The Setting Of Dracula By William Shakespeare - 1155 Words

Activity 1 The setting of Dracula took place in Transylvania at Castle Dracula and travels over to Whitby. The author decided to pick this place because this was the birthplace of the Dracula stories. By using this it connected more with the original stories of Dracula instead of taking it somewhere else and make it more of a duplicate. While reading this book it made me feel like I was up and close to Dracula. If the setting would have taken place in a different place it would just have been another vampire book and not about Dracula himself. Activity 2 Two characters that should be brought to the light are Count Dracula and Van Helsing. Count Dracula, or Dracula for short, is an old vampire as well as a Transylvania citizen. Since he is a vampire he is possessed with a dark entity. This curse comes with both powers and burdens. As a vampire he is able to shape-shift to any animal he wants, control the weather, and has the strength of about 20 men. Some of the burdens that comes with this is that he can’t enter a victim’s house without being invited in, can’t cross water without being held, and becomes weak when in presence of sunlight. â€Å"I bent over him, and tried to find any sign of life, but in vain† (pg. 52 – 53). â€Å"Between me and the moonlight flitted a great bat, coming and going great, whirling circles† (pg. 103). â€Å"The blood is the life† (pg. 156). Van Helsing is a Dutch professor who is described as a philosopher, a metaphysician, and one of the most advancedShow MoreRelatedSetting Archetypes1258 Words   |  6 Pagesï » ¿ ARCHETYPAL SETTINGS 1. The River – Almost any source of water will focus on the importance of life. Without water there is no life. A journey on or down a river is often a metaphor for life’s journey or a character’s journey, especially if the river is shown as a road or means of travel – pulling or pushing a character through changes. (Twain’s Huck Finn) Rivers can also be a metaphor for the passage of time (Big Fish) or the stages of a human life (creek, roaring river, sea; or the crossingRead MoreLogical Reasoning189930 Words   |  760 Pagesspeakers. In 1840, in his introduction to The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, William Whewell wrote: We very much need a name to describe a cultivator of science in general. I propose to call him a scientist. Whewells stipulative definition caught on. It has now become a correct lexical definition. Persuasive definitions are another category of definitions. Take the definition of atheist proposed by William, an acquaintance of mine: By atheist I mean a non-Christian pervert who will rot