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Dracula: Chapter 5
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Plot summary This short chapter begins with a letter written by Mina Murray to
her friend Lucy Westenra
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She also remarks on a letter she has received from
Jonathan, stating that he will return in a week, as well as asking
about Lucy’s supposed love interests
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She describes how, whilst Seward was devastated by the
rejection, even losing his appetite, Morris took it well and she
feels overjoyed to be marrying Arthur (although a bit miserable for
the other two men)
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Quincey Morris writes a letter
inviting Arthur Holmwood to a boozy campfire and he accepts
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This also highlights Mina’s competency and high status as
an assistant headmistress - showing her independence (unlike
Lucy, who is desperate to latch onto a man)
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“I think he ​[Mr Holmwood] ​is one of the most resolute men I ever
saw, and yet the most calm
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- ​link to later in the novel and the men’s changes in character
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The repetition of the superlative ​“most”
also implies that Lucy thinks highly of him - he is the best
possible match for her
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This also suggests that Victorian
women were expected to act in an honourable way and not lead
men on
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Lucy
appears self-indulgent as she only talks about herself and asks
Mina few questions about her life
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a possibly dangerous man, probably
dangerous if unselfish” - t​ he idea that Renfield has superhuman
strength hints to the reader that he is an embodiment of Dracula
and under his control
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The use of the adverb
“morbidly” ​however suggests that he is not conventionally happy
but is excited by death
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Themes and
features (e
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Gothic)

This chapter is written in a series of letters - initially between Mina
and Lucy
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It finishes with a
short telegram sent from Holmwood to Morris
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The tone of the novel
changes to one which is much more gossipy and light-hearted,
leaving the reader with the cliffhanger of Jonathan’s fate (a
Gothic melodrama)
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This would have been a very useful
skill for an educated woman to learn in the nineteenth century
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Lucy describes Arthur Holmwood as a “​parti”​
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Lucy’s mother also seems to
approve of their union, even though Arthur is portrayed as not the
most handsome or exciting of the three men
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Links to rest
of novel



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