Boundaries Crossed in Dracula Flashcards
“The instance, however, that I had stepped over the threshold, he moved impulsively forward”
Chapter 2
- geographical boundary
- Harker has entered Dracula’s territory and will suffer the consequences
“We are in Transylvania; and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways”
Chapter 2
- distancing Transylvania from England
- link back to context: Transylvania as an outsider country
“I must be dreaming when I saw them”
Chapter 3
- Crossing boundary of dream vs reality
- Harker has gone somewhere he shouldn’t have gone
- disturbed something ancient
“I fear it was no dream, and must act on this sunrise”
Chapter 4
- crossed boundary from rational to irrational
- acting on fear and instinct
“I didn’t quite dream; but it all seemed to be real”
Chapter 8
- crosses boundary of dream vs reality
- many characters confuse dreams with real events
“All men are mad in some way or the other”
Chapter 10
- crossing boundary of sanity vs insanity
“There must be transfusion of blood at once”
Chapter 10
- crossing biological boundary
- no one checks Lucy’s blood type; an inconsistency because the men’s blood might not match hers
Van Helsing “showed a great bundle of white flowers”
Chapter 10
- crosses boundary of natural vs supernatural
- garlic is used to mask the smell of human flesh and to prevent attacks
“They were made by Miss Lucy!”
Chapter 14
- crossing boundary of rational vs irrational and appearance vs reality
- context: Van Helsing realises Lucy is the one sucking children’s blood
“The coffin was empty!”
Chapter 16
- crossing boundary of rational vs irrational and dead vs undead
“We have the resources of science”
Chapter 18
- crossing boundary of science and religion
- taking a scientific and methodical approach to attacking Dracula, whereas Dracula has a supernatural approach to attacking the Crew of Light
“I must not deceive myself; it was no dream, but all a grim reality”
Chapter 21
- said by Renfield after being attacked by Dracula
- Crosses boundary of perception vs reality
“I know that all that brave earnest men can do for a poor weak woman”
Chapter 25
- crosses gender boundary
- suggesting if a woman has a lost soul she must be saved by a man
“We seem to be drifting into unknown places and unknown ways; into a whole world of dark and dreadful things”
Chapter 26
- crossing geographic boundary
