06+Valuing+through+Construction+of+Other

==In this section you will examine how VALUES are reflected through TEXTS and what this tells us about WHYand HOW texts are VALUED.==

In all his book Bram Stoker presents people who are on a journey from the civilised west to the alien East. The West typically represents order, control an the familiarity whilst the East denotes chaos, exoticism and strangeness. This journey is usually what initiates the actions in his novels.

How does this relate to the novel as a whole? How does this strategy shape the ways readers respond to the novel?