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Dracula Notes
Jude McCool
'Train an hour late' Contrast to Western culture of punctuality, foreshadowing
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'Transylvania, Moldavia and Bukovina' Typical Gothic Areas
'not able to light on any map' similiar to Dracula
'in the midst of the Carpathian mountains' obscure and isolated
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'unpunctual are the trains' recurring constrast of east and western cultures
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'looked at eachother in a frightened sort of way' villagers reaction alludes to impending danger
for the main protagonist
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'refused to speak further' recurring themes of ambiguity
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'Golden Mediasch, which produces a queer sting on the tongue' hinting of the unsavoury, offputting
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' - Comical Irony
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as we drove by I could see the
green grass under the trees spangled with the fallen petals
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'creep around us' hinting to Dracula's bad intentions
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'you must not walk here;the dogs are too fierce' menacing, intimidating enviroment, possible
link to Cerberus the Dogs guarding hell?
'the crazy coach rocked' physically un-seated by the landscape
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'Denn die Todten reiten schnell' (For the dead travel fast
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'a strange chill, and a lonely feeling came over me' - already feeling isolated
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'snort and scream with fright' fear/terror linked imagery
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'I heard his voice raised in a tone of imperious command' Dracula shed light upon as a domating
character early on
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'considerable size' excess?
'notice his prodigious strength' supernatural strength hints at the abnormal
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'The key was turned with the loud grating noise of long disuse, and the great door swung back'
Sensory description used to create a particularly viceral experience
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'as though his gesture of welcome had fixed him to stone' this fake exterior is obviously
unnatural for the Count
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'Strength of the handshake was so much akin to that which I had noticed in the driver' The initial
rise of suspicion from the protagonist
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which led into a small octagonal room' Labyrinthine
structure of the mansion
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'But still in none the rooms is there a mirror
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'Here I am noble;I am boyar, the common people know me, and I am master
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'his smile look malignant and saturnine' themes of deciet and concealment
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'I had not seen him, since the reflection of the glass covered the whole room behind me' - HE
CAN'T SEE DRACULA THIS IS SCARY
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'been present at them all' (Historical battles) this hints to Draculas supernatural age
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'Should sleep now or ever overcome you, or be like to do, then haste to your own chamber or to
these rooms, for your rest will then be safe' actual real danger posed
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'my lamp seemed to be of little effect in the brilliant moonlight, but I was glad to have it with
me
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'I suppose I must have fallen asleep' un-sure of even their own consiousnes
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'ruby of their voluptious lips' sexual undertone of description
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'as she arched her neck she actually licked her lips like an animal' beastiality links and continued
sexual language
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'full of fear', what was before an underlying terror is now very much present
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I am surely in the toils' Again an overriding
sense of fear is present
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'ensure case of mind to my friends' logical, calm and determined
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'Something may occur which will give me a chance to escape' he is desperate to escape his
entrapment
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'So, my friend, you are tired? Go to bed' Unsettling, manufactured care is unsettling
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'pair of Slovak [horses]' link to 4 horses of the Apocolypse
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'There was no cry from the woman, and the howling of the wolves was but short
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' He can't do anything to help his situation
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'lay the Count: He was either dead or asleep' actual real as a vampire
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'Tomorrow, my friend' fake amiable language
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'Judas in hell might be proud of' religion links with betrayal and sin
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'I shuddered as I bent over to touch him' so disgusting it makes him physically shake
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semi-demon
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'no lethal weapon at hand' defenceless, afraid
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'locked door
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'roll of heavy wheels, the crack of whips' excessive and dominant messages
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'And then away for home! away to the quickest and nearest train! away from the cursed spot'
repitition gives us the impression he is losing his mental stability, still desperate to escape
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'Oh, why did you tell us of this? It is my favourite seat, and I cannot leave it; and now I find I
must go on sitting over the grave of a suicide' Un-concecrated ground
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'in gay spirit' disconcertingly contrasted to Gothic themes
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S and M style
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I found my dear one, oh so thin and pale and weak looking'
sickly, as if drained -literally
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'when I knew that no other woman was a cause of trouble' female desire/jealousy
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p88 +89 are a general escape from Gothic themes, which in itself heightens the tension
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'They think I could hurt you! Fancy me hurting you' Comical almost sarcastic , we know not to
trust this character so we instantly feel uneasy
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the unexpected always happens' strong sense of foreshadowing
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'but I am full of vague fear, and I feel so weak and worn out' not even the characters can decide
what they are frightened about but its effect is so powerful it is taking its physical tole
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Her gaity remained for her servants were coming and going
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'I have come to the conclusion that it must be something mental' Physocoligcal terror
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'so swiftly the poison of the gangrenee from that knee' poisin, health and toxicity
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'This is no jest, but life and death, perhaps more' death/ unsettling humour
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p96 is a notable return to the inner-monologue style of commentary
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'sunset over London, with its lurid lights and inky shadows and all the marvelous tints that come
on foul clouds' romanticization of London, beauty from the ugly