Annotated Bibliography

Delahoyde, Dr. Michael A. BRAM STOKER: DRACULA. Washington State University.Fall 2009. Web.
 November 6, 2011. http://public.wsu.edu/~delahoyd/dracula.html

I will be using this site under the suggestion of Mrs. Cline. This site gives some very insightful information regarding the characters of the novel. I will use lines from the site to show the weakness of certain characters, which made them perfect victims of Count Dracula. He describes how Lucy was very vulnerable, due to her habit of sleepwalking, which made her the ideal prey for the Count, who represents sickness and death. Delahoyde also makes some good points about the background of the author Bram Stoker, which should prove to be very useful in pointing out how Stoker was using Dracula as a leazion for death. 

Hall, Sharon K. Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Ed. Sharon K. Hall. Vol. 8.Detroit: Gale Research,  1982. p383-403. http://galenet.galegroup.com.proxy.yc.edu/servlet/LitCrit?vrsn=1.0&dd=0&srs=ALL& locID=yava&b1=KE&srchtp=b&d1=TCLC_008_0024&c=20&ste=10&stp=DateDescend&dc=tiPG&
d4=0.50n=10&docNum=FJ35497500    24&b0=Dracula&tiPG=0

This article, which is from the Literary Criticism site of the Yavapai College library website, provided me with some very insightful information regarding the author Bram Stoker. I will use the information I have obtained from this source to show how, in Stoker’s young childhood years, he was a very ill child. I will be applying this to my essay by demonstrating that, because of the illness he had and the deathly stories he was told by his mother, he has portrayed Count Dracula has the monster who haunts the nightmares of the sick and weak.

Stoker, Bram (1995-10-01). Dracula. Public Domain Books. Kindle Edition.

I choose the novel by Bram Stoker as my primary text, because it is a novel that has surpassed the trial of time. Through out the many, many years since this novel was written, it has remained a popular read. I will use many different quotes from this novel in my final paper to show how Dracula is actually meant to be the object death that so many people from that time fear. During the period in which the novel was written, many people were the victims of plagues and other diseases, which often times implied the realization that death is inevitable.


(the formatting of the citations was impossible to get right, while posting to the blog)