Context for Dracula, Wuthering Heights and Macbeth

Dracula Context

1859 Darwin's theory of evolution (the brides)
Advancement in science (blood transfusions)
Prostitution (the brides)
1897 British empire made people skeptical towards the east (Transylvania)
1895 Oscar Wilde who was prosecuted for homosexuality (authors views on sexuality and how it can be perverse
Religion (cross, wafer)
Gothic era

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Industrial revoltuion (role of gentility changed- Heathcliff reflects the wealth created through this change)
Romanticism
1838-1901 Victorian Era - phase of expansion
Gothic era
Social Class (How Heathcliff, Hareton jump between classes)
Victorian repression
Catherine shows signs of the Suffragette movement that was to come years later after Wuthering Heights was published

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James I & II
The supernatural/witches were drowned and burned (People were more afraid of witches than they are now)
The gun powder plot & regicide (Killing Duncan reflects Guy Fawkes trying to blow up the house of lords against James I & II)
The Gowrie conspiracy was an assassination attempt on James I
James was crowned as King of England. English people were wary of a Scottish King coming into England. This is similar to when Macbeth becomes King.
The horror of the play reflects the Jacobean era
Equivocation- a play about deceiving

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