LO: TO PRACTICE INCLUDING WAYS OF READING IN WRITING. WRITING IN RELIGION LO: TO PRACTICE INCLUDING WAYS OF READING IN WRITING.

Explore how power Is presented in Dracula. RELIGION How can we explore a reading of Religion in Dracula? Explore how power Is presented in Dracula. Now how can this all be applied to this question? Worship – renfield Women – Dracula Dracula is the devil – crosses and religious connotations in Transylvania Blood is the life Flesh of my flesh – Dracula as the creator.

Explore how power Is presented in Dracula. AO1: AO2: AO3: AO4: AO5: Plan the contents of the essay that addresses the above task. - Make sure you include some references to a Religious reading. Using last lessons worksheet as a guide, write up one of the points you have explored. Peer asses – using colour codes, identify where all AOs have been used in the written work. Hand in to be marked.

1. Leviticus Eating of Blood Forbidden …13"So when any man from the sons of Israel, or from the aliens who sojourn among them, in hunting catches a beast or a bird which may be eaten, he shall pour out its blood and cover it with earth. 14"For as for the life of all flesh, its blood is identified with its life. Therefore I said to the sons of Israel, 'You are not to eat the blood of any flesh, for the life of all flesh is its blood; whoever eats it shall be cut off.' 15"When any person eats an animal which dies or is torn by beasts, whether he is a native or an alien, he shall wash his clothes and bathe in water, and remain unclean until evening; then he will become clean.…

'Dracula is, of course, a morality play 'Dracula is, of course, a morality play. Forces of good and evil, clearly identified, clash until the climax and final destruction of the dread vampire. If the evil is more suave and seductive - more intelligent and attractive - than is the devil in medieval morality dramas, that may be simply an expression of modern sophistication.' Christopher Gist Raible, 'Dracula: Christian Heretic', 1979 (pp. 105) Christianity is portrayed in a positive light throughout Dracula. Miek Duran – Stoker’s Dracula as christia Fiction 3. Religious imagery and practice are explicit throughout the story. Literary critics often note the Christian allegory inherent in Dracula, not just in its overtly religious symbolism (crucifix, communion wafer, holy water, etc.), but ultimately in the collision of Christian ethics with Darwinian evolution, a topic that would have been of great interest to its Victorian audience. (See The New Annotated Dracula, pg. 542).

“Great God! Merciful God, let me be calm, for out of that way lies madness indeed.”–Dracula by Bram Stoker: Chapter 3 “The real God taketh heed lest a sparrow fall. But the God created from human vanity sees no difference between an eagle and a sparrow. Oh, if men only knew!”– Dracula by Bram Stoker: Chapter 8 “…the devil may work against us for all he’s worth, but God sends us men when we want them.””–Dracula by Bram Stoker: Chapter 12

A redemptive resolution A redemptive resolution. As Mina plummets toward Darkness, her husband Jonathan vows to kill the vampire, staking it through the heart and sending it to hell. Mina pleads with Jonathan to, if possible, slay the vampire first so that the Count may find redemption. What happens? I shall be glad as long as I live that even in that moment of final dissolution, there was in the face [of Dracula] a look of peace, such as I never could have imagined might have rested there.–Dracula by Bram Stoker: Chapter 27