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Dracula: Chapter 3
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Plot summary Now he realises that he’s being held captive, Jonathan rethinks
the events of the past few days before trying to quiz Dracula
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Dracula then tells Jonathan
to write to Peter Hawkins to say that he would be staying at the
castle for another month
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After retreating to his bedroom, Jonathan goes
up some steps and his paranoia - gained from the lack of sleep starts to set in
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Jonathan feels
sleepy and disobeys Dracula’s orders by sleeping in another
room
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As compensation, he offers them a
bag with a smothered child seemingly in it
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It may also
indicate his longing for a deceased wife or hint at the three
vampire women who approach a sleeping Jonathan
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“Blood is too precious a thing in these days of dishonourable
peace” - ​this hints at Dracula’s taste for blood, perhaps
suggesting that he sees it as a luxury or is finding it harder and
harder to source fresh meat
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Irony
is also found in the word ​“peace”, ​as Jonathan cannot sleep
soundly and has lost his sound and sharp mind in the castle
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“His quiet smile, with the sharp, canine teeth lying over the red
under-lip” - ​the repetition of the red and white colour palette,
suggesting the starkness of Dracula’s appearance and his
inhuman abilities
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“He finished his speech in a gruesome way, for he motioned with
his hands as if he were washing them” - t​ his could be an allusion
to Shakespeare’s Macbeth, as Lady Macbeth attempts to wash

her hands of the blood of a man she helps to murder
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This also suggests that Dracula sees Jonathan’s life as
disposable and insignificant
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This foreshadows Jonathan’s almost-death and also returns to
the motif of circles and eternal rings - he feels as if he will never
escape Dracula’s preying grip
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Lizards can also
change colour, highlighting Dracula’s ability to shapeshift
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Jonathan unknowingly
alludes to Dracula’s appearance with the ​“brilliant white teeth”
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Jonathan is struggling to resist this
temptation, although he feels guilty about the impact of the event
on Mina (his future wife)
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“The red light in them ​[Dracula’s eyes] ​was lurid, as if the flames
of hell-fire blazed behind them” - D
​ racula is a symbol of the Devil
and pure evil and this phrase reminds the reader that eyes are
considered windows to the soul
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Themes and
features (e
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Gothic)

“I looked out over the beautiful expanse, bathed in soft yellow
moonlight… the shadows in the valleys and gorges of velvety
blackness” - ​the landscape and weather is used here to create a
sense of comfort in Jonathan, as opposed to his usual fear of the
unknown
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The gentle verb
“bathed” s​ uggests warmth, rather than the usual violent
symbolism and pathetic fallacy of the climate
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There are also significant populations
of them in Serbia and Hungary, and the Szekelys played a role in
defending Hungary against the Ottomans

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