Dracula, Victorian Fishbowl, etc.
Across
- 2. name of Mina's friend who Dracula turned into a vampire; we learn she has died at the start of chapter 14
- 5. Jonathan Harker's wife; she acts as the moral guide for the men in the novel
- 7. professor in the novel who figures out that Dracula is a vampire and writes to Mina that her friend Lucy is dead
- 9. during the late Victorian Era, England was experiencing a decline in their _____
- 10. the spread of disease or degeneration
- 11. the poorest, more urban side of London
- 12. the idea that certain spaces were "back in time" or declining
- 14. the richer and elite area of London
- 16. at the time, Victorians believed being poor was _____ and caused by biology, rather than being a social issue
- 21. characterized by going backwards in the evolutionary line
- 22. passed in 1864; women in public spaces could be arrested and subjected to medical exams
Down
- 1. there was a crisis of ____ at this time; men weren't fighting in wars or going on expeditions & almost half the Royal Navy had syphilis.
- 3. sexually transmitted disease brought to the West End
- 4. name for the end of the nineteenth century
- 6. type of Victorian woman who was a dutiful wife and mother
- 8. type of Victorian woman who had interests outside the home and was more independent than women previously had been
- 13. Victorians were anxious about the _____ binary and tried to cover up this anxiety by being hypermasculine or hyperfeminine
- 15. name of the central vampire in the novel
- 17. concept from Charles Darwin about the gradual development of living beings that also marked a cultural shift in Victorian society
- 18. Dracula is this kind of novel that is made up of letters, journal entries and newspaper clippings
- 19. type of Victorian woman who acted outside the norms of Victorian society
- 20. Dracula is the _____; means that he embodies difference and represents a threat to English society