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Dracula C5-9 - complete Flashcards

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Mina Murray is one of whose women?

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‘One of God’s women’

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give a quote about mina Murray’s organs

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‘man’s brain’ and ‘woman’s heart’

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how is Lucy marked out as a coquette

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she says ‘why cant they let a girl marry three men, or as many as want her’

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What can the blood transfusions given to Lucy be seen as

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Female promiscuity - and hence her death is punishment

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how does stoker foreground mina’s independence

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○ Intellectual
○ Rational
○ She has a career (etiquette teacher)
○ She has a sense of adventure
§ She is interested in ‘strange countries’

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How does mina exemplify elements of the new woman

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she is inspired by lady journalists to try and remember what happened during the day/she is learning shorthand)

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How does mina straddle the new woman and more conventional female archetypes

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she is inspired by lady journalists to try and remember what happened during the day/she is learning shorthand)
○ However she is also doing all of these things to ‘be useful to Jonathan’
○ Therefore she has Elements of the ‘Angel in the house’
§ She has thus internalised patriarchal ideas

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What does the name Lucy mean

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light

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what does the name Westenra sound like

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Westerner

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what is the male version of the name Lucy

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Lucifer

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how does Lucy’s name embody the dialectical tensions in the novel

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  • Lucy is under threat just as light is under threat from the dark, and the west is under threat from the east
    (As Lucy means light and Westenra sounds like Westerner)
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what does Lucy say in her letter to mina about the nobility of men

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why are men so noble when we women are so little worthy of them?’

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How is Lucy struggling the the dual standards of Victorian femininity

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○ She feels success/triumph at being attractive to 3 men
○ However she knows she is meant to be ‘sober’ and ‘despise vanity’

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How is Lucy in a transitional state between girl and woman

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○ Lucy alternates between using the word ‘girl’ and ‘woman’ to describe herself
§ Sometimes she others herself from other women, calling them ‘girls’ and herself a ‘woman’ when she wants to fit in with patriarchal values
§ But sometimes she describes herself as ‘a girl’ when she wants sexual liberation
□ Perhaps she is trying to infantilise herself in order to give herself freedom from these patriarchal values with a kind of cherubim innocence

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Compare lucy and mina’s interaction with Victorian femininity

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  • Both have internalised Victorian values concerning women
    • They advocate female subservience just as strongly as their Victorian male counterparts
    • But they also challenge the norm in different ways
      Stoker is telling us that Mina’s way of challenging the norm is better than Lucy’s
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What is it called when the private fantasies of a character is expressed in a novel

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the ‘return of the repressed’ (from psychoanalysis)

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being engaged is what type of state

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liminal

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how do the narrator in the bloody chamber and Lucy have a shared trait

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  • The narrator understands that the marquis chooses her for her ‘potentiality for corruption’
    • Just like Lucy has a potentiality for corruption as she desires ‘three men’ or ‘as many as want her’
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give a quote showing people instinctively/superstitiously feeling the presence of Dracula without a rational explanation - from the log of the Deméter

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‘a panic of superstitious fear’

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give a quote signalling Dracula is a kind of anti-Christ figure

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‘it-Him’ and Him is capitalised showing he is potentially even on a par with God

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Give a quote linking the Demeter in the storm and the sublime

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‘One of the greatest and sudden east storms on record’

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the storm which damages the Demeter is a personification of who and what does this show us about that character

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personification of Dracula - animalistic and uncontrollable/the sublime/seems like a supernatural villain or beast

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Give a quote describing the storm which the Demeter is in

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‘roaring and devouring monster’

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give a quote linking to the gothic motif of death and the liminality between living and dead from the log of the Demeter

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clouds swept by in a ghostly fashion…the spirits of those lost at sea were touching their living brethren with the clammy hands of death

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give a quote showing mina’s contempt for the sexually liberal ideas of the new woman

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a. She says ‘I suppose the ‘New Woman’ wont condescend in future to accept. She will do the proposing herself. And a nice job she will make of it too!’
b. However she also says ‘there’s some consolation in that’ at the end of the quote (meaning that she is pleased there is some shortcoming to the advantage of independence and education that the new woman enjoys) showing she is on board with the economic and educational liberation of the New Woman, just not the sexual

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What type of state is Lucy’s somnambulism and what is she guided by while in this state

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a liminal state
Her subconscious

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What is Lucy wearing when she sleep walks and why is this significant

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‘Nightdress’
making her vulnerable, but also giving the act an air of the erotic - it is faintly sexual as she is wearing a dress she would wear in the bedroom only
a. Her state of dress is transgressive
b. Yet stoker is condemning her as transgressive, but potentially also trying to appeal to a heterosexual male audience
i. A feminist reading of this would be that stocker is employing the male gaze(Laura Mulvey) as the audience is forced to see women through the eyes of a heterosexual man
Lucy is like a ‘fallen woman’ (sex worker) as she goes out practically naked

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Give a quote describing the church yard in which Dracula sucks lucy’s blood And analyse it

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bright full moon, with heavy black, driving clouds, which threw the whole scene into a fleeting diorama of light and shade
a. It is dark and unknown/confused (as the light is shifting)
b. The scene is active with lots of movement despite it being a place which is meant to be still, silent and dead. This potentially indicates supernatural forces at work
c. The setting is gothic and sublime

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Give quotes suggesting the count is dominant over Lucy

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a. This is shown as Lucy is a ‘half-reclining figure’ and the count ‘stood behind…bent over it’

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Give a quote showing the use of colour scheme to highlight Manichaean conflicts in the scene in the graveyard when Lucy’s blood is sucked

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i. Lucy is ‘snowy white’ while the count is ‘something dark…whether man or beast, I could not tell’
1) The count is liminal

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Give a quote showing the sexual undertones to Lucy’s incident with the count in the graveyard, analyse it and then suggest an alternative interpretation

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her lips were parted…long heavy gasps [of breath]’
b. It could alternatively show how she is harmed and weakened by the count
i. ‘striving to get her lungs full at every breath’ suggests that she is fighting for her life, in an act of almost heroic fortitude

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what does Mina’s decision to put mud on her feet so that no one notices her bare feet show about her

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a. Rational, clear-headedness which is almost masculine it is so strong
b. Assiduousness/attention to detail which marks her intellect
c. Attention to social convention and cognisance of the bounds of propriety/modesty
i. This contrasts strongly with Lucy

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How is Renfield liminal

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boundary of insane and sane

34
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how does Renfield foreground the perverse nature of the vampiric act

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  • by eating live beings
  • in particular repulsive beings like spiders and flies
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What does renfield foreground in relation to masculinity

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foregrounds the otherness and repulsiveness of male subservience (as Renfield calls Dracula his master)

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give a quote evidencing Renfield’s masochistic will towards enslavement

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○ ‘I am here to do your bidding, Master. I am your slave, and you will reward me, for I shall be faithful. I have worshipped You long’
§ ‘Master’ is capitalised and so is ‘You’, showing the strong God-dynamic present in his subservience. As well as showing the perversion of his emasculating subservience, it shows satanism

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Give a quote about Lucy’s lifelong somnambulist habits

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‘as a child she used to walk in her sleep’
- this also indicates that Lucy inevitably had some kind of ‘potentiality for corruption’

38
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Give 4 quotes to describe Van Helsing

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philosopher and a metaphysician’ (Renaissance man)
‘Open mind’
‘Iron nerve’
‘All embracing sympathy’

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What does Lucy say about her view of mina

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‘I must imitate mina’
mina is like a role-model/sister figure/protective/guiding - this also suggests Mina is a role model for women in general

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What feelings are we supposed to have towards Lucy while she is in decline

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pathos

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what is the effect of the epistolary form in sections like Lucy’s decline

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  • It adds tension, as everyone has different levels of knowledge of the situation and so it adds to the atmosphere of confusion
    • It also adds verisimilitude to her illness, as it is being analysed and taken seriously by doctors
    • Male heroism starts developing as a theme, through the introduction of many male voices
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What disease is the description of Lucy as she becomes a vampire reminiscent of

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Tuberculosis
- TB was linked to vampirism
- this gives her both pathos and a certain glamour

43
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what motivates the men to intervene in Lucy’s decline

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  • their duty to each other as well to Lucy
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what condition does Lucy’s decline link to

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female hysteria/TB

45
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which characters die during the section of Lucy’s decline

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Lord Godalming (Arthur Holmwood’s father) and lucy’s mother
It gives a sense of the inevitability of mortality, and a growing vulnerable isolation for the characters (as the mature, older characters are dying) It also gives a sense of death and decay
- The mood is suffused with decline

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What sort of character is van Helsing

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the renaissance man
- He is a messianic/heroic character who has come to save Lucy, and is imbued with intellect and rationality but also crucially an ‘open mind’ - thus embodying the perfect compromise between conflicting Victorian cultural forces
Van Helsing is presented heroically and as The Renaissance Man

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What is a term for the female type that exists in the text who is a seductress/femme fatale (for example the vampire women who elicit Harker’s ‘burning desire’)

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the ‘other woman’

48
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how is the asylum a gothic setting

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○ Tension between rational and irrational
§ Explored through the relationship between Seward and Renfield
○ Sense of otherness
○ Freedom and entrapment
○ Master and servant
(The asylum is in the liminal space between all these dialectical opposites)

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how is the cemetery a liminal/gothic space

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○ Explores tension between living and dead(as it’s for the living and the dead)
○ Life and afterlife
○ Holy and profane
○ It’s a liminal space of meeting between all of these concepts

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How is the bedroom a gothic/liminal space

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○ Sleep and awake
§ Rational and irrational
○ Self and connection (sexual)
○ Master and servant (sexually)
○ Freedom and entrapment
○ Private vs. Public
§ In the Victorian social consciousness, to cross into someone’s bedroom is to cross into their private realm

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How is the castle a liminal/gothic space

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○ Explores tension between modern and ancient
○ Freedom and entrapment (being trapped within but free from the Out)
○ Master and servant

52
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  • Gothic exploits anxieties of liminal states
    ○ Supernatural ones like vampirism and lycanthropy (werewolves)
    ○ Social, Emotional and physical ones:
    Give some examples
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§ Engagement
§ Adolescence
§ Menopause
§ Dreams
§ Nightmares
§ Sleepwalking

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