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Dracula: Chapter 8
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Notes

Plot summary Mina writes about her day out with Lucy but wakes up at 3am and
finds Lucy not in her bed
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Mina flies down the steep steps
towards the pier but as she approaches the abbey on the East
Cliff, Lucy is alone and breathing in ​“long, heavy gasps”​
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Lucy puts
her hand to her throat and moans
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They pray
together and Mina tucks Lucy in, who implores her not to tell
anyone about what happened
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The next night Lucy twice tries to leave the bedroom, but by dawn
she is back to her usual bright self
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Lucy goes to bed early that night and
Mina goes out alone for a walk
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When Mina returns to the room, she
finds Lucy getting back into bed, a hand clasped around her
neck
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Lucy
is deteriorating too
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Lucy appears to be much
happier and healthier and at last Mina receives news from
Jonathan - a forwarded letter saying that he has been ill
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She states that Jonathan has had a ​“violent brain
fever”
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Renfield runs to Carfax
and talks to someone but he is captured again
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“The silver light of the moon struck a half-reclining figure, snowy
white” - t​ he phrase ​“snowy white” s​ eems fairytale-esque,
portraying Lucy as the epitome of Victorian beauty standards
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He also appears to have tainted/ruined Lucy’s reputation, which
is juxtaposed with the symbolism of the white moonlight
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whether man or beast, I
could not tell” - ​this links to the Gothic idea that Dracula is
inhuman, as well as his ability to shapeshift between man and
animal
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“I could see a white face and red, gleaming eyes” - ​description of
Dracula with the white and red symbolism is prevalent again
(irony of the pure white against the hellish and dangerous red)
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“It seemed for an instant as if the stranger had great eyes like
burning flames” - ​links to the idea that “eyes are windows to the
soul” and Dracula’s appearance is piercing
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more like a wild beast than a
man
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Shows the
impact that severe mental illness can have on people, as well as
Renfield’s unpredictable and frightening nature
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Themes and
features (e
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Gothic)

Pathetic fallacy of the setting when Lucy sleepwalks - ​“heavy
black, driving clouds” a
​ nd the clouds which obscure the ruins of
the abbey
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Perhaps juxtaposes
Mina’s idea of the ​“New Woman”
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Context

The ​“New Woman” w
​ as a feminist character who was
“free-spirited and independent, educated and uninterested in
marriage and children”
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In reality, the
“New Woman” ​didn’t want to be trapped in loveless marriages
and felt the desire to pursue a career instead, making her similar
to the newly-empowered women of the 1960s and post-war years
(as many women filled the roles of their husbands, brothers and
fathers while they were at war)
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“I was filled with anxiety about Lucy, not only for her health
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This is also a very significant
worry for Lucy, as she is marrying a high status man with a
reputation to uphold
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Links to rest
of novel



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