Dracula quotes

• Harker: "God keep me"


  Relies on human faith against the unknown
• Harker: "Retreats to well-lit guest room"


  Fear of the unknown
• Harker: "Clothes I had worn"


  Fears of East invasion embodied through Dracula appearing like an Englishman
• Harker: "Kiss me with those red lips" "Burning Desire" "Waited, waited with a burning heart"


  -Loss of identity

  -Willing to become a victim

  -Link to homosexuality
• Harker: "More unpunctual are the trains"


  -Link to xenophobia

  -Disapproval of anything unknown
• Van Helsing: "Brave and gallant women"


  Emphasises loyalty and courage as Victorian virtues, qualities needed to uphold social and moral order
• Van Helsing: "Seek and save souls"


  -Religious against orientalist threat
• Mina: "White nightdress smeared in blood" chapter 21


  -Sexual emancipation of mina

  -Stained innocence

  -Grotesque parody of holy communion

  -Extent of transgression comparable to Lucy
• Mina: "Unclean! Unclean!" Chapter 22


  -Xenophobia

  -Conveys dears of foreign influence

  -Embodies anxieties about foreign threat to English purity
• Mina: "Man's brain, women's heart" chapter 18


  -Contributes to defending against foreign influence through transcribing and organising journal entries and records

  -political messages
• Dracula: "eyes blazed with demonic fury"


  -Orientalism

  -Has threatening allure and power
• Dracula: "He is mine"


  -Homosexuality

  -Transgression

  -Assumed homosexuality
• Dracula: "I am the last of my kind"


  -Loss of ancient power structures

  -Hints at themes of decay

  -Political fears of degeneration