Dracula
The novel is written in this distinctive format, using letters, diaries, and newspaper articles.
What is epistolary?
The novel’s structure is framed as a series of letters from this explorer.
Who is Robert Walton?
The novel explores this literary/philosophical concept—the idea that people may have a double.
What is a doppelgänger?
The Mariner’s shipmates are initially angered by his killing of this bird.
What is the albatross?
Scrooge’s former partner, Jacob Marley, appears to him wearing these heavy items, symbolic of his past greed.
What are chains?
This character is the first to fall under Dracula’s influence in England, eventually turning into a vampire.
Who is Lucy Westenra?
Victor Frankenstein creates his creature in this university town.
What is Ingolstadt?
This friend and lawyer investigates the strange connection between Jekyll and Hyde.
Who is Mr. Utterson?
This other text on our course syllabus directly quotes The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
What is Frankenstien?
This ghost takes Scrooge back to his childhood and early career.
Who is the Ghost of Christmas Past?
Dracula arrives in England aboard this doomed ship, whose entire crew mysteriously vanishes.
What is the Demeter?
This philosophical movement, which emphasized the power and potential dangers of science, influenced Frankenstein.
What is the Enlightenment?
Dr. Jekyll's transformation into Mr. Hyde is triggered by the ingestion of this substance.
What is a potion?
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is a prime example of this literary movement, which emphasized emotion, nature, and the supernatural.
What is Romanticism?
Scrooge’s change of heart is sealed when he sees his own death revealed by this final ghost.
Who is the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come?
Jonathan Harker travels to Transylvania for this specific purpose, unaware of the horrors that await him.
What is to conduct a real estate transaction (or assist Count Dracula with purchasing property in England)?
After the creature's creation, Victor Frankenstein suffers from a mental breakdown, which lasts for several months. He is cared for by this friend during his recovery.
Who is Henry Clerval?
After witnessing one of Hyde’s horrifying transformations, this character dies of shock.
Who is Dr. Lanyon?
The Mariner is cursed and forced to do this as punishment for his crime.
What is wander the earth and tell his tale?
Since then, at an uncertain hour,
That agony returns:
And till my ghastly tale is told,
This heart within me burns.
I pass, like night, from land to land;
I have strange power of speech;
That moment that his face I see,
I know the man that must hear me:
To him my tale I teach.
Scrooge’s mistreatment of this employee and his ill son, Tiny Tim, symbolizes his lack of compassion.
Who is Bob Cratchit?
Van Helsing uses this Christian sacramental object to repel Dracula and protect his victims.
What is the Eucharistic wafer (or consecrated host)?
The creature learns language and human behavior by observing this family from a hidden shelter.
Who are the De Laceys?
This event prompts Dr. Jekyll to permanently cease transforming into Mr. Hyde, leading to the monster's violent actions in the final chapters.
What is the murder of Sir Danvers Carew?
There are at least this many different versions of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Bonus points if you can name some years.
18
But I'll also accept three or four, as there were only 3-4 major versions.
Dickens’ novella was written in this year, at the height of the Victorian Christmas revival.
What is 1843?