04+Valuing+through+Voice

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

1. Identify instances when the voice in the text shifts from standard English to the Yorkshire, Scottish, American and working class dialects of various characters as well as the bizarrely fractured idiolect of VanHelsing?

2. What is the effect of this polyphony? To what extent dos this diversity of voices invite resistant readings? In your answer consider:
 * Do the many voices of the text make the novel seem more authentic to a contemporary reader or more alienating?
 * At home, view the film, //Bram Stoker's Dracula//, directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Compare and contrast the voices of the various characters in both texts. What can this tell you about valuing differences?