Dracula Quotes

Question 1

Sense of danger and foreshadowment. Johnathan. Chapter 1

Answer 1

“every known superstition in the world is gathered into the horseshoe of the Carpathians, as if it were the centre of some sort of imaginative whirlpool”

Question 2

East vs west. Johnathan. Chapter 1

Answer 2

“…one of the wildest and least known portions of Europe”…“seems to me that the further East you go the more unpunctual are the trains”

Question 3

First signs. Johnathan. Chapter 1

Answer 3

“both he and his wife crossed themselves.” “strikes midnight, all the evil things in the world will have full sway”

Question 4

“lamp” symbolises rational soceity shining on the superstitious east. Johnathan. Chapter 1.

Answer 4

‘the light of the lamps…projected against…the figures of my late companions crossing themselves’

Question 5

uncertainty conveyed in ‘I think’ questions epigraphs belief that memory is always fact. Harker knows little of his irrational other. Jonathan. Chapter 1

Answer 5

‘I think I must have fallen asleep and kept dreaming of the incident’

Question 6

setting used to show Victorian fear of falling back into feudal past at ‘peak of modernity’. Johnathan. Chapter 2

Answer 6

‘The castle is on the very edge of a terrible precipice’

Question 7

repetition shows frustration at social constraints to evade uncovering own irrationality. Setting also symbolises societies fears of its repressed desires. Johnathan. Chapter 2

Answer 7

‘…doors, doors, doors everywhere, and all locked and bolted’

Question 8

o servants and rich suggests Dracula is not a real man. He is a symbol of capitalism and alludes to how Marx described capitalism as a vampiric force, sucking the blood from the working classes. Johnathan. Chapter 2

Answer 8

‘I might let the servants know I had finished - but I could not find one.’

Question 9

his repressed desires are untouched but he willingly transgresses. Johnathan. Chapter 3

Answer 9

‘though it seemed to be locked, gave a little under pressure’

Question 10

Harker uses his diary entries as a way of rationalising the irrational. Chapter 3

Answer 10

‘The habit of entering accurately must help to soothe me.’

Question 11

antithesis of ‘wicked’ and ‘desire’ shows how Harker knows his ‘eve of wedding’ desires cannot be shown (social repression) but knows he’s transgressed. johnathan. Chapter 3

Answer 11

‘I felt in my heart a wicked desire’‘both thrilling and repulsive’

Question 12

‘lashes’ - feminine symbol shows how Harker is emasculated by the vampire women. Chapter 3

Answer 12

‘I was afraid to raise my eyelids, but looked out and saw perfectly under the lashes’

Question 13

potential homoerotic desire of the Count highlights Victorian fear of subversive sexuality. Dracula. Chapter 3

Answer 13

“Yes, I too can love:…’

Question 14

embraces liberated role of New Woman here. Stoker alludes to how women’s professions were broadened. Mina. Chapter 5

Answer 14

‘I shall try to do what I see lady journalists do…’

Question 15

Lucy is liberated and transgresses from social norms. Victorian fear of New Woman leaving loyal domestic role is revealed. Chapter 5

Answer 15

‘Why can’t a girl marry three men, or as many as she wants to?’

Question 16

Acknowledges duplicity and blurring of boundaries Dracula represents. Mina. Chapter 8

Answer 16

‘What was it, whether man or beast, I could not tell’

Question 17

‘half’ suggests ambiguity as it is a medial state between being victimise and transgression. Mina. Chapter 8

Answer 17

‘…I could see Lucy half-reclining with her head lying over the back of the seat’

Question 18

suggests Renfield is insane because he refuses to acknowledge a hierarchy.
Makes us question Seward’s professional judgement. Chapter 8

Answer 18

‘the God created from human vanity sees no difference between an eagle and a sparrow’

Question 19

exaggerative to reinforce own masculinity
- blood transfusion represents modern attempt to subdue supernatural and sex - Van Helsing suggests sex is what reinforces masculinity. Chapter 12.

Answer 19

“A brave man’s blood is the best thing on this earth when a woman is in trouble”

Question 20

Seward (Chapter 12)

- ‘choking’ implies being overcome; Arthur is overcome by emotion, an ironically feminine characteristic

Answer 20

‘Arthur was simply choking with emotion’

Question 21

Seward (Chapter 13)

• hysterics typically a condition treated for women as it means ‘from the womb’
• suggests blurring of gender roles through Van Helsing’s laughter - transgressive

Answer 21

‘he laughed again, and laughed and cried together, just as a woman does’

Question 22

Seward (Chapter 16)

- New Woman seen as corrupting purity of Victorian ideology

Answer 22

‘…and that the stream had trickled over her chin and stained the purity of her lawn death-robe’

Question 23

Seward (Chapter 16)

- positions Lucy as Medusa figure - she emasculates men - resembling fear of New Woman to social and religious authority

Answer 23

‘Lucy’s eyes unclean and full of hell-fire’

Question 24

Van Helsing (Chapter 16)

• image alludes to Harker’s earlier image in Chapter 4.
• highlights fear of the ‘other’ being released into everyday spaces uncontrollablySeward (Chapter 16)
• objectifies Lucy to make it easier to commit violent act of killing her

Answer 24

“And so the circle goes on ever widening, like as the ripples from a stone thrown in the water”

‘The Thing’

Question 25

Seward (Chapter 16)

• actions show pain but also sexual arousal on Lucy’sSeward (Chapter 16)
• Arthur positioned as god-like in reclaiming masculinity by staking Lucy part

Answer 25

‘The body show and quivered and twisted in wild contortions’

‘He looked like a figure of Thor’

Question 26

Mina

• Mina reinforces masculinity of Jonathan despite the fact we know he has had a breakdown.
• Proves lack of self-insight in fighters of Dracula

Answer 26

‘He was never so resolute, never so strong, never so full of volcanic energy’

Question 27

Van Helsing

• reinforces idea that Mina is androgynous in terms of gender.Van Helsing
• forced subordination of Mina

Answer 27

‘She has a man’s brain…and woman’s heart’

‘but it is no part for a woman’

Question 28

Seward (Chapter 21)

- symbolic of forced sexual encounter with Dracula. Seward positions it as assault

Answer 28

‘Her white nightdress was smeared with blood’

Question 29

Seward (Chapter 21)

• Mina’s exclamation shows how she believes she has corrupted the purity of marriage
• intertextual reference to Leviticus

Answer 29

“Unclean! Unclean!”

Question 30

Harker (Chapter 22)

- simile about wafer suggests Mina has transgressed and destroyed Christian purity

Answer 30

‘had burned into the flesh as though it had been a piece of white-hot metal’

Question 31

Van Helsing (Chapter 27)

• ‘shudder’ highlights the terror of understanding one’s own barbarism
• Van Helsing has lack of self-insight, suggesting killing vampire women is not murder

Answer 31

‘I shudder as though I have come to do murder’

Question 32

Van Helsing (Chapter 27_
- Van Helsing positions female sexuality as threat to men

Answer 32

‘…the voluptuous mouth present to a kiss - and man is weak’

Question 33

Mina (Chapter 27)

- weaponry usually a masculine utensil but Mina has it, so is on equal footing with men

Answer 33

‘The Professor and I…held out weapons ready’

Question 34

Mina (Chapter 27)

- simile reveals how Crew of Light he killing Dracula not as brutality but as defending religion

Answer 34

‘It was like a miracle’

Question 35

Van Helsing (Note)
- Mina positioned as combination of masculine and feminine qualities which must be preserved. Stoker shows Mina as the perfect New Woman - link to Sos Elis

Answer 35

“What a brave and gallant woman his mother is. Already he knows her sweetness and loving care”

Question 36

Harker (Chapter 4)

- highlights Victorian fear of foreigners infiltrating British purity.

Answer 36

‘he might satiate his lust for blood, and create a new and ever widening circle of semi-demons…’

Question 37

Harker (Chapter 4)

- highlights violence of Victorian society beneath moderate surface

Answer 37

‘A terrible desire came over me to rid the world of this monster’