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Dracula: Chapter 11
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Plot summary The chapter starts with Lucy writing about how grateful she is to
Dr Van Helsing due to her excellent sleep
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She informs them that she removed
the garlic flowers from Lucy’s room and opened a window, for
fear that the stench would be too much for her, in her weak state
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However, Van Helsing is enraged and the men go up to Lucy’s
room together
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He then tells Mrs Westenra not to
disturb Lucy again and says that he will watch over her for the
next few nights
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The narrative is interrupted by an article from the Pall Mall
Gazette, about an escaped wolf from the zoo
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Bilder describes how one of the wolves, Bersicker, is
going mad and only a strange man is on hand to help him
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A few days after, the wolves stop
howling, Bersicker runs away and one gardener claims to have
seen a grey dog roaming the zoological gardens
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We flick back to Dr Seward’s
diary, as he remarks that Renfield came into his study and tried to
attack him with a dinner knife
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Van Helsing sends a telegram to
Seward, ordering him to come to Hillingham
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Lucy is
awakened by the flapping at the window, but there is no one
there to soothe her
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Lucy’s mother comes
into her room and gets into bed with her, but is scared by the
flapping at the window
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In a frenzy, Mrs Westenra snatches the
garlic flowers from Lucy’s neck then falls backwards, knocking
Lucy unconscious
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In
the morning, the maids come in and Lucy instructs them to go
and have a glass of wine to cure their shock
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Lucy ends the chapter fearing for her life
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Devils or no
devils, or all the devils at once, it matters not; we fight him all the

same” - V
​ an Helsing resolves himself to fight the evil forces that
are controlling Lucy and the ignorance that they are up against
with her mother
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This
portrays Van Helsing as a heroic figure who wishes to protect the
honour and virtue of dear Lucy
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“He looked on the poor face with the same awful, waxen pallor as
before
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No matter what he does, she still displays the same pale
complexion which continues to confuse this esteemed doctor
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“It is as if I had passed through some long nightmare, and had
just awakened to see the beautiful sunshine and feel the fresh air
of the morning around me” - ​Lucy’s description of her
enlightenment, which has allowed her to sleep easily, once again
uses the climate to portray emotion
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However, the actions of Van Helsing and Seward appear to be a
tonic to her and she has a new found appreciation of life
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close at hand was only one man, a tall, thin
chap, with a ‘ook nose and a pointed beard
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” - ​the use of phonetic sounds to portray
Bilder’s accent presents him as stupid and lower class as well as
creating a comic tone
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The description of Dracula also mirrors
Jonathan Harker’s at the beginning of the novel
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Indeed, he
believes that wolves are slower and less intelligent than the more
evolved dogs
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“In rushed my patient, with his face distorted with passion” description of Renfield
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Dogs and wolves are significant juxtaposing motifs in this
chapter
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It also
shows the power that Dracula has to control the environment
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It could also, as
in this case, be a poison if a lethal dose is administered

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