jueves, 10 de julio de 2008

Dracula Writting

Is this a real, true story? Or part of it? Which elements are real and which fiction?

Dracula is not a real story, but part of it is. The author, Bram Stoker, took the character of Count Dracula from Vlad III who has been a Prince of Valaquia (today the south of Rumania). A lot of stories had been told about Vlad and the people he killed. But something strange happened, when Vlad III died, his tomb was opened and his body wasn’t found there. People believed that it was truth that he was a Vampire and until now his body hasn’t appeared.Other fictitious thing based in the truth of the existence of Vampires. The information that Dr. Van Helsing told in the story was truth, all that information had been recollected from people who had lived in Transylvania and other nearly villages that knew this story. So we learn that the story about vampires wasn’t invented by the writer, this was believed at same time of the story by people in Transylvania. The things that the characters had done to destroy the vampires and to prevent them, like Garlic, Holy Bread also hammering a Stake in Dracula’s chest is now a day believed too.The only fictions tips of the story were the characters except Dracula and also the story is fiction, which was invented and written by Bram Stoker in 1897.

Describe Mina. Why was she in danger in the story? What happened at the end?

Mina was Jonathan’s wife, a nice and brave girl, in the middle of the story Dracula made her drank his blood, so she enter in the transformation of a vampire that put the life of her husband and the other main characters in danger but she was very brave, because she said if she became dangerous for them or if she transform into a vampire they must kill her, and that’s why she was very brave, because I think that none of us would like die.
But when she drank Dracula’s blood she could knew what Dracula was thinking in that moment. Another bad thing was if she died before Dracula was killed, she would be a vampire from the rest of her life. Luckily Dracula is killed in the end of the story when he is hammered a stake in his chest and Mina was alive, so she didn’t transform into a vampire and she stay with Adam without being a vampire.

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