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    The document discusses Carol A. Senf's thesis from her work "The Unseen Face in the Mirror" that in Bram Stoker's Dracula, the story tells not of good overcoming evil, but of the similarities between good and evil. It notes that with only getting half the story from unreliable narrators, we cannot take what we read as 100% truth. It provides clues from the preface that records are from the perspectives and knowledge of those who wrote them, and that there are no authentic documents, questioning if the story can be accepted as proof. It suggests considering that perhaps the evil are not so evil and the good are not so good, as the narrators commit some of the same behaviors they condemn

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    The document discusses Carol A. Senf's thesis from her work "The Unseen Face in the Mirror" that in Bram Stoker's Dracula, the story tells not of good overcoming evil, but of the similarities between good and evil. It notes that with only getting half the story from unreliable narrators, we cannot take what we read as 100% truth. It provides clues from the preface that records are from the perspectives and knowledge of those who wrote them, and that there are no authentic documents, questioning if the story can be accepted as proof. It suggests considering that perhaps the evil are not so evil and the good are not so good, as the narrators commit some of the same behaviors they condemn

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    The document discusses Carol A. Senf's thesis from her work "The Unseen Face in the Mirror" that in Bram Stoker's Dracula, the story tells not of good overcoming evil, but of the similarities between good and evil. It notes that with only getting half the story from unreliable narrators, we cannot take what we read as 100% truth. It provides clues from the preface that records are from the perspectives and knowledge of those who wrote them, and that there are no authentic documents, questioning if the story can be accepted as proof. It suggests considering that perhaps the evil are not so evil and the good are not so good, as the narrators commit some of the same behaviors they condemn

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    Dracula Presentation The Unseen Face in The Mirror

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    The Unseen Face in the

    Mirror
    Pages: 474-484
    Written by: Carol A. Senf
    Presented by: Maria Socha
    Thesis
    In Dracula, Stoker tells a tale, not of the
    overcoming of Evil by Good, but of the similarities
    between the two.
    Perspective is Everything
    Unreliability of Narrators

    When we only get ½ of the story, can we believe what we are


    reading as 100% truth?
    CLUE 1

    Preface Warning
    “...All the records chosen are exactly
    contemporary, given from the
    standpoints and within the range of
    knowledge of those who made them.”
    CLUE 2
    Subjectivity

    “In all the mass of material of which the


    record is composed, there is hardly one
    authentic document… We could hardly ask any
    one, even did we wish to, to accept these as
    proofs of so wild a story”
    Consider: Maybe the Evil aren’t so Evil
    Consider: Maybe the Good aren’t so Good
    Good and Evil
    Narrators commit many of the same
    behaviors they condemn Dracula for, BUT
    these actions are overlooked.

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