Edward Barsegyan

English 102

11/1/2017

Professor Batty

Dracula Reflection

This reflection is on my drama analysis of the monster novel Dracula by Bram Stoker.

Professor Batty said my thesis was interesting but a lot of my points were disconnected from the

thesis. I added some concluding sentences to the end of my paragraphs to better link it to the

thesis, specifically in my paragraph about the comparison of Draculas bites to infections. I

added an explanation of how infections during the Victorian Era were rampant pre-penicillin and

one infection can kill a whole village. One of the quotes I had used was used twice so I had to

erase it and explain that paragraph with no quote but a good explanation. My quotes were

utilized correctly but were not formatted correctly. Some of the quotes I had that were four or

more lines long were regularly formatted when they should be formatted with a hanging indent

or a block quote. My quotes also had ellipses but were not needed at the beginning of the quote

only between the longer quotes. I mentioned Modernism in my paragraph about Draculas

appearance which I rewrote to mention the normal fad before the 19th Century. I mentioned

how before the 19th and 20th Century, anything that wasnt normal or recognizable was taboo

and hated, explaining why the citizens saw Dracula as repulsive. One of supporting points was

Draculas uncanny appearance compared to everyone else. I explained it but two of the following

paragraphs were covering the same point, so I combined all three of the paragraphs into one.