FIRST make sure you have read Dracula by Bram Stoker and also the ARTICLE BY ROTH I hAVE uploaded…..
You Are supposed to do TWO things in this essay:
Engaging a piece of literary criticism in dialogue.
Using an insight from the piece that you choose to analyze a relationship between two or more characters in Dracula.
Your INTRO PARAGRAPH should relate the two explicitly.
Here’s an example or how it might do that:
In her classic essay, ‘Dracula: the unseen face in the mirror,” Carol A. Senf challenges the superficial impression that the novel is a ‘mythic re-enactment between Good and Evil” (Senf, 422). Instead, she maintains that unreliable narration leaves us with a Dracula who can seem “noble and vulnerable as well as demonic and threatening” (424). This duality, as it interacts with that of Mina Harker, lies at the heart of my own interpretation of Stoker’s eponymous vampire—a figure whose inherent ambiguity reveals the extraordinary sway that surface impressions hold in the novel.
Your FIRST BODY PARAGRAPH should summarize, analyze, and assess the article you are working with. You will not be able to account for every element of the essay, but tilt your summary so that you are zeroing in on what you want to write about. Decide whether or not you agree with the author and indicate as much! This paragraph is a springboard for your own analysis, which will take up the rest of the paper. That will be a conventional analysis of a significant relationship in Stoker’s novel.
In the REST OF THE ESSAY: simply analyze the relationship that most interests you. Consider the following: (a) Who are the individuals involved in that relationship? (Here, you might find it useful to consult the “lab reports” we generated; those can all be found under “Collaborations” on our Canvas site.) (b) Why and how are these individuals interested in or involved with each other? Do they mirror each other? Does one reveal truths about the other? Does one influence or learn from the other? (c) What is the significance of this relationship? What, in other words, does it reveal?
Here is the relationship you must explore..
Lucy and Mina: What draws these women together? Are there unexpressed erotic elements in their relationship? Or do they represent two very different stereotypes of Victorian femininity that simply do not match up? What might Stoker be saying about female propriety, desire, sexuality, or even relationship to language through these characters? Why is Dracula drawn to them?
Please include a WORKS CITED page.
Cite the article you choose as follows:
AUTHOR (last name, first name). ARTICLE TITLE. Rpt. in Bram Stoker, Dracula, ed. Nina Auerbach and David J. Skal. New York: W.W. Norton, 1997, pp. X-
BECAUSE THIS IS A REVISION: I WILL UPLOAD THE ORGINAL PAPER. PLEASE REVISE IT TO THE DIRECTIONS WRITTEN ABOVE….
THIS IS WHAT YOU MUST FIX: THIS IS THE FEEDBACK I HAVE GOTTEN BACK:
But you don’t develop the different aspects of that transition in a systematic way and instead there are lots of digressions into gothic elements and Stoker’s( NOT Stocker’s!) plot that keep this from being a true critical paper. For it to become one, you’d need to got through each of 3-4 ways Lucy and Mina mirror yet differ from each other, leaving all else aside. This possibility is latent in your paper but there is so much covering it up and distracting you into tangents that it never is realized. How this relates to Roth is also not clear, though your approach holds real promise there too.
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