https://padlet.com/julie_shirk1/u78eu62drt2r en-us 2018-02-28 16:18:26 UTC 2023-06-08 01:40:26 UTC hello@padlet.com kelsies290 https://padlet.com/julie_shirk1/u78eu62drt2r/wish/236498967  On page 29, Harker looked outside the window and what Harker saw horrified him. “What I saw was the Count’s head coming out from the window…But my feelings changed to repulsion and terror when I saw the whole man slowly emerge from the window and begin to crawl down the castle wall over that dreadful abyss, face down with his cloak spreading out around him like great wings…I saw the fingers and toes grasp the corners of the stones, worn clear of the mortar by the stress of years, and by thus using every projection and inequality move downwards with considerable speed, just as a lizard moves along a wall.” 
 I believe that this quote in Chapter III best explains the grotesque behavior in the beginning of the story because of the behavior of the Count. The behavior of the Count was very bizarre and would frighten the readers and Harker. This scene had purpose because it builds suspense and would cause the reader to want to read more. ]]> 2018-02-28 16:31:50 UTC https://padlet.com/julie_shirk1/u78eu62drt2r/wish/236498967 https://padlet.com/julie_shirk1/u78eu62drt2r/wish/236499409 “He insisted on carrying my traps along the passage, and then up the great winding stair, and along another great passage… he opened another door… it was a great bedroom well lighted and warmed… In the library I found, to my delight, a vast number of English books, whole shelves full of them (14-17).”  This quote is a brief explanation of how large and ornate Dracula's castle is.  In Gothic Fiction, a common theme is to have castles and large estates as the setting of the story. In Dracula, majority of the story takes place inside of the large castle.

]]> 2018-02-28 16:32:30 UTC https://padlet.com/julie_shirk1/u78eu62drt2r/wish/236499409 https://padlet.com/julie_shirk1/u78eu62drt2r/wish/236500546 2018-02-28 16:33:29 UTC https://padlet.com/julie_shirk1/u78eu62drt2r/wish/236500546 https://padlet.com/julie_shirk1/u78eu62drt2r/wish/236501087  “He knows that I know too much, and that I must not live, lest I be dangerous to him; my only chance is to prolong my opportunities.  Something may occur which will give me a chance to escape… There is a chance of escape, or at any rate of being able to send word home (35).” This quote is Jonathan Harker writing in his journal about being held hostage by Count Dracula.  In Gothic Fiction, isolation is a common theme and at this point in the story, Harker is isolated from the outside world, trying to regain contact with his loved ones but he cannot. ]]> 2018-02-28 16:34:10 UTC https://padlet.com/julie_shirk1/u78eu62drt2r/wish/236501087 https://padlet.com/julie_shirk1/u78eu62drt2r/wish/236501534 2018-02-28 16:34:48 UTC https://padlet.com/julie_shirk1/u78eu62drt2r/wish/236501534 kelsies290 https://padlet.com/julie_shirk1/u78eu62drt2r/wish/236503213 On page 31, Harker was curious and he fell asleep in another room. When he woke up he felt something was off in the room. “In the moonlight opposite me were three young women…There was something about them that made me feel uneasy…I could hear the churning sound of her tongue as it licked her teeth and lips, and could feel the hot breath on my neck…super-sensitive skin of my throat, and the hard dents of two sharp teeth, just touching and pausing there…another sensation swept through me as quick as lighting. I was conscious of the presence of the Count…I saw his strong hand grasp the slender neck of the fair woman…he hurled the woman from him and then motioned to the others… “How dare you touch him, any of you? How dare you cast eyes on him when I had forbidden it?... This man belongs to me!... Well, now I promise you that when I am done with him you shall kiss him at your will.” “
I believe this quote in Chapter III best explains the moral dilemma because the Count saved Harker from the women. If the Count did not save Harker, the women would have killed Harker. The moral dilemma is that the Count was protecting Harker. The violence had a purpose because it hints at what the Count might do with him in the future and if the women had killed him the Count could not do what he wanted to do with him. 

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