Dracula

Question 1

What do you need to include in the Dracula exam question

Answer 1

Context, writers craft, language/literature analysis

Question 2

What chapter does the mirror shaving incident occur

Answer 2

Chapter 2

Question 3

What chapter do the 3 vampire women appear

Answer 3

Chapter 3

Question 4

What chapter does Dracula attack Lucy

Answer 4

Chapter 8

Question 5

What chapter does Lucy get her first blood transfusion in

Answer 5

Chapter 10

Question 6

What chapter does Lucy die in

Answer 6

Chapter 13

Question 7

What chapter is vampire Lucy killed in

Answer 7

Chapter 16

Question 8

What chapter does Dracula force Mina to drink his blood

Answer 8

Chapter 21

Question 9

What chapter is Dracula killed in

Answer 9

Chapter 27

Question 10

How to start the essay

Answer 10

Identify narrative voice - what impact this has
Then look at lexical choice, sentences moods and types, imagery, dialogue
Bring in context

Question 11

Context

Answer 11

Fear of the ‘other’ - immigration caused anxiety amongst Victorian Britain - Quincey, Van Helsing, Dracula

Modernity - Kodak camera, phonograph, blood transfusions. Contrasts with the vampire, traditional religious myths are used to destroy him

Medical - mental health treatments changing, hypnosis - Freud

Women’s roles - Lucy oversexualised, 3 vampire women. Mina seen as a motherly, ‘mans brain’, Dracula attack scene seen as a rape. The new woman

Question 12

What chapters is religion relevant in

Answer 12

Chapter 1 - passengers on coach, hotel owners