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Title: Dracula summary - Chapter 1 - AQA English Lang and Lit A Level
Description: This handy revision tool has been designed specifically for the AQA English Language and Literature A/AS Level course. It gives a plot summary of the chapter, as well as analysis of quotes, space for students to make links to the rest of the novel, context and other themes and features (including Gothic conventions).
Description: This handy revision tool has been designed specifically for the AQA English Language and Literature A/AS Level course. It gives a plot summary of the chapter, as well as analysis of quotes, space for students to make links to the rest of the novel, context and other themes and features (including Gothic conventions).
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Dracula: Chapter 1
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Plot summary Jonathan Harker has taken a train from London and describes his
brief stopover in Klausenburg
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When Harker arrives at his hotel, a
letter with instructions from Dracula awaits him
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Nevertheless, Harker
gets on the coach whilst a group of locals make the sign of the
cross at him to ward off the “evil eye”
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Another driver, who appears to be Dracula,
takes Jonathan round in circles for the rest of the journey,
stopping to arrange stones in a shape around a blue flame, which
they pass through
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Key quotes
“Vrolok and vlkosak - both of them which mean the same
thing…
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“The crazy coach rocked on its great leather springs, and swayed
like a boat tossed on a stormy sea” - describes the treacherous
journey to the Borgo Pass
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Alliterative “c” sound and sibilance used
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“Mountains seemed to come nearer to us on each side and to
frown down upon us” - another warning, the personification of the
mountains may be seen as intimidating but it also reflects how
many of the locals did not approve of Jonathan’s choice and tried
to stop him
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This sudden
change of character also mirrors the sudden change in climate,
suggesting that the travellers have almost entered a different
world
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grip of
steel” - t his is the first indicator we get that Dracula can
shapeshift, as he now appears unrecognisable as the carriage’s
driver (save for his most distinctive features)
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Dracula’s inhuman power is shown for the first time
here too as Jonathan is taken aback by his helping hand
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great frowning rocks
guarded us boldly on either side
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Once again, he is offered
clues and warnings to avoid the castle, but seems totally ignorant
(despite this chapter being his diary!)
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“Ring of wolves with white teeth and lolling red tongues, with
long, sinewy limbs and shaggy hair” - the use of red and white
together indicates that Dracula is able to become a wolf too
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The verb “lolling” is also
reminiscent of rabies, suggesting that the wolves are diseased
(e
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by Dracula’s coercion) and untameable
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They
symbolise eternity, suggesting that Jonathan will never leave the
castle once he en
Title: Dracula summary - Chapter 1 - AQA English Lang and Lit A Level
Description: This handy revision tool has been designed specifically for the AQA English Language and Literature A/AS Level course. It gives a plot summary of the chapter, as well as analysis of quotes, space for students to make links to the rest of the novel, context and other themes and features (including Gothic conventions).
Description: This handy revision tool has been designed specifically for the AQA English Language and Literature A/AS Level course. It gives a plot summary of the chapter, as well as analysis of quotes, space for students to make links to the rest of the novel, context and other themes and features (including Gothic conventions).