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Title: Dracula chapter 1 summary and analysis
Description: A* A level notes

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Chapter 1 – summary Jonathon Harker’s journal (shorthand)

Chapter one provides an introduction to Jonathon Harker and the journey that he going on
to count Dracula’s castle
...
We are also introduced to the
locals of the area, through Jonathon Harker’s eyes as well as the customs and the
suspentions of Romania
...
What ought
they to be in china?’

“here and there we passed the Clerks and Slovaks, all in picturesque attire, but I noticed
that the goitre was painfully prevalent”

“the women looked pretty, except when you get near them, but they were very dumsy
about the waist”

The first note from Count Dracula appears in this chapter, though it doesn’t answer any of
our questions because it purely transcational in tone and language, not emotional so it
doesn’t reveal anything about himself to reader
...


Setting: on the line between the “uncivallised” and the “dwifised” timinal

Gothic tropes/ themes:
- sleeplessness – linking to Frankenstein, the making of the creature at Lngolstalt, and giving
a sense to the reafer that something bad is going to happen soon
...
The journey to the castle
occurs on the eye of st
...

- Healing nature and the wildness of nature – contasting each other
...

“but just then the moon, salling through the wildness of nature – contrasting each other
...


“but just then the moon, salling through the black clouds appeared behind the jagged crest
of a beetfing, pine clad rick, and by its light I saw around us a ring of wolves…’ the moon
travelling at night – hints of supernatural forces and danger
...



“I soon lost sight and recollection of ghostly fears in the beauty of the scene as we drove
along…’ representing the healing powers of nature, night/ day
Title: Dracula chapter 1 summary and analysis
Description: A* A level notes