name of harkers boss?

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Hawkins

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(C2) what house is Dracula buying and what interesting facilities live nearby?

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Essex, mental asylum

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(C2) What does harkers boss say about harker in the letter?

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‘A great and capable lawyer’

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(C2) What does Dracula say about his history and homeland?

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A place of war and tumult - a nobleman and warlord

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(C2) Why does Harker refer to his ‘strange night existence?

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Long night conversations with Dracula are homoerotic ‘strange’

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(C2) What uncanny incident occurs when harker is shaving?

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Cut and reflection

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(C2) What revelation does harker have at the end of this chapter?

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He is trapped

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(C3) what does harker notice missing from Dracula castle - something a nobleman should have?

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Servants

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(C3) what is harker grateful to have around his neck?

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A crucifix

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(C3) what do harker and Dracula discuss all night long (how does it present Dracula? What are szekelys?)

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England, English law, property law and history etc. Dracula is modern and well informed and highly intelligent.
Szekelys are an ethnically Hungarian race in Romania of which Dracula is a member (fierce and warlike)

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(C3) Harker says Dracula would’ve made a wonderful …..

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Solicitor

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(C3) what warning does harkers receive?
Don’t wander around the castle at night
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(C3)what does harker see from the window that freaks him out a tad?
Dracula crawling like a lizard down the wall
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(C3) who visits harker on his transgressive trip around the castle rooms?
The ‘sisters’ I.e Draculas ‘brides’
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(C3) how does he feel bout these visitors?
He is both repelled by and sexually attracted to them
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(C3) How does Dracula react to these visitors when he sees them about to feast on Harker?
With terrifying fury
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(C3) What’s in Dracula’s bag at the end of the chapter?
A baby/small child
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(C4) How does the opening of the chapter imply sexual threat?
Carried passively to bed and undressed and can’t remember
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(C4) Why does Harker “know now the span of my life”?
the date he is told to put on the last letter
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(C4) What does Dracula burn?
the letter to Mina in shorthand
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(C4) What happens to the epistolary structure in this chapter?
Short and rushed entries
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(C4) What does Harker notice about Dracula when he sees him crawling out his window again and why is this significant?
Wearing harkers clothes- stealing his identity/merging
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(C4) Who comes knocking at the castle gates and what happens to her?
A woman looking for her child- killed by the wolves
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(C4) What lifts Harker from his despair and provokes him into action
Dawn sunshine like ‘the dove from the ark’
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(C4) The second time he visits Dracula in his coffin how does the vampire look different?
Gorged ‘he lay like a filthy leech, exhausted with his repletion
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(C4) Why does Harker fail to properly bash Dracula with the shovel?
‘But as I did so the head turned and the eyes fell full upon me, with all their blaze of basilisk horror’
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(C4) What precipitous action does Harker decide on at the end of the chapter?
Try to escape - climb down wall/cliffs
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(C5) what is she learning?
Shorthand
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(C5) what is her job?
School teacher
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(C5) would the audience approve of this job?
Child centred so considered okay for a lady
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(C5) tone of Lucy’s letters and how she compares with mina?
Lucy is effusive and mina more reserved
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(C5) who is Arthur holmwood?
He is lord godalming (one of Lucy’s suitors)
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(C5) who is dr john Seward?
Another of Lucy’s suitors - runs the lunatic asylum
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(C5) who is Renfield?
A zoophagous inmate at the asylum
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(C5) who is Quincey morris?
Another suitor - American (Texan) and friend with the other two men
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(C5) how is the epistolary form spiced up in this chapter?
Transcribed phonograph entry and telegram message included
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(C5) What does multiple narrators allow?
-adds weight to fantastical elements -more digestible and fantastical for a reader
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Where is mina writing from at the opening of the chapter?
Budapest
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Who do we find out is suffering from ‘brain fever’
Harker
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How has Lucy changed, according to her letter reply?
Well and ‘fat’ and not sleepwalking
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In dr Seward’s entry, what does he report as exerting a calming influence over renfield?
A bat
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What does Lucy start keeping on 24th august?
A diary
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Who writes to dr Seward, requesting he help Lucy?
Arthur holmwood
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Who does dr Seward write to for help with Lucy, and how does he know him?
Van helsing- his former mentor
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It’s implied that van Helsing knows what
He fears dr Seward is too rational and wont believe it
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He’s even more crazy, esp around noon but calmer at night
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