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Dracula: Chapter 4
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Notes

Plot summary Jonathan awakes in his own bedroom and, from the unusual
pattern of his laid-out belongings, surmises that Dracula must
have carried him there
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Jonathan attempts to befriend some gypsies and seemingly
convinces them to post warning letters
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The next
morning, Jonathan awakens to find his writing paper, travel
details, coat and suit gone
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Jonathan describes this as ​“his new scheme of evil”
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Jonathan
climbs down from his open window to Dracula’s window and
enters his room
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He finds nothing until he looks inside one of
the boxes of dirt and sees Dracula lying there
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The following day, Dracula posts the final letter and Harker insists
on leaving that night
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The next day Harker scrambles down the wall and
searches Dracula’s body for a room key before attempting to
murder him with a shovel
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Key quotes

“An outrage upon friendship and hospitality!” - ​Dracula is
offended by Jonathan writing a letter in shorthand to Mina, which
he of course cannot understand
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Indeed,
Dracula has also locked Jonathan in his bedroom and forced him
to engage in complex conversations at unsociable hours
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“A low, piteous howling of dogs somewhere far below in the
valley
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He has begun
seeing things in his dreams and may even be imagining sounds
(although we cannot be sure due to the biased narrative)
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The silence also symbolises
Dracula’s feasting on blood, meaning that a person must have
died
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“A deathly, sickly odour, the odour of old earth newly turned” reminds the reader of Jonathan’s previous description of the
Count’s sour breath
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“He was either dead or asleep, I could not say which - for the
eyes were open and stony, but without the glassiness of death and the cheeks had the warmth of life through all their pallor, and
the lips were as red as ever
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“Such a soft, smooth, diabolical smile” - ​again, this portrays
Dracula as very villainous
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“The last I saw of Count Dracula was his kissing his hand to me;
with a red light of triumph in his eyes, and with a smile that Judas
in hell might be proud of” - k​ issing of hands to show status,
indeed Jesus’s disciples used to kiss his hands as a mark of
respect and - ironically - equality (reminds the reader of the Bible
story where Jesus washes his disciples’ feet, also called
Maundy)
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This
divine imagery is contrasted by the blazing fires of hell which are
still found in the Count’s murderous eyes
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His dreams are
haunted by their figures and he wakes up screaming, needing to
escape the moonlight
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“I have not yet seen the Count in the daylight
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“None of it ​[coins] ​that I noticed was less than three hundred
years old
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“There lay the Count, but looking as if his youth had been
half-renewed” - ​only half-renewed because he is many hundred
years old! Blood gives vampires vitality and strength
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They complete tasks, such as delivering boxes of
earth, for him obediently
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Everything he has witnessed at the
castle contradicts his position in society as a reputable and moral
man
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Repetition of the word ​“cursed” a
​ lso reinforces Jonathan’s
insanity

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