Please Help Me Pass English!

[Lyssy]

I have to do a research paper on this book. It has to be, like, a critism. If anyone can help, PLEASE do! Thank you :D

[Christine]

There are a couple things you can do.

1. Stoker's Dracula vs. real Dracula (compare one to the other)

2. Is Lucy really an airhead?

3. The fact that so many characters hold knowledge back. I know people who dislike Van Helsing because he doesn't spill the beans; or how the men treated Lucy or Mina.

4. Compare Lucy and Mina

[Lyssy]

thank you thank you thank you! this will help. YOU ROCK!

[Myrthe]

If you really want to score; read that sequel, Dracula the undead, Stokers great-grand-cousin (or something) wrote. It is amazingly bad, but you'll appreciate the first book way more and in some funny way it'll help you understand what Stoker ment by his book and what certainly NOT!

[MpaulM]

I love this book because of the different diaries that the characters write. Kind of unusual for a novel.

[Linda]

If I were you I would compare the male characters, some are very different but there are a couple that so similar half the time I forget who's who!

[Bethel]

Chris wrote: "There are a couple things you can do.
1. Stoker's Dracula vs. real Dracula... 2. Is Lucy really an airhead?...."

Lol. I had to laugh at that one. ;) Quick answer: Yes she is. Thought-out answer: hmm well, she had her moments. :P

[[deleted user]]

Perhaps you could even mention that parallel universes, so to say. What I mean is, the civilization gap between the West and Romania, and particularly the Count's environment. In the west, it was the age of reason, and believing in such creatures as vampires would usually be attributed to madmen, but was still preserved in the East.



edit: I just realized that the original post dates from 2008. But, oh, never mind, someone else might find this useful.

[Bobby]

You could also mention how people in general people are willing to go to great lengths for love. Dracula became a vampire due to renouncing god for taking his love and and going after Mina who resembled his her. Love is something that could make someone very happy or completely insane. Hence we see this everyday with suicides,murder,and domestic abuse. Hope this helps you out.

[Gretchen]

Zorana wrote: "Perhaps you could even mention that parallel universes, so to say. What I mean is, the civilization gap between the West and Romania, and particularly the Count's environment. In the west, it was t..."

That's funny. I wonder what grade the user got on his paper?

[[deleted user]]

Gretchen wrote: "Zorana wrote: "Perhaps you could even mention that parallel universes, so to say. What I mean is, the civilization gap between the West and Romania, and particularly the Count's environment. In the..."

What's funny?

[Debi]

Who needs help on doing a report? So Lame.

[Sammy]

I would look into what the novel was saying about women at the time...Lucy really did come out as the heroine, and the female vampire (forgot her name) had a certain power over men.
We read this book in a class in my college, and we discussed it at length, but i can't remember all that we talked about! Hopefully this helps :)

[Mike]

Lolo wrote: "Some people over here still think vampires are real so..."

Vampires ARE real.

[Debi]

Mike wrote: "Lolo wrote: "Some people over here still think vampires are real so..."

Vampires ARE real."

They are not. Its all in your mind. ;0

[Bai]

Myrthe wrote: "If you really want to score; read that sequel, Dracula the undead, Stokers great-grand-cousin (or something) wrote. It is amazingly bad, but you'll appreciate the first book way more and in some fu..."

I couldn't even get through the Wikipedia synopsis. It was shockingly bad.

[Kathy]

Zorana wrote: "Perhaps you could even mention that parallel universes, so to say. What I mean is, the civilization gap between the West and Romania, and particularly the Count's environment. In the west, it was t..."

I thought it was interesting. Have you read the Historian?

[Valerie]

Look up the life of Vlad Tepes and it's not hard to figure out why he was used. Although considering Vlad, an even better story could have been written around him. He was quite a horrifying person. Vampirism was part of the local folklore and as always rumors abound when someone so important dies.

[Adrian]

Mike wrote: "Lolo wrote: "Some people over here still think vampires are real so..."

Vampires ARE real."

Too much Buffy, Anne Rice or Twilight - which is it?

[Mary]

I realize the original post is 4 years old but if anyone else here is doing Dracula for school I highly recommend either Leonard Wolf's Annotated Dracula or Leslie S. Klinger's New Annotated Dracula. Both available from Amazon.

[J.D.]

Captainbible wrote: "I love this book because of the different diaries that the characters write. Kind of unusual for a novel."

Actually not so unusual for the time period. It was a very popular writing style, and another novelist who was Stoker's contemporary wrote an equally famous book in the same style: Mary Shelly's Frankenstien.

[Jon]

Fair point about the similar epistolary style, but Frankenstein is actually eighty years older. "Contemporary" might be a stretch.

[AnYee]

It was exciting and vivid, but also clunky and dragged towards the end. Repetitive at bits too. I kept thinking "go kill Dracula already!"

[Patricia]

Look at the time period that Stoker was living in, what is the author trying to convey about the culture he was living in? What was occurring, a plague? a corrupt government.why did the belief of vampirism begin at all?

I had this course-- you will have to do some addtional historical research to validate your criticism