DRACULA Bram Stoker:
Project description
Assessment 1.
Analytical Essay
Write 4000 word argumentative analysis of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, using feminist theory.
. You should apply Feminist analysis to Stoker’s Dracula
. First of all you should decide which kind of Feminism you want to use ( there are may : radical, liberal, materialist , French and so on )
Once you have done that you might want to think about some of the following issues
– The male author and women – listening for silence– women need a voice:
Literature and history:
Reconstructing an understanding of gender through literature in other words what does the text tell us about the representation of women in Stoker’s time women as designed by sexuality; women as wives and mothers– property: women as promiscuous : the prostitute women: women as virgins– and liberation: women as defined by passion ( do any of stoker’s women fall into these categories)?
What commentary is Stoker making about women you could think about the new the new woman and social anxieties that she provoked.
Bill Hughes chapter on gender is helpful
Assessment: Literature review- bibliographical exercise ( around 1000 words )
Relate the following question to the assignment you are submitting
1- Construct a literature review related to your assignment
2- Briefly describe the topic that you have addressed in your essay and why you chose that topic
3- Ensure that you locate yourself in an academic argument
4- Say where you went to find material ( library, database and so on)
5- More importantly say how you used this material
6- Give a list of the texts, which you used giving full bibliographical details
7- After each text give a brief summary of what it’s about and why it was useful for the essay( a sentence or two would be enough and will suffice in each case)
8- What lesson did you learn in adopting these steps in your research?
Footnote is required:
You should quote from the primary text which is Dracula and the other sources (quotation mark is essential and needed) quotation font size is 11 be sure the paper will pass all the plagiarism checkers.