Dracula Webquest


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	Read through an excellent Study Guide, prepared by a SUNY Potsdam intern. Click the PDF icon.

Use the following links to familiarize yourself with the content of Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula, performed at F.A. on Monday, December 13, 2010, by Pendragon Theatre.

1. Start by reading a brief summary of Bram Stoker’s novel.

2. Next read about the characters in Dracula.

3. Here is information about the author and about the social situation in England at the time he wrote the novel.

4. Look over maps of Eastern Europe, indicating Transylvania’s location.

5. To learn about the real-life inspiration for Count Dracula’s character, read about Prince Vlad III, also known as Vlad the Impaler. Here you’ll find a well-organized (but gruesome) background on Vlad the Impaler including several anecdotes that seem to justify his notoriety.

6. Read about the many similarities between Stoker’s Count Dracula and the all-too-real Prince Vlad III.

7. Bram Stoker was inspired to write his novel after he had read an essay about superstitions. Read this excerpt from Emily Gerard’s “Transylvanian Superstitions,” watching for details that Stoker may have “borrowed” for his story.

8. Because of the variety of ways in which vampires have been presented in folklore and in modern literature and media, there exist dozens of categories of the mythical beasts: the typical blood-hungry type, the sort who feed on mental or emotional energy (psi and empathic vampires), those who live, those who are immortal, and even those who don’t mind sunlight. Here is a list of the six varieties of vampire, as apparent in folklore and literature.

9. In this brief essay, a critic discusses the parallel between the changing social/political situation in Victorian England and the forces in conflict in Bram Stoker’s fictional Dracula.

10. To read the full text of Stoker’s novel in a Word document, click the pdf icon below.


	The full text version of Dracula on your computer screen.


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