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Dracula: Chapter 12
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Plot summary Dr Seward arrives at Hillingham, Lucy’s residence, but cannot get
anybody to answer the door
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They enter Lucy’s bedroom and find her mother
partially covered in a white sheet and Lucy looking similarly pale
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Van Helsing rubs brandy on her lips, gums, palms
and wrists whilst Seward orders the drugged maids to run a hot
bath
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Seward and Van Helsing go downstairs to discuss her treatment
plan and are startled by Quincey Morris, who has been sent to
check on Lucy by Arthur Holmwood (who is attending to his dying
father)
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Van Helsing finds the note
Lucy wrote about the events of the night before
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Quincey asks Seward what they
know about Lucy
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She continues the
tearing motion, even after Van Helsing takes away the pieces of
paper
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Seward ends his entry fearing that she would
die soon
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He reveals that he’s left his entire will to the
couple, who celebrate, and Jonathan has become a partner
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Dr Patrick
Hennessey writes to Seward with an update about Renfield, who
verbally abused a man who was arriving at Carfax
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Mina writes another unopened letter to Lucy,
describing how Mr Hawkins has died and she is weary with the
burden of caring for the anxious Jonathan
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Van Helsing returns
and finds that the dots have disappeared from Lucy’s throat
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Lucy dies and looks more
beautiful than ever
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The word ​“frenzied” ​almost
aligns this distinguished professor with Renfield, a madman, and

his master Dracula
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However, it also
portrays his intellectual side - he is always desperate to search
for a cure for obscure diseases
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“A brave man’s blood is the best thing on this earth when a
woman is in trouble” - ​this perhaps indicates how scientific
knowledge surrounding blood transfusions was not as
well-developed as it is today
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This
also reinforces the Gothic motif of the “damsel in distress” who
needs saving from a strong man
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“Her struggle back into life was something frightful to see and
hear” - t​ his suggests that Lucy has been transformed into some
un-ladylike beast and that her ascent back to womanhood
becomes harder and harder each time she falls foul of Dracula
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However, the fact that it terrifies even the strongest members of
the crew of light suggests that Dracula’s powers are supernatural
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The repetitive plosive sounds of ​“poor pretty” e
​ mphasise
the empathetic atmosphere and show how everyone has a soft
spot for Lucy
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Lucy’s description as a ​“creature” ​also suggests that she
has become inhuman - but no one can put their finger on how
she has changed or what she is now
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The fact that her
mouth hangs open also suggests a docile yet animalistic change,

which is heightened by her predator-esque teeth
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Jonathan appears to be suffering
from night terrors, a symptom of PTSD, perhaps indicating how
he is in both mental and physical turmoil
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Renfield also utilises a metaphor of battle in
order to show how he believes that he is participating in a war
against humankind
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“The canine teeth looked longer and sharper than the rest” - t​ he
noun ​“canine” h
​ ighlights Dracula’s shapeshifting abilities (he took
the form of a dog when leaving the ship in Whitby) as well as his
control over the wolves surrounding Castle Dracula
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She
has irreversibly changed and Van Helsing’s interventions have
been ineffective
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The phrase also shows how weakened she is by
the exhausting events of the previous evening and that this has
reduced her status to that of a child
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This also contrasts her usual sweet, kind and naive
nature, clearly shocking the men
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This creates imagery of an internal struggle, in
which normal Lucy is losing a battle against the forces of evil
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Stereotypically, the mourning men choose to focus on
this rather than the fact that an actual human being has died even in death, Lucy continues to be objectified
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Blood mixing and its associations with disease and impurity, as
well as sensuality and a physical connection with another person
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Opiates were
prescribed for even the most common ailments in the Victorian
era, as doctors were unaware of their addictiveness

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