ANIMALITY IN HUMAN BEHAVIOUR IN

DRACULA BY BRAM STOKER AND THE

HANNIBAL SERIES BY THOMAS HARRIS.
Author: Ewelina Kalwat
 THE OUTLINE OF MY MA THESIS
Introduction

1. Dracula by Bram Stoker

Biography of Bram Stoker

The plot and setting of Dracula novel (main motifs used in this novel; film adaptations)

Vlad the Impaler as an inspiration for creating the main character

Description of Count Dracula

Drinking blood and killing people in order to survive

Interrelation between Dracula and Jonathan Harker

2. Hannibal series by Thomas Harris

Biography of Thomas Harris

The plot and setting of Hannibal series (The silence of the lambs, Red dragon, Hannibal, Hannibal rising; film adaptations and TV series)

Description of dr. Hannibal Lecter and his psychological analysis

Cannibalism and description of the murders commited by Hannibal Lecter and why they were commited

Interrelation between dr. Hannibal Lecter and 1. William Graham 2. Clarice Starling

Conclusion, comparison, contrast

THE REASONS WHY I
CHOSE THOSE
BOOKS
 Darwins theory of evolution 1859
Gothic literature - a genre or mode of literature and
film that combines fiction and horror, death, and at
times romance. Its origin is attributed to English
author Horace Walpole, with his 1764 novel The
Castle of Otranto
Marry Shelley: Frankenstein (1818)
Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray
(1891)
John Polidori: The Vampyre, A Tale (1819)
Henry James: The Turn of the Screw (1898)
LITERARY
TRADITION
 BIOGRAPHY OF
born in Clontarf , Ireland on November 8, 1847 BRAM STOKER
recognized as one of the most prominent Gothic authors of (1847-1912)
the Victorian period
Stoker's life is shrouded in mystery, from his rumored
participation in occult circles, to his purported death from
syphilis
died on April 20, 1912 in London

selected works:
The Primrose Path (1875)
Under the Sunset (1882)
The Snake's Pass (1890)
Dracula (1897)
The Mystery of the Sea (1902)
 THE PLOT AND
setting (time) End of the 19th century SETTING OF
setting (place) England and Eastern Europe
(Carpathian mountains, Transylvania)
DRACULA
themes The promise of Christian salvation; the
consequences of modernity; the dangers of female
sexual expression
motifs Blood; Christian iconography; science and
superstition
symbols The weird sisters; the stake driven
through Lucys heart; the Czarina Catherine
narrator Dracula is told primarily through a
collection of journal entries, letters, and telegrams
written or recorded by its main characters:
Jonathan Harker, Mina Murray, Dr. John
Seward, Lucy Westenra, and Dr. Van Helsing.
point of view Shifts among the first-person
perspectives of several characters
tone Gothic, dark, melodramatic, righteous
 SELECTED FILM
ADAPTATIONS
'Dracula (1931)

'Dracula (1979)

'Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)

COUNT DRACULA
 BIOGRAPHY OF
THOMAS HARRIS
(BORN APRIL 11,
1940)
born April 11, 1940 in Jackson, Mississippi, USA

an American writer, best known for a series of

suspense novels about his most famous character,
Hannibal Lecter
all of his works have been made into films

selected works:
Black Sunday (1975)
Red Dragon (1981)
The Silence of the Lambs (1988)
Hannibal (1999)
Hannibal Rising (2006)
 PLOT AND SETTING
OF HANNIBAL
1. Red Dragon (1981)
secondary source in my MA
SERIES
2. The Silence of the Lambs
(1988): Quantico, Baltimore,
Memphis, and Ohio, early
1990s
3. Hannibal (1999) : USA,
Europe : Italy
4. Hannibal Rising (2006):
starts in Lithuania (1941)
ends up in Baltimore, USA
TV SERIES AND FILM
ADAPTATION
Film adaptations:
The silence of the lambs
(1991)
Hannibal (2001)

Red dragon (2002)

Hannibal Rising (2007)

TV series:
Hannibal (2013 2015)
HANNIBAL LECTER
 COMPARISON OF COUNT DRACULA
AND HANNIBAL LECTER
Count Dracula dr. Hannibal Lecter
A vampire (half-human, half- A human (psychiatrist)
animal)
Drinks blood Cannibalism
Classified as a "devil Classified as a "pure sociopath"
Cant survive without drinking Can survive without "eating people
blood
Sucking blood as a symbol of illicit Lack of sexual interest
desire and sexual repression
The extreme sense of smell and sound
CONCLUSIONS