Dracula

• "He is mine"-Dracula Chapter 3-Transgression
• "Her white nightdress was smeared with blood"-chapter 21-Loss of purity
• "Why can't they let a girl marry three men"-Chapter 5 Lucy-Transgression
• "Purity to voluptuous wantonness"-Chapter 16-Transgression-Lucy
• "It seems to me that the further east you go the more unpunctual are the trains. What ought they to be in China?"-Chapter 1 Harker-Orientalism
• "but there was no reflection of him in the mirror."-Harker Chapter 2
• 'I find that the district he named is in the extreme east of the country, just on the border of three states'- Harker Chapter 1- points towards his irrationality and set up East vs West
• 'the light of the lamps'- Harker Chapter 1- represents rational society shining on superstitious east
• 'The castle is on the very edge of a terrible precipice'- Harker Chapter 2- Shows Victorian fears of falling back into the feudal system at the peak of modernity
• 'doors, doors, doors everywhere, and all locked and bolted'- Chapter 2 Harker- Shows frustration of the social constraints he has so as not to express his irrationality; setting also symbolises societies fears of its repressed desires
• 'though it seemed to be locked, gave a little under pressure'- Chapter 3 Harker- Repressed desires untouched yet willingly transgresses
• "Yes, I too can love:"- Highlights possible homosxual attraction to the count- Chapter 3 Harker
• 'I shall try to do what I see lady journalists do'- Mina Chapter 5- Embraces role of new woman
• 'Oh, Mina, dear, I can't help crying .'-Stoker highlights withholding female liberation as they are too emotional- Chapter 5
• "A brave man's blood is the best thing on this earth when a woman is in trouble"-Chapter 12 Van Helsing- Suggests that sex reinforces masculinity
• 'a great big strong fellow like you!'- Chapter 8 Lucy- Shows how society expects men to protect women
• 'She has a man's brain...and woman's heart'-reinforces idea that Lucy is androgynous in terms of gender-Van Helsing
• '...talking elemental philosophy, and with the manner of a polished gentleman'-Dr Seward- Left to question judgement throughout the story as he now suddenly believes Reinfield is sane
• '...his face flushed, and breathing heavily as though in a stupor'-Harker emasculated