Dracula context

Question 1

Theosophy

Answer 1

A popular belief in the Victorian Era which combined religion with science and the supernatural

Question 2

Translation of ‘Drac’?

Answer 2

‘Dragon’ or ‘Evil’

Question 3

Cornerstone of Victorian Society?

Answer 3

Motherhood

Question 4

Why were working class mothers seen as irresponsible and neglectful?

Answer 4

Because the ideal of motherhood demanded women to be constantly present for their children

Question 5

Demeter:

Answer 5

Greek goddess of grain, harvest and fertility

Question 6

Believed there was a direct link between sleepwalking and…

Answer 6

madness

Question 7

When was Oscar Wilde sent to prison for gross indecency?

Answer 7

1895

Question 8

Who believed criminals were a throwback to a more primitive evolutionary phase?

Answer 8

Lombroso, Italian criminologist

Question 9

What were prostitutes called?

Answer 9

‘Fallen women’

Question 10

Key red light district for prostitution?

Answer 10

Soho

Question 11

There were more … than schools

Answer 11

Brothels

Question 12

What act was passed to medically examine prostitutes due to fears of them bringing disease into the home?

Answer 12

Contagious disease act 1864

Question 13

Expectations of women?

Answer 13

Emotionally weaker, no vote, uncomfortable and restrictive clothing

Question 14

Who coined the term ‘New Woman’?

Answer 14

Sarah Grand 1894

Question 15

How was the ‘new woman’ viewed?

Answer 15

• Mannish intellectual standard
• Oversexualised vamp

Question 16

Key features of the new woman?

Answer 16

Financially independent, participated in politics, free and comfortable clothing, own decisions around marriage and children

Question 17

What was the immigration law used to limit Jewish immigration from Eastern Europe and prevent criminals from entering?

Answer 17

The Aliens Act 1905

Question 18

Which novels are precursors to Dracula?

Answer 18

‘Carmilla’, Le Fanu
‘Varney the Vampire’, James Malcom Rymer
‘The Vampyre’, John Polidori

Question 19

What was the original vampire?

Answer 19

More animal than man, scavenger, no intelligence, called Nosferatu

Question 20

Who criticised the New Woman as destroying tradition?

Answer 20

Nordau

Question 21

What was Invasion Theory?

Answer 21

Fear the Empire might collapse and fear British culture would be destroyed by influence from colonised places

Question 22

Centre of the British empire?

Answer 22

Queen Victoria and London

Question 23

When was the industrial revolution?

Answer 23

1760 - 1840

Question 24

Technology used in Dracula?

Answer 24

Paraphernalia Camera (Kodak), postboxes, phonograph, typewriter, shorthand / stenography, hypnosis, telephone

Question 25

What was the belief a person's appearance determined their characteristics - (popularised by Cesare Lombroso)?

Answer 25

Physiognomy

Question 26

Characteristics of 'born criminals' (Lombroso)

Answer 26

Sloping foreheads, Large eyebrows, protruding lips, wrinkles (both drac and van helping have large eyebrows)

Question 27

High forehead suggests ...

Answer 27

wisdom

Question 28

On the origin of the species?

Answer 28

1859 Charles Darwin

Question 29

What spurred fears of degeneration?

Answer 29

An increase in criminality

Question 30

The Angel in the House

Answer 30

Poem by Coventry Patmore around 1862

Question 31

Quote from The Angel in the House

Answer 31

Man must be pleased but to please him is a woman's pleasure

Question 32

Henry Irving

Answer 32

Leading actor in Shakespearean company. Employer of Stoker. Worked for him for 28 years.

Question 33

Where was Stoker born?

Answer 33

Clontarf near Dublin

Question 34

Who advised Stoker on medical aspects when writing Dracula?

Answer 34

Thornley

Question 35

Stoker's university?

Answer 35

Protestant Dublin University

Question 36

Irish Literary Society

Answer 36

Stoker helped to form in 1892

Question 37

Performance of Dracula at Lyceum Theatre

Answer 37

'Dracula, the Un-dead'

Question 38

Stoker's original title for 'Dracula'

Answer 38

'Un-dead'

Question 39

What were Stoker's descriptions of Transylvania based on?

Answer 39

Eastern European folklaw and geography he had researched

Question 40

Degeneration

Answer 40

Cultural concept in the final decades of the 19th century. Stemmed from Darwinian ideas of evolution, that there was progressive evolution to higher forms and so there could be reverse evolution.

Question 41

The suffrage

Answer 41

Began to champaign for the vote

Question 42

Aesthetes and Decadence

Answer 42

New definitions of masculinity: - Interested in Art and writing

Question 43

Dandy

Answer 43

Effeminate men

Question 44

1885 Criminal Law Amendment Act

Answer 44

Raised the age of heterosexual consent from 13 - 16

Question 45

Who suffered under the Criminal Law Amendment Act

Answer 45

Oscar Wilde

Question 46

The Society for Psychical Research

Answer 46

Researched into telepathy, hauntings, spiritualism and hypnosis

Question 47

Stoker's opinion on Mesmer

Answer 47

Didn't like how he was blurring the lines between Christianity and superstitions with hypnotism

Question 48

'New Imperialism'

Answer 48

- Occupation of Egypt - Competing with European Nations for Africa

Question 49

Jingoistic

Answer 49

Cultural manner of extreme nationalism in which imperial rule and foreign policy is implemented and celebrated

Question 50

Ireland and home rule

Answer 50

Stoker campaigned for home rule and independence from England.

Question 51

Mawkish

Answer 51

Sentimental in a nauseating way

Question 52

Marxist literary reading of Dracula

Answer 52

Allegory of situation of Irish under the rule of British.

Question 53

Bourgeois

Answer 53

relating to the values and ideologies of the middle class

Question 54

Taboo

Answer 54

Practices or behaviour which a particular society considers to be forbidden.

Question 55

Who was Van Helsing in an earlier draft?

Answer 55

As Clive Leatherdale discovered, he was a detective and not a scientist.