Which of the following theorists is being referenced in this passage from emph{Dracula}? The Count is a criminal and of criminal type [.....] and qua criminal he is of an imperfectly formed mind. Thus, in a difficulty he has to seek resource in habit. His past is a clue, and the one page of it that we know, and that from his own lips, tells that once before, when in what Mr. Morris would call a tight place, he went back to his own country from the land he had tried to invade, and thence, without losing purpose, prepared himself for a new effort. He came again better equipped for his work, and won. So he came to London to invade a new land. He was beaten, and when all hope of success was lost, and his existence in danger, he fled back over the sea to his home. Just as formerly he had fled back over the Danube from Turkey Land.

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Which of the following theorists is being referenced in this passage from

A	Sigmund Freud
B	Herbert Spencer
C	Cesare Lombroso
D	Carl Jung

Explanation:

Detailed explanation-1: -Van Helsing while in the midst of a semi-trance that: “The Count is a crimina l and of criminal type. Nordau and Lombroso would classify him, and qua criminal he is of imperfectly formed mind.” As such, Mina tells the men assembled around her-Dr. Van Helsing, Dr.

Detailed explanation-2: -The society was founded in October 1973 by two actors, Bernard Davies (1924–2010) and Bruce Wightman (1925-2009) to organize Dracula-themed tours of Transylvania and Czechoslovakia.

Detailed explanation-3: -So for purposes of his story, Stoker called Dracula a “count, ” implying he was an hereditary nobleman with lands and an estate and responsibilities.

Detailed explanation-4: -Bram Stoker’s Dracula, the iconic 1897 tale of a vampire from Transylvania, is often thought to be inspired by a formidable 15th-century governor from present-day Romania named Vlad the Impaler. Vlad the Impaler (or Dracula), Prince of Wallachia.

Detailed explanation-5: -The central idea of this excerpt from Dracula was the fear of the prisoner living in the castle of Count Dracula who felt trapped and alone.

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