Asher Kramerberry

Gothic Literature
5/31/2022
7.05 Review Questions

1. Killing Lucy, Mina, or any other vampire could’ve been considered a merciful act of euthanasia
because killing a vampire frees them from a life of a vampire and allows them peace in death. It
could arguably be compared, I suppose, to the act of putting an animal down out of mercy when
they have no chance of recovering and would spend the remainder of their lives living out their
pain. While I do not know exactly what each character would do in their situations given the
opportunity to choose, I also highly doubt Lucy nor Mina would want to live as a vampire.
2. Physiognomy is the determining of someone’s characteristics based on their facial makeup while
phrenology is the determining of someone’s characteristics based on areas in their brain.
3. The poem “Totentanz” represents the recurring theme in Goethe’s works, that mankind should
not meddle with the activities of the supernatural, because it shows the consequences of a man,
the warder, interrupting nature’s course. As a result of his meddling, the warder would’ve been
killed by the vengeful skeleton had god not saved him.
4. Quincey is the vampire hunter who has died during the mission to kill the Count. Jonathan and
Mina honor him by later on naming their son after him.
5. I down’t think it necessarily matters how he behaves in the real world if he is to act him in a play,
but the actor hired to play the Count should look similar to how the book describes him, tall,
skinny, and slightly sickly looking (though this could be exaggerated using stage makeup). He
could have the white hair and mustache, but those could also be added in during the dressing of
the character.