01+Novel+Groundwork

=**__Novel Groundwork__**=


 * 1) Identify the participants of the novel and comment on their class, ethnicity and motivation in the text.
 * 2) Identify FIVE events in the narrative that strike you as indicating some aspect of attitude or ideology.

MG Table...add to it! Motivated by his hunger for human blood. Wants to move to London so that he may have more people to feed on: The Romanians are too scared now. || (suggesting he is well-educated) || English (London) Speaks poor German || Essentially to perform a real estate transaction with Dracula Curiosity, will to escape from Count Dracula’s clutches. His love for Mina is also a motivation, as he wishes to return so that he may marry her. || Mina is best friends with Lucy Westenra (friendship motivation). Her love for Jonathan leads her to support him in his recovery from his 'sickness.' || He proposes to Lucy and she turns him down, yet he remains dedicated to her (love motivation). ||
 * **Character ** || **Social Class ** || **Ethnicity ** || **Motivation ** ||
 * Count Dracula AKA Liam || Nobleman & ruler || Transylvanian (Vampire) || Is essentially evil
 * Jonathan Harker || Solicitor/lawyer = middle class
 * Mina Murray (Later Mina Harker) || School mistress = middle class || English (London) || Virtuous Christian who wants to do the right thing.
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">Lucy Westenra || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">Lady = most likely upper class || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">English || Lucy Westenra is an innocent victim of the story with little motivation other than to stay alive, if not for herself then because she loves Arthur. ||
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">John Seward || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">Doctor = upper class. Fought in the army. || English || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">Seward interviews patients of his mental asylum because he wishes to understand psychosis.
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">Arthur Holmwood || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Helvetica','sans-serif'; font-size: 9.5pt;">Lucy’s fiancé, son of Lord Godalming = upper class. He too fought in the military. || English || <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Motivated by his love for Lucy. He, out of the three men that proposed to her, was accepted. He is the first to give a blood transfusion to her when she first gets sick. ||
 * Quincey P. Morris || Middle class. Also fought in the army. || American, from Texas. || Quincey is also motivated by love for Lucy. He is one of the men that were turned down by her, after proposing. He gives blood to Lucy, too. ||
 * Abraham Van Helsing || Upper Class. Professor and Intellectual. || Dutch, probably speaks German fluently. || Van Helsing is an intellectual and as such he very quickly forms his suspicions of vampirism upon his examination of Lucy. He tries desperately to save her, at first because of his friendship with Seward, then because he grows fond of Lucy. He then decides that they all much kill Dracula for the good of humanity. ||