Unit 6 Activities
• Read Dracula (Links to an external site.), Chapters 19-27
• Review Study Guide Questions
• Post responses to Discussion Activities 7 & 8 by Friday and respond to at least two peer posting per discussion by Sunday
• Take Unit 6 Quiz by Sunday

Activities Points Possible Unit Objectives Met
Discussion Activity 7 100 points 1, 2, 3
Discussion Activity 8 100 points 1, 3, 4
Unit 6 Quiz 100 points 1, 2, 3

Reading and Study Guide Questions for Unit 6
Dracula by Bram Stoker, Chapters 19-27

• Etext available here (Links to an external site.)
Bram, Stoker. Dracula. 1897. Project Gutenberg, 2013…

Dracula Study Guide Questions
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Dracula Study Guide Questions, Chapters 19-27

1. What similar event is recorded in Lucy, Mina, and Jonathan’s diaries?
2. How does Jonathan convince the uncommunicative “house agent” to reveal information about the sell of one of Dracula’s property’s in London? How do Arthur and Quincy gain entrance into Dracula’s residence in Piccadilly? How might these scenes reflect on class issues in the late nineteenth century?
3. How and why does Renfield die? Who is responsible for his death?
4. What does Van Helsing use to force Dracula to leave the Harkers’ bedchamber? What happens to Jonathan’s physical appearance after Dracula visits his bedroom?
5. While in the asylum, what physical evidence does Dracula destroy?
6. What leaves a burn mark on Mina’s forehead and how does Van Helsing sterilize the earth boxes at Carfax? How many earth boxes remain by Chapter 23?
7. What does Van Helsing mean when he states that Dracula may be a father of a new order?
8. Why does Mina show mercy to Dracula? What does Mina ask of the men should she become a vampire?
9. What does Mina’s hypnotism reveal? Why does Mina want to accompany the men to Varna? How does Mina help the men find and fight Dracula?
10. How does Dracula discover that Van Helsing and the others have left Britain?
11. Where does the Czarina Catherine finally dock? Why does it change its course according to Van Helsing?
12. Who accompanies Van Helsing to Dracula’s castle?
13. Even though Mina has helped The Crew of Light immensely in their search to defeat Dracula, how is she infantilized in order to protect and preserve her female virtue? Why can she not avenge the wrong done to her? How does Stoker create the model of Victorian female virtue in Mina?
14. In the final chapters, how is Dracula on the defensive? Has he lost power since he first arrived in Whitby?
15. How do the weird sisters, or Dracula’s brides, threaten the very ideal of Victorian female virtue and male reason? Why does Van Helsing have a difficult time destroying the sisters?
16. How is Dracula destroyed? Before his body crumbles into dust, what look does Mina notice on his face? Does this moment redeem Dracula? Is Mina herself saved when her scar fades and she is no longer marked?

• These study guide questions are designed to guide your reading this week. You do not need to submit them for evaluation. Use these questions in any way you find helpful. They can be utilized as pre-reading questions to guide you as you read or as post-reading questions to review what you have already read.

Lecture/Media for Unit 6
Click on the link below to read an article on the evolution of the vampire in popular culture.
Evolution of the Vampire (Links to an external site.)
Nuzum, Eric. “Defining Dracula: A Century of Vampire Evolution.” NPR Books, 2008.
Click on the video below to learn more about the evolution of the vampire, particularly in film.

Discussion Activity 8: Ending of Dracula
PROMPT
What was your impression of the novel’s ending? Was it predictable? Did you think Dracula would die? Did you expect Mina to stake Dracula?

Pretend that you are asked to rewrite the ending of Stoker’s novel. How would your ending differ from Stoker’s? As we learned this week, both in this week’s reading and video presentation, the myth of the vampire has evolved. Also, as outlined in the first week of this course, literature is a product of the age in which it is produced; it reflects the ideas and anxieties of the time in which it is written. Ultimately, how is your rewrite influenced by the world around you? What current cultural anxieties and modern day issues would it address?

GRADING
In order to be eligible to receive full credit for this discussion post, you must fully answer the above prompt.

Please consult the discussion grading rubric (located in the syllabus) for additional grading criteria for discussion forums.

Possible Points Criteria
Student Response to Discussion Prompt 0-50 pts. Response to the prompt demonstrates an understanding of the text, answers all
questions posed, and displays critical thinking and analysis about the issues presented.
The response is also well organized, mostly free from grammar errors, and cites
evidence from the text to support claims.
When using direct quotes and summarizing the text, please make sure to use MLA citation techniques.
200 word minimum.