Quotations from Dracula

The threat of female sexuality

'The fair girl went on her knees'

'Fasten on my throat'

'Languorous ecstasy... waited with a beating heart'

'Wicked, burning desire'

'Some longing and some deadly fear'

Corruption

'Her white night-robe was smeared with blood'

'The blood which smeared her lips and cheeks'

'Unclean, unclean!'

'Polluted flesh'

'I must bear this mark of shame upon my forehead until Judgement Day'

'Then she began to rub her lips as though to cleanse them from pollution'

Christian salvation

'destroyed the false Lucy so that the true Lucy might live hereafter'

'There was in the face a look of peace'

Barbarism vs uncivilisation/ old vs modernity

'It seems to me the farther East you go the more unpunctual are the trains'

'Powers of their own which mere modernity cannot kill'

Transgression

'This so sweet maid a polyandrist'

'Why can't they let a girl marry three men'

'Four men's blood in her veins'

'Holiest love was the recruiting sergeant for their ghastly ranks' (AO3- Faustian Pact)

'The blood which smeared her lips and cheeks'

Good vs Evil (Manichean struggle)

'Devil or no devil, or all the devils at once, it matters not; we fight him all the same'

'Check to the King'

Muscular Christianity (AO3)

'We got out as old knights of the Cross' (Crusaders)

'Figure of Thor…mercy-bearing stake'

'We men pledged to raise the veil of sorrow from her head'

'Lifting our crucifixes advanced'