İngiliz/Amerikan Edebiyatı 1

Yanıt Açıklaması: It is clear that Lucy is beginning to be transformed into a supernatural being and it is only Van Helsing who can make connections. Dr. Seward is again skeptical as a typical Victorian scientist and he continuously denies the supernatural and strange case of Lucy. He does not understand why Van Helsing places garlic flowers or garlic but he shows respect and does not question Van Helsing’s actions.

Yanıt Açıklaması: The characters in the London society live in the modern and rational London. Dr. Seward uses technological devices such as phonograph and Mina is good at typewriting. In London the characters use technology, write letters and diagnose patients.

Yanıt Açıklaması: It was Arthur, her fiancee, who first gave blood to Lucy. Correct answer is A.

Yanıt Açıklaması: The major conflict of the story is man versus self; that is Louise tries to reconcile with the feeling of freedom.

Yanıt Açıklaması: They transfused blood each time she felt weak and ill. The tiny red points on her troath could not cause huge drainage of blood so they covered her room with garlic. She felt better afterwards.

Yanıt Açıklaması: The Count offers immortality to his victims by turning them into creatures of his own. This blood exchange is the symbol of Dracula’s transformation ritual.

Yanıt Açıklaması: Although the reader knows that Jonathan is writing the diary and he is safe, it is not for sure whether he will survive in the castle or not because he writes directly as the events happen. He has no time to reflect on the events. It also displays the Victorian attitude towards the events. Jonathan records everything in his diary like a true Victorian gentleman who observes the slightest details around.

Yanıt Açıklaması: First of all, Robinson is incapable of any human intimacy. He does not feel any close ties to his family.  Being a materialistic man, Robinson tries to show his gratitude with money. These might show that Robinson has his personal flaws.

Yanıt Açıklaması: In the novel, Dr. Seward goes on to report his observations about Renfield. The patient has the habit of consuming living creatures around him. He uses sugar to catch flies, uses flies to catch spiders and uses spiders to catch sparrows. He feels joy in the consuming one creature after another. He believes that he gains strength when he eats these creatures himself. He can consume the previous lives in those animals. Dr. Seward names Renfield a “zoophagous”, a life eating maniac.

Yanıt Açıklaması: The reason why Dracula has aristocratic manners and knows a lot about history is that he considers himself coming from noble blood and connects his bloodline to Attila the Hun.

Yanıt Açıklaması: It is a crucifix that she gives Jonathan to protect him against the evil. Correct answer is C.

Yanıt Açıklaması: All of the themes are explored in the novel. There are also other themes not included here. Correct answer is D.

Yanıt Açıklaması: The consequences of depending too much on modernization lets the characters weak in the face of old and superstitious mystery. The characters have difficulty in believing how supernatural things can happen in the 19th century England

Yanıt Açıklaması: Renfield is introduced to us through Dr. Seward’s recordings, and the similarities and differences between Renfield and Count Dracula is visible. Like Dracula, he feeds upon other living things but unlike him Renfield is interested in animals not in humans. Both of them are consumers and threat the existence of others.

Yanıt Açıklaması: There are clouds in the sky, yet “there were patches of blue sky showing here and there through the clouds that had met and piled above the other in the west facing her window” (lines 24-26). The clouds present a metaphor for the problematic life Louise had and the repression she feels in her marriage. The “patches of blue sky”, on the other hand are considered to be the symbol of hope for a better future.

Yanıt Açıklaması: Robinson is naturally a slave trader, which was common in the 17th and 18h centuries in England. Also, Robinson is obviously a colonist as understood from the way he inhabits the island he has left at the end of the novel. Moreover, he is a racist who thinks low of especially the African and eastern nations.

Yanıt Açıklaması: It is Van Helsing who is the scientist with religious and supernatural beliefs. The other characters like Jonathan Harker and Dr. Seward rely on rational thought and science and reject the supernatural elements. Correct answer is A.

Yanıt Açıklaması: Lucy accepts Mr. Holmwood's proposal. Correct answer is C.

Yanıt Açıklaması: The uninhabited island off Trinidad which Robinson calls “The Island of Despair” is the next station of Robinson. The island serves many purposes such as the places for colonization, a comparison between the primitive and the civilized and a microcosmic representation of the world.

Yanıt Açıklaması: The character is not afraid of Londoners. On the contrary, he is feared by Londoners because he is regarded as an invader. Correct answer is D.