Dracula Outline

Dracula Outline

1. Conclusion: The main difference between the Victorian society and out current society is the religion is used to fight back against society and we have almost completely forgotten about superstition.

2. Thesis Statement: In Dracula, by Bram Stoker, religion is used for people to cope with their surroundings, whereas superstition is used to hide behind things that scare them.

   • Topic sentence 2: The people of the Victorian era used religion to cope with what was happening to them.
     • CD 2: "Keep this near your heart'- as he spoke he lifted a little silver crucifix and held it out to me." (294)
     • CD 1: "When we started, the crowd round the inn door, which had by this time swelled to a considerable size, all made the sign of the cross and pointed two fingers towards me." (11)
     • CD 3: "My only comfort is that we are in the hands of God." (419)
   • Topic Sentence 1: The people of the Victorian era used superstition to hide from the strange things surrounding them.
     • CD 2:“It is the eve of St. George’s Day. Do you not know that tonight, when the clock strikes midnight, all the evil things in the world will have full sway? Do you know where you are going, and what you are going to?” (9)
     • CD 1: "I read that every known superstition in the world is gathered into the horseshoe of the Carpathians, as if it were the centre of some sort of imaginative whirlpool; if so my stay may be very interesting." (6)
     • CD 3: "What meant the giving of the crucifix, of the garlic, of the wild rose of the mountain ash?"(23)