Writing Homework Help

Instructions: Write essays on the two topics specified below. Each essay should be at least 500 words in length. Submit the essays to the Dropbox by Friday, April 30 by 3:00 p.m. The format should be .doc, .docx, or pdf.

Essay #1: Write an essay on your own ideas about evil in comparison with those in vampire stories discussed in class:

1. How would you define evil?
2. How does evil differ (if at all) from that which is merely bad?
3. How do your ideas about evil compare with those seen in the novel Dracula?
4. How do your ideas about evil compare to with those seen in more contemporary vampire literature and film (discussed in the final lecture)?

Essay #2: Discuss how the vampire of Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula was “needed” by the culture of the society in which the novel was written—how the monster embodied the sociophobics of the time and place. Cite details of the novel’s plot in making your points. You might find it appropriate to comment on some of the following issues (already answered in your homework).

1. What are the main evils that the vampire perpetrates?
2. What larger fears of the original audience does the vampire’s evil-doing represent?
3. What is the larger significance of the novel’s allusions to barbarians (Huns and Vikings)?
4. Why is the vampire described with the particular “very marked physiognomy” in Chapter 2, and how does this relate to the ideas of Lombroso?
5. How do Dracula’s main victims Lucy and Mina represent Victorian ideals of the feminine?
6. How do the female vampires in Chapters 3–4 and 13–16 contradict Victorian ideals of the feminine?