03+Valuing+through+Context

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

Read the following by Karl Marx:

//"People make their history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances evidently encountered, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living."//

(Karl Marx, //The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte;// NY: International, 1963, p. 15)

1. Explain the origins of the Dracula strory. You will need to look at the historical figure and literary precedents. 2. Identify the different appropriations and how these are woven into Bram Stoker's novel. 3. What conclusions can you draw about the nature of composition and the creative process?