chapters 17-21 - complete Flashcards by Counter Time

before they meet, Seward expects harker to embody ___ but instead he finds ‘___give a quote__’

muscular Christianity
a ‘quiet, business-like gentleman’

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how is the asylum a liminal setting

exposes the boundary between madness and sanity

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Dracula is the other - a post colonial reading would take this as implying he is also what?

a monster

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there is an antithesis between the ‘other’/’monster’ and what people in the story?

‘good men’

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in the quote ‘man’s brain’ and ‘woman’s heart’, the organs are examples of what

metonyms (for intelligence and care)

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when mina is wronged, what does harker become consumed by?

‘volcanic energy’
- demonstrating a hyper masculinity

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give a quote about mina being connected with the maternal

she has a ‘mother spirit’

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how is mina antithetical to the vampire women in a key way (to do with the maternal)

mina has the ‘mother spirit’ but the vampire women and Lucy eat children (subvert maternal conventions)

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being a sceptic in victorian literature is good/dangerous

dangerous

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Dracula has what type of animal at his command which he floods the chapel where he is storing his coffins with - what does this animal symbolise (give 4 things)

rats
○ Otherness
○ Invasion
○ Contamination/disease
○ They reproduce quickly
§ Population anxiety
§ From a post-colonial perspective this shows xenophobic fears

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mina’s symptoms of becoming a vampire sound like what condition
- give an example of one such symptom

female hysteria
- being over emotional (‘crying like a silly fool’)

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the fact that the coffins go to London links to what genre

the urban gothic

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why are urban settings primed for the gothic

meeting place for many people so fears around immigration and disease can be exploited

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what does renfield exclaim about Dracula? what does this show?

‘come in Lord and master!’
- he is a willing slave

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what two contrasting things is renfield described as?

a ‘pet lunatic’ and a ‘polished gentleman’
- He defies social categories, disturbing the Victorian mindset
Showing appearances can be deceptive
This is disturbing to Seward
He calls Renfield a ‘pet’ (dehumanising him)

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renfield is an example of someone who is undergone ___at the hands of Dracula

degeneration

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renfield compliments 3 of the 4 men - what is the quote that evidences this, who is left out?

‘nationality, heredity…possession of natural gifts’
harker is overlooked (not mentioned by Renfield)

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at the end of the scene where renfield pleads for his release how is renfield described as speaking? what wider theme does this link to?

with a ‘well bred voice’
the ‘lunacy panic’ - who is mad and who isn’t?

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what is the lunacy panic idea

fear as to who is mad and who isn’t

mina is experiencing troubled sleep, over emotionality during her degeneration however she decides to do what?

‘I shall put a bold face on’
- suppress her own emotion to preserve Jonathan’s state of mind in a performance of femininity

mina says what about the role of women and gender performativity - give the quote and a sentence of analysis

‘I suppose it is just one of the lessons that we poor women have to learn’ (when talking about repression of over emotionality)
howing stoker sees this repression as a necessary part of the role of women - he sees women having a duty to present as the ‘Angel in the house’
□ However he also acknowledges that this role engenders a certain amount of pathos, as women are ‘poor’
- However this is also a ‘lesson’, showing gender identity is learnt and a performance
§ From a feminist perspective, this is gender performativity
□ The idea that gender is a ‘performance’ which we learn from other people and have to

what is gender performativity as an idea?

the idea that gender is a performance which we learn from other people

in the scene were mina is forced to drink Dracula’s blood, how is the imagery of breastfeeding drawn upon? how is it subverted (give 2 ways)

mina is sucking from Dracula’s ‘bosom’
as Dracula ‘opened a vein in his breast…pressed my mouth to the wound’
- the imagery is very disturbing and subversive
- having a male in the female position subverts the image
- having an adult (Mina)in the position of the child shows a Gothic disturbance to the natural order

the end of the scene in which mina is forced to drink Dracula’s blood is sexualised - give a quote to support this - what is blood a proxy for?

§ ‘I must suffocate or swallow some of the…’
Blood is a proxy for semen

where does the scene were mina is forced to drink Dracula's blood take place?

in mina's bedroom

in gothic/victorian literature a woman's bedroom is a proxy for what

the woman's body

a woman's bedroom is meant to be ___. it can't be entered by anyone apart from her and_____ as invasion of the bedroom constitutes an invasion of ____

sacrosanct/absolutely pure husband the body

how does van helsing justify his entrance to mina's bedroom when entering to try and save her from Dracula

he is a doctor

give a quote from the scene when mina is forced to drink Draculas blood about kitten and milk imagery - how does this emphasise the cruelty of Dracula's act? what does it suggest about dracula's moral position? what does it suggest about mina's level of innocence?

'a child forcing a kitten's nose into a saucer of milk' (compared to Dracula forcing mina to drink his blood) § Because it is a child (meant to be morally pure and innocent) being cruel § However they have no sense of right and wrong - which makes children amoral § So this image is amoral and not immoral □ Perhaps the count has no sense of right and wrong - no moral compass at all? § The kitten is more innocent than the child (Mina is more innocent than an innocent child - very innocent?)

what does Dracula describe mina's blood as and what ritual does this link to

'my bountiful wine-press' - transubstantiation - a subversion of the eucharist

Dracula teases her during his attack - what kind of moment is this?

a sadistic moment - like the marquis in the bloody chamber who calls the protagonist 'my little nun'

mina is both ___ and __ impure after her encounter with Dracula

physically and morally

drinking Dracula's good is equivalent to what for mina?

sex outside of marriage - she is effectively a fallen woman

mina has blood smeared on her lips after her encounter with Dracula - what does she call this blood

'pollution'

the count has what on his forehead

a mark - due to Jonathan hitting him with a shovel

how is Harker emasculated in the scene where Mina is forced to suck Dracula's blood - give 4 ways in which this happens

he is the victim of a symbolic adultery (cuckolded) ○ As Mina has been attacked on the bed she shares with Harker - They invade his bedroom - His face is ‘flushed’ he seems to be in a ‘stupor’ Mina feels sorry for Harker ‘As if [Harker] were the injured one’

in the scene were mina is forced to suck dracula's blood there is a great deal of ____ as it is a violation of her identity and body and she says she feels an '____ grief' what does she feel this grief for?

pathos endless - her life/connection with God

mina does/doenst feel complicit in her violation by Dracula? give a quote to support your answer

does ○ ‘what have I done to deserve such a fate, I who have tried to walk in meekness and righteousness all my days’ ○ She says ‘I did not want to hinder him’ § She understands her complicity

what does Dracula call mina?(referencing the bible) who does this make mina?

'flesh of my flesh' (this is verbatim in Genesis 2:23) eve - the ultimate fallen woman

after mina is violated by Dracula how is Jonathan described (after being emasculated)

having 'all the man in him awake'

give a symbol showing mina poses a threat of corruption to Harker

Harker’s ‘white night-robe [is] stained with blood where her lips had touched’

mina recognises what Dracula has done to her - what does she exclaim?

'unclean, unclean!'

how could mina's interaction with Dracula and the corresponding effect on the relationship between mina and harker be read as a microcosm?

- If Harker stands for all men, and Mina stands for all women - Mina now thinks of herself as Harker’s ‘worst enemy’ because of her capacity for corruption - she thinks she shouldn't touch or kiss him anymore as he is unclean This scene could be a microcosm for contemporary attitudes to gender role

give 3 characters in other texts which can be used to explore madness

bertha mason in Jane eyre victor frankenstien in frankenstien Jekyll

mad characters in the gothic often posses what

forbidden knowledge

how does the fact that angela Carter has read Dracula influence our reading?

- She is using stoker’s writing (AO4) - For example Dracula has used symbolic sex scenes and a sadistic character (Dracula) ○ She turns symbolic scenes and supernatural characters into literal sex scenes and human characters (such as the Marquis)