dracula critics

david gates (setting)

'transylvania is a mysterious place where anything is possible'

david punter (dracula's supernatural presence)

'he blurs the line between man and beast'

mike duran (vampires)

'vampires are…portrayed as… vile, hellish beings'

david gates (women)

'stoker's women fall into 2 classes: victims and survivors'

david gates (Mina)

'mina seems the antithesis of the frail and emotional gothic heroine'

phyllis roth (female sexuality)

'the novel's appeal derives from its hostility towards female sexuality'

david gates (science)

'The "good" characters have 20th century technology at their command'

fred botting (dracula, life and death)

dracula is 'uncannily straddling the borders of life and death… undoing a fundamental human fact'

david punter (dracula and religion)

'dracula is a religious inversion… the blood is the life'

david punter (dracula and immortality)

'he blurs the line between man and god by daring to partake in immortal life'

stephen arata

dracula is […] a member of a ‘conquering race’ whose move to britain articulates the concern of ‘reverse colonisation’

sue chaplin

dracula’s attack on mina is figured symbolically as an act of rape. the episode symbolically re eneacts and reflects unease relating to the impotence of middle class men before the prowess of the aristocratic male