{"id":1984,"date":"2021-04-02T18:52:11","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T18:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olhslrc\/?page_id=1984"},"modified":"2022-08-03T16:43:07","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T16:43:07","slug":"dracula","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/nl\/olhslrc\/pw\/language\/dracula\/","title":{"rendered":"Dracula by Bram Stoker, adapted by David Calcutt"},"content":{"rendered":"
Plot<\/em><\/span><\/h5>\n
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\"Image<\/a>Jonathan Harker has travelled to Romania to help an aristocrat with some legal work. Once there, he is imprisoned in Count Dracula’s castle and soon realises the Count is actually some sort of monster. Meanwhile Dracula arrives in England, and starts to prey on fresh victims, including Jonathan’s fianc\u00e9e, Mina, and her friend, Lucy.<\/p>\n

Authors – Bram Stoker and David Calcutt<\/em><\/span><\/h5>\n
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Bram Stoker – Biography.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Bram Stoker’s stage adaptation of Dracula<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

David Calcutt’s website<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Discover more about Bram Stoker<\/span>
\nand his work in the Library catalogue<\/span>
\n<\/em>in school<\/a>\u00a0 OR\u00a0 at home<\/a><\/h5>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
Themes – universal ideas<\/em><\/span><\/h5>\n
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Good and evil, love, modern vs traditional, religion, role of women, strangers, science vs superstition.<\/p>\n

More to explore – motifs, symbols, context, setting<\/em><\/span><\/h5>\n
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Asylums, bats, black dogs, blood\u00a0 and transfusion, Carpathians, castles, crucifixes, diaries, escape, garlic, hypnosis, letters, mental health, mirrors, mist, night, predators and prey, prisoners, secrets, sleepwalking, St George’s Day, Transylvania, vampires, vermin, Victorian period, Whitby, William Blake.<\/p>\n

Did you know?<\/em><\/span><\/h5>\n
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When Jonathan Harker travels to Transylvania, he is going to a real place. Transylvania is an area of Romania in eastern Europe.\u00a0 The town mentioned by Harker, Bistritz, is now called Bistri\u021ba<\/a>.<\/p>\n