Van+Helsing+1

=**Discussion Instruction with Role Assignments**=

**Instructions**
We are going to carry out a discussion in which each person has a specific character they must represent in the discussion. Each person must participate in the discussion in their character's point of view. (Sign up for a character below by putting your name next to it!). We will have two rounds of discussions that consist of each 20 to 25 minutes. Each round will consist of 6 characters speaking. As you can see below, there are same characters for each round, so there will be a total of two people for each character. You will sit next to the person who has the same character as you. If you are in round 1, then you will discuss in the first round of discussion. If you are in round 2, then during the first round you will sit next to the person with the same character as you and provide any help (such as finding textual evidence) that will support your partner in the discussion, but must not speak. (You may write things for them). After the first round ends, the people in round 2 will switch roles with the people in round 1. (In the second round of the discussion, round 2 people will talk and round 1 people will have to remain silent). Be sure to prepare textual evidence for it will help you support your point in the discussion.

Round 1 Questions: I felt a sense of loss and betrayal as I witnessed Lucy's change from an ideal Victorian woman to a demonic vampire. Though it had already been predicted from her condition that she had been associated with vampires, it was still a shock to see her as a vampire herself. Such a transformation strongly supported Jonathan Harker's claim that Count Dracula had come to Whitby and his encounter with the vampire. While I felt a sense of loss, I also felt the strong motive to remove her forever so that Lucy would not suck more children's blood. The conclusion was that she was Un-dead and that I would have to remove her physically.
 * Round 1**
 * How did you feel and what conclusions did you make as Lucy changed from an ideal Victorian woman to a demonic Vampire?

"He is cunning, as I know from Mr Jonathan and from the way that all along he have fooled us when he played with us for Miss Lucy's life and we lost; and in many ways the Un-dead are strong." (Stoker 181) -->conclusion: work of Count Dracula. Lucy is stronger as a vampire "I shall cut off her head and fill her mouth with garlic, and I shall drive a stake through her body." (stoker 179) -->conclusion: that Lucy needs to die. " Do you not feel that that are things that you cannot understand and yet which are; that some people see things that others cannot?" Yes. Though she had caused vampirism to be spread and sucked the blood of young children, she herself had been the victim of Count Dracula. After being bitten by the Count, she goes on to suck the blood of others herself--without choice, as Van Helsing implies that these are rules of vampirism. "... must go on age after age adding new victims and multiplying the evils of the world; for all that die from preying on the Un-Dead become themselves Un-Dead, and prey on their kind." (Stoker 190)
 * Are Lucy's acts justified when she sucks childrens' blood in the form of a vampire? (Think about possible connections to //Jekyll and Hyde//)