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“The blood is the life!”
reflects the concepts of Darwinian reversion and the obsession of Dracula's characters; Renfield mutters this phrase over and over, after hurting Steward with the knife —> obsession.
“This man belongs to me!”
Dracula about Jonathan, sexuality.
“She is one of God’s women, fashioned by His own hand”
Van Helsing about Mina
“the fault of our science {is} that it wants to explain all”
Van Helsing about science
“A brave man’s blood is the best thing on this earth when a woman is in trouble”
Van Helsing; blood as a way of suggesting men’s hereditary, biological dominance; blood transfusions.
“the sweetness was turned to … heartless cruelty”
Narration on Lucy; corruption.
“The castle is a veritable prison, and I am a prisoner!”
Jonathan H about the Castle; entrapment/
“voluptuousness…was both thrilling and repulsive”
Jonathan about brides; pleasing sort of terror; aggressive sexuality of brides lures him, and both repulses, as it goes against Victorian expectations of female purity.