Prompt: Novels and plays often depict characters caught between colliding cultures- national, religious, ethnic, institutional, regional. Such collisions can call a characters sense of identity into question. Select a novel or play in which a character responds to such a cultural collision. Then write a well-organized essay in which you describe the character's response and explain its relevance to the work as a whole.
Thesis: In Bram Stokers, Dracula, Jonathon Harker is caught between the colliding cultures of where he lives, and Transylvannia where Dracula is present, and because of it he is trapped between what he knows to be true and what he has always thought to be a story, causing his identity to be in conflict with itself until he overcomes the challenges placed before him.
Thesis: In Bram Stokers, Dracula, Jonathon Harker is caught between the colliding cultures of where he lives, and Transylvannia where Dracula is present, and because of it he is trapped between what he knows to be true and what he has always thought to be a story, causing his identity to be in conflict with itself until he overcomes the challenges placed before him.
- In this essay you would have to acknowledge the surroundings of Transylvania that serve as warning signs for Harker as he tries to follow through with his responsibilities.
- You would also have to acknowledge that Transylvania is extremely different from Harker's usual surroundings and how that shows who he is as a person when he doesn't acknowledge the warning signs all around him.
- Talk about how Harker's character develops as he overcomes the challenges of colliding cultures