Dracula 🧛🏾‍♂️🦇🩸 quotes + context

Pages of significant moments in Dracula

Page 1-46 = Harker in Transylvania

Pages 46-52 = Lucy and Mina letters + Seward letter on p52

Pages 58-61=-3 Seward and Renfield

Pages 64-73 =Description of Draculas trip to England

Pages 73-79=Lucys encounter with Dracula + aftermath

Pages 170- Vampire Lucy

Pages 230- Dracula attacks Mina

Quotes about Dracula that portray anti-Semitic depictions of a Jew

Page 15

“Aquiline nose”

“Heavy moustache”

“Long and fine nails”

Top of ears “extremely pointed”

“Golds of all kind”

Svengali similarities

“A stick, haunting, long, lean, uncanny, black spider cat”

“Piercing eyes”

Edward Drumant beliefs

French national socialist 1880s

“hooked nose, shifty eyes, protruding ears, elongated bodies”

Lombrosos beliefs, and quotes in Dracula they relate to

“Born criminal”- lower criminal race

These people are “apelike”, “greater skull thickness”, “large jaws”, “darker skin”

Helsing describes Dracula as being a”criminal mind” and of “child brain”

Max Nordua + Renfield

Believed degeneration was becoming increasingly prevelant in the “upper strata” of the population

Renfield is able to speak like a “distinguished gentleman”

Renfield quotes showing the nature of his lunacy

Religious comparison- “The blood is the life”

“I am here to do your bidding master”

Scientific parallels- “method in his madness”

“sensibly” “argued quietly”

Quotes showing the characters subscribe to physiognomy and phrenology

Harker- “you couldn’t with eyebrows like yours” Helsing- “so you are a physiognomist”

Seward refers to “Ferriers brain knowledge”

Dracula similarity to Picture of Dorian Grey

Both of the main villains form deteriorates as they accept evil and commit evil actions

Dracula is temporarily able to mask his true form, but at the cost of committing evil, anti-Christ actions

Physiognomy quote connnecting the two books

“Habitual state of mind tends to produce habitual forms and expressions of the face and body”-Nelson Sizer (operated from 1830s- 1890s)

Renfield quotes showing his semi-redemption

“I pray to God I don’t see your sweet face again, may he bless and keep you”

“Save my soul from guilt”

Chapter 18

Arthur and Lucy confrontation key quotes

Page 179

“ Blood from the peirced heart welled and spurted”

“The thing in the coffin writhed” “wild contortions”

“He looked like Thor” “mercy bearing stake”

“But Lucy as we had seen her in life”

Racial view of blood

Religious parralels drawn through blood

Views of research and writing

Draculas ancestry

Page 25- onward

“In our veins flows the blood of many brave races”

“What witch or devil was ever so great as Attila whose blood is in these veins”

Page 198

“ He follows the wake of the berserker Icelander, the devil begotten hun, the Slav, the Saxon”

“Multiplying the evils”

Victorian view of Eastern Europeans

Believed they had an abnormal vitality and fecundity

Comstant wars, massacre of Armenians by Turks in 1894

Dracula quotes about women’s idealised role

“It is no place for women

“Women’s heart”

“Her loving kindness against out grim hate”

No one but a woman can help a man when he is in trouble of the heart."

Quotes from Lucy’s blood replacement

Lucy’s impure blood must be replaced with English blood, in a partcular hierarchy of importance. Arthur is “of blood so pure we need not defribinate it”

Van Helsing says about the maids “I don’t trust those women” when Lucy needs more blood and the men have already provided

“Hoho, then this so sweet maid is a polyandrist”

Reverse colonialisation quotes

Harker is “exhausted” “nervous” “a wreck” He cannot touch Mina once she has been made “unclean”