Quotes Flashcards
“The castle is a veritable prison, and I am the prisoner”
Jonathan Harker- Demonstrates the theme of entrapment, he is forbidden from exploring the castle and is held there with a predator (Dracula)
“Doors, doors, doors everywhere”
Jonathan Harker- Repetition exemplifies the isolation in Castle Dracula, he has been welcomed into the castle but is forbidden from entering these doors
“There was a deliberate voluptuousness”
Jonathan Harker- Links vampirism (Vampire Brides) to sex, explores the taboo nature of female sexuality and places the Vampire Brides in a dichotomy with ‘virtuous’ female characters such as Mina
“I closed my eyes with a languorous ecstasy”
Jonathan Harker- Perpetuates the demonisation and fetishization of female sexuality by men, Victorian society prized female domesticity, and the characters of the Vampire Brides subvert the socially accepted behaviour
“We see around us every day the growth of new beliefs, which think themselves new; and which are yet but the old, which pretend to be young”
Van Helsing- Speaks on the theme of modernity and the danger of technological advancements on tradition, Van Helsing is the only character who embodies both modernity and tradition
“Thus are we ministers of God’s own wish: that the world, and men for whom His Son die, will not be given over to monsters, whose very existence would defame Him”
Van Helsing- Summarises the overarching theme of religion within the novel, reflects the cautionary moral tale that ‘Dracula’ was intended to be regarding the threat that scientific advancement posed for religious tradition
