Science and superstition in the 19th century / exposé LLCE

Dracula

Science and supertitions in the 19th century

Alysse, Taous & Lili

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Dracula's text

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Science during 19th century -> Age of Science & Age of Reason -> Birth of science as a profession-> Era of secularisation -> Naturalistic science emerging Superstitions -> Prevailing belief in the supernatural and the influence of unseen forces

By the 18th century scientific authority > religious authority

Important sciences discoveries during 19th century

1808

Atomic theory - John Dalton

1833

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Term scientist was coined by William Whewell

1837

Patent for the electrical telegraph - Cooke & Wheatstone

1850

Germ theory - Louis Pasteur

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1859

Theory of evolution - Darwin

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1869

Periodic table - Dimitri Mendeleev

1898

Pollunium and Radium Pierre & Marie Curie

Example of literature

3 books of gothic genre

The midnight bell

Frankenstein

The monk

Matthew Lewis1796 Theme : supernatural, anti-catholicism, crimes, surface and substance

Francis Lathom1798 Theme : suspicion, melancholy, murder

Mary Shelley1818 Theme : Dangerous knowledge, monstrosity, isolation, revenge

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Superstitions in Dracula's text

Bram Stoker1897

The eve of St George's day

The old woman tells :

When the clock hits midnight all the evil things in the world will have a full sway.

A charm ?

Jonhatan harkey was in the caleche going to his next destination

Croud making sign of cross and pointed two fingers toward him. -> Charm against the evil eye.

The wolves

They were in the caleche driving in a chill night

- "Dogs" howling - Time approaching midnight - Moon sailing through the black clouds - A ring of wolves around them, all started to howl at once - A heavy cloud passed across the face of the moon, the wolves left.In the darkness, left with a dreadful fear.

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