Dracula Chapter 2-7

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Describe Jonathan Harker's thoughts after he discovers the Count laying the table in the dining room.

Jonathan is sure there is no one else in the castle if the Count is performing menial tasks. He believes the Count was the driver who brought him to the castle. Being alone in the castle with the Count frightens him.

Count Dracula claims to be the ancestor of what famous warrior?

Attila the hun

What does the Count warn Jonathan not to do when he is alone at night?

The Count warns Jonathan against falling asleep in any part of the castle other than the areas that have been designated to him.

Describe the way Jonathan Harker sees the Count leave the Castle

Jonathan sees the Count crawl out a window, face down with his cloak spreading out around him like great wings.

Jonathan watches as the Count moves down the wall like a lizard.

Jonathan Harker falls asleep in the parlor. What does he see upon waking?

Jonathan sees three beautiful, voluptuous women with long sharp teeth, who try to seduce him

Describe the Count's reaction to finding the women with Jonathan Harker.

The Count is angry with the women, and he flings them violently aside.

He tells them that Jonathan belongs to him first.

What does Jonathan Harker believe he hears coming from the bag the Count had thrown to the floor?

Jonathan hears a gasp and a low wail, as of a half-smothered child.

What happens to the woman and the bag?

The women and the bag disappear; they seemed to fade into the rays of moonlight and pass out through the window.

The Count instructs Jonathan to write three letters home. What is the content of these letters?

He is instructed to write one saying that his work in Transylvania is nearly done and that he will be leaving for home in a few days, a second saying that he would be leaving the castle the next morning from the time of the letter, and a third saying that he had left the castle and has arrived at Bistritz.

Jonathan attempts to send letters home without the Count reading them. What happens to the letters?

Count Dracula intercepts the letters. After opening them, he decides to post the letter to Jonathan Harker's employer, but since the other (to Mina) was written in shorthand and the Count could not read it, the Count burned it

What does Jonathan discover upon waking on 31 May?

his personal papers and traveling clothes have disappeared from the closet

What do the Slovaks deliver to the castle?

the deliver large empty wooden boxes with rope handles and stack them outside the castle

When Count Dracula leaves the castle on 24 June, what does Jonathan Harker notice?

the count is wearing Jonathan Harker's traveling clothes and the bag the women took away earlier

Jonathan goes to the window when he hears the agonizing cry of a woman. What does she yell upon seeing Jonathan's face in the window?

"monster! give me back my child!"

Jonathan decides to climb the wall of the castle into the Count's room. Describe what Jonathan Harker discovers in the Count's room

The room is barely furnished with odd things, which seem to have never been used. In the corner is an unlocked heavy door that leads to an old, ruined chapel, which had evidently been a graveyard. The wooden boxes that had been delivered were filled with earth, and the Count was in a box on top of one of the piles of freshly dug earth. The Count's eyes were open, but they did not seem to register Jonathan's presence.

Jonathan tells the Count that he wants to leave the night of 29 June, but he suddenly changes his mind. Why?

The Count tells Jonathan that he can leave if he wishes, and he opens the door. Just outside the door is a pack of snarling wolves ready to attack, so Jonathan begs the Count to close the door.

What does Jonathan Harker find when he goes back to the Count's room to look for a key to the door?

He finds the Count inside a covered wooden box. When he removes the lid, Jonathan notices that the Count looks much younger and his body seems to be bloated with fresh blood

What is the relationship between Mina Murray and Jonathan Harker?

they are engaged to be married

What kind of institution does Dr. John Seward run?

an insane asylum

From whom did Lucy receive marriage proposals?

She received three marriage proposals in one day from Dr. John Seward, Mr. Quincey Morris, and Mr. Arthur Holmwood

Identify Quincey Morris

He is an American friend of Arthur Holmwood. They go hunting together

Which of the marriage proposals does Lucy accept?

Arthur Holmwood's

Describe the patient who seems to be of most interest to Dr. Seward

R. M. Renfield is about 59 years old, is very strong and extremely excitable. Dr. Seward thinks that he could be very dangerous.

What does the old man that Mina and Lucy meet claim about the tombstones in the cemetery?

He claims that the tombstones lie about those who are buried (or supposedly are buried) in the graves

Describe Renfield's systematic way of collecting lives

He believes that one spider that eats many flies contains many lives. The bird that eats spiders that have eaten flies contains more lives. He who eats the bird ingests all of those lives.

What unusual thing does Renfield eat? Why?

He eats files, spiders, and birds to acquire their life blood so he'll live longer

What odd, recent behavior of Lucy is disturbing to Mina?

She has begun sleepwalking

The Russian ship Demeter is washed ashore by a terrible and sudden storm. Briefly summarize the newspaper clipping.

The crew is nowhere to be seen and the captain is tied to the wheel holding a crucifix with a frozen dead look.

Allusion - Reference to something or someone with which the author would expect the reader to be familiar. In Greek Mythology, who is Demeter?

Demeter is the goddess of the harvest.

The reader is also introduced to more of of Dracula's powers. Discuss what we learn that he is capable of doing.

1.He can change his shape and size.

2.Paralyzing his victims in fear.

3.Hypnotism.

Lucy's strange behavior indicates that she may already may be a victim of Dracula. What clues foreshadow this?

1. She has two puncture marks on her throat.

2.She doesn't like garlic when she is asleep.

3.She doesn't get much sleep/ tries to escape.

4.She is getting paler and her teeth grow sharper.

What do we learn has happened to Mr. Swales?

He was found dead that morning (Aug 10th), his neck was broken. Also looked horrified.

menial

a job fit for a servant

consigning

give over to the care of another; entrust

acumen

quickness, accuracy, and keenness of judgment or insight

voluptuous

contributing to the satisfaction of sensual desires

languorous

lack of physical or mental energy; listlessness

imputable

arising from or attributable to

obeisance

a gesture, such as a curtsy, that expresses deference or respect

cudgeling

beating someone as if with a heavy stick

embrasure

an opening in a thick wall for a window, often containing a bench

instigation

deliberate and intentional triggering of trouble or discord

How does Mina demonstrate a progressive victorian era woman

she wants to keep up with jonathans studies and practice shorthand

how does lucy demonstrate a damsel in distress?

she focuses on love

who is dr seward seeing what are his oddities?

He is seeing renfield, he is odd because he eats spiders, flies, and birds

what does mina cutting from the dailygraph show about her character?

It shows that she is curious and characterizes her as inquisitive.

describe what happened with the immense dog that jumped off the schooner

The dog ran away after jumping and it seems like it attacked another dog too.

what foreshadows jonathan being hypnotized

the particles of dust

what happened to the woman in draculas yard?

she was eaten by the wolves

what does jonathan find in the boxes?

dracula sleeping.

"...if he does himself all these ______ offices, surely it is proof that there is no one else to do them."

menial

“Now, suppose I... wish to ship goods...to Newcastle, or Durham, or Harwich, or Dover, might it not be that it could with more ease be done by ___________ to one in these ports?"

consigning

"For a man who was never in the country, and who did not evidently do much in the way of business, his knowledge and ________ were wonderful."

acumen

"The castle was built on the corner of a great rock, so that on three sides it was quite _____."

impregnable

"All three had brilliant white teeth, that shone like pearls against the ruby of their _______ lips."

voluptuous

"I closed my eyes in a _________ ecstasy and waited - waited with a beating heart."

languorous

"They took their hats off and made ________ and many signs, which, however, I could not understand any more than I could their spoken language..."

obeisance

"This morning, as I was sitting on the edge of my bed ______ my brains, I heard without a crack of whips and pounding and scraping of horses' feet up the rocky path beyond the courtyard."

cudgeling

I leaned back in the _________ in a more comfortable position so that i could enjoy myself more fully in the aerial gamboling

embrasure

Suddenly it struck me that this might be the moment and the means of my doom: I was to be given to the wolves and at my own _____

instigation

impregnable

impossible to capture or enter by force