A stereotype is a fixed and basic image or idea of a particular type of person or thing. A person who is often stereotyped is expected to live up to society's expectations, or so the stereotype suggests. It can be suffocating for an individual to live through preconceptions because it is not who that person is. These stereotypes cause others to dismiss that individual as a person and the qualities they have. Such stereotypes still exist now and have been impacting many people for a long time. Quincey Morris, a fictitious character in Bram Stoker's Victorian novel Dracula, for example, can be considered as a stereotypical character. Quincey Morris is a Southern gentleman from Texas. He speaks in American slang to almost everyone, giving the …show more content…
His abilities are often misunderstood and undervalued. Throughout the novel, he proves to be unlike any of the stereotypes. Quincey is sometimes neglected as an important vampire hunter in the story, but he exhibits numerous habits of mind and critical thinking traits. Quincey Morris is a skilled vampire hunter who aids the team more than is apparent. Although he is the team's underdog, he consistently defies expectations by outperforming them. Quincey is primarily thought of as the team's hunter, the one with the guns and excellent aim. But he does more for the group of vampire hunters than just that. By displaying the habits of mind of applying prior knowledge to new situations and thinking flexibly, he demonstrates his significance to the team. The group gathered to analyze Dracula's advantages and disadvantages as well as a strategy for taking him down in one particular moment in the book. As they are doing this, Quincey abruptly leaves the room, leaving everyone puzzled for a moment before they can resume their conversation. The team is startled when they unexpectedly hear a gunshot while conversing. When Quincey returns, he explains, "But the fact is that whilst the Professor was talking there came a big bat and sat on the windowsill. I have got such a horror of …show more content…
Only Quincey noticed the bat displaying his attentiveness. The team was just discussing Dracula's advantages, one of which is that he can shapeshift, but no one other than Quincey made the link that the bat may be Dracula himself. As a result, he is also applying prior information to new situations. Van Helsing's speech held everyone's attention to the point that they were unaware of their surroundings. This highlights how important Quincey is to the team's safety because Dracula very well may have disguised himself as the bat, which would have been disastrous for the group had he learned of their attack strategy. Quincey's capacity for observation is a much-needed quality. Quincey not only demonstrates the concept of applying prior information to new situations, but he also demonstrates flexible thinking. The team is now hunting for information regarding the crates that Dracula has been moving
Throughout the novel there are three main characters on the trail to catching Tom Chaney, Mattie, Rooster, and LeBoeuf. Between these three characters there is a possiblity for two of them to be the one true protagonist of this novel while the other two are antagonists and catalyst characters. The two characters who are in the running for protagonist are Mattie and Rooster – and the one who wins will change if LeBoeuf is the antagonist or catylist character. This novel follows mattie (the narrator), Rooster, and LeBoeuf as they chase the Ned Pepper Gang to bring Tom Chaney to justice for either killing Matties dad (what Mattie focuses on) or for killing a senator in Texas (what LeBoeuf is focusing on). These two perspectives causes tension
In Dracula multiple characters join together to defeat the vampire, with each individual bringing their unique skills to the group. Van Helsing, the expert, knows how to defeat the Count, Mina brings her observation skills and her ability as a writer, and Quincey Morris is an experienced hunter. In his article, “It Takes Capital to Defeat Dracula,” Richard Coe examines the motely group to find a uniting characteristic. Coe concludes that the rational, “bourgeois” characteristics of Stocker’s heroes allow them to defeat the medieval, emotional monster.
It takes time for Dracula’s foes to understand his true nature, and the novel builds in slow stages as they first suspect, then pursue the count, ultimately following him from England to the mountains of his home in Transylvania, in the country now known as Romania. Tensions build until the protagonist, Jonathan Harker, and his friend Quincey Morris encounter a band of gypsies who are transporting Dracula’s coffin. Professor Van Helsing and Harker’s wife Mina -- who is a victim of Dracula -- come upon the scene from another direction. By the time Harker and Morris fight their way through the gypsies, knocking the coffin onto the ground with the lid falling off in the process, the sun has set, and Dracula begins to wake. Mina observes his eyes
Dracula’s lust for Jonathan is seen through the use of illustrative language and symbolism in passage one. Stoker describes the Count having "eyes blazed with a sort of demoniac fury" due to the sight of blood. Stoker's utilization of ‘demoniac fury‘ frames Dracula’s behaviour as frighteningly inhumane. Supplementary to his use of red, fiery eyes which symbolizes the
He was seen as the hero of the novel. This acted in accordance with the quintessential fiction novel trope. However, Mina was pivotal in the discovery of Dracula’s real identity as well as finding his location, leading to his defeat. This challenges the female stereotype as women were underestimated and depicted as no real help. While Dracula’s depiction of women was quite positive, Nosferatu was not as much.
She is a gentle, caring person, while he is a vicious, bloodthirsty man/vampire. When she begins to exhibit vampiric symptoms herself, she uses her ailment in order to help the men (Jonathan Harker, Professor Van Helsing, Arthur Holmwood, Quincey Morris, and Dr. Seward) track and ultimately kill Count Dracula. When Dracula’s grip on her is the weakest, she understands that she can use information from hypnosis in order to calculate Dracula’s whereabouts. However, when Dracula’s power over her is the strongest, she does not possess her normal personality, and is ineffective in aiding in the hunt. Her motives for wanting so strongly to kill Dracula could be interpreted as both selfish and selfless.
Authors use many tools to describe and reveal aspects of a character in novels and short stories. In the short story, “Raymond's run,” the author, Toni Cade Bambara, use Dialogue to tell the reader about the main character Squeaky. Squeaky is a complex character. She is very determined about her running, and is very protective of her brother, Raymond. The author uses dialogue to reveal that Squeaky has the Character traits of determination, and protectiveness.
Throughout the excerpt from Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Stoker utilizes diction to convey the central idea that peoples’ worst fears lie in the unknown. In this section, the narrator is being held captive by an unknown entity. He begins to feel that his only hope is to understand the captor and starts to question the manner of the individual. In an effort to express the central idea, Stoker employs diction.
The book starts of by Dracula first welcoming his new guest, Johnathan Harker, by telling him, “Welcome to my house! Enter freely. Go safely, and leave something of the happiness you bring.” Once Johnathon Harker realized that Dracula had kept him prisoner and did not act like a regular human being he asked. Shortly following Mr. Harker escape Dracula leaves to England to find new prey.
In Dracula, Stoker constructed the novel as a series of journal entries and letters from multiple points of view. In doing this, he established an interesting and effective way of telling the story. First, we got an insight to many of the characters’ lives. We were able to experience each characters’ thoughts first-hand rather than through one traditional narrator. If it were through one traditional narrator, it would not be as interesting.
In the first place, it’s easy to say Jonathan is naive for not realizing Dracula is a vampire although in reality because we have read the title we have a decent expectation of what the plot will contain. Bram Stoker made Dracula 's lineage as a nobleman crucial because this allows Dracula to set
In relation to Dracula, the reader is never told how Dracula became a vampire. However, Van Helsing hints that as Dracula must have battled against the Turks “he was spoken of as the cleverest and the most cunning, as well as the bravest of the sons of the “land beyond the forest””(Stoker 224). In Dr Seward’s diary, Van Helsing learns from the researches of his friend Arminius of Buda-Pesth that Dracula “was in life the most wonderful man. Soldier, statesman, and alchemist—which latter was the highest development of the science- knowledge of his time. He had a mighty brain, a learning beyond compare, and a heart that knew no fear and no remorse” (Stoker 280).
In order to defeat Dracula, the protagonists use both religion and rationalism; as a result, arguments in favour of both sides of the debate are presented, which makes it impossible to reduce Dracula to one side or the other. The vampire hunters rely heavily on faith and religious objects, such as crucifixes and the eucharist, which presents an argument in favour of looking beyond rationalism and science to faith. As noted above, Dracula, by his fantastic nature, is something that defies reason, and thus religion is necessary to explain what rationalism cannot. Van Helsing makes a case for this when he urges “I want you to believe… in things you cannot.…I heard once of an American who so defined faith: ‘that which enables us to believe things
I believe Van Helsing is one of the most interesting characters in the whole book of Dracula. At a glance I think of Van Helsing as a very intelligent, down to earth, and caring man. The thing is with him is there is something about this man that separates him from all the other characters. If you read a summary of the story, I feel like you really would not even touch what his true self is like. Van Helsing is an essential part of the book, and without him the story would not be the same.
And suddenly too, I was unaccountably afraid.” The word “Unaccountable afraid” gives out he is speechless and terrified of Dracula, because Dracual gave Jonathan a photograph of Mina (his Fiancee.) THings become worse for Jonathan and his fear rapidly increases, “One night, my fears took on a form and shape and stood before me, and I saw them in their true horror. ”The word “True horror” means he saw something terrifying of Dracula and seemed still frightened from yesterday. In the middle of the play it makes you feel mysterious of him and terrified of the audience and makes them scared not knowing what he will do