A consolidated quote bank for Bram Stoker's Dracula, including a variety of direct textual quotes, sources, analysis, and critics. The bank is organised into main characters and 10x key themes, corresponding to the themes in my Frankenstein/The Bloody Chamber quote banks for easy comparison. Each s...
English Quote Bank (Dracula)
Characters:
Count Dracula (6 quotes)
Quotation Source Relevance/meaning
‘Rather cruel looking with Jonathan C2 Physiognomy reflects the
peculiarly white sharp teeth… Count’s malice and foreign
extraordinary pallor’ degeneracy
‘Downwards with considerable Jonathan C3 Sinister and uncanny as
speed, just as a lizard moves Jonathan realises his
along a wall’ supernatural nature
'Lay like a filthy leech… bloated Jonathan C4 Horror of blood and
face, bloodstained and with a grin immortality as Harker
of malice' cannot kill Dracula, only
wound his body superficially
‘Terrible resemblance to a child Unknown Sexual violation of Mina as
forcing a kitten’s nose into a C21 Dracula usurps role of
saucer of milk’ mother/nurturer in a clear
transgression of values
‘It was like a miracle… the whole Unknown Restoration of Western
body crumbled into dust’ C27 order against reverse
colonial threat
'He blurs the line between man David Punter, Transgressive threat to the
and God by daring to partake of critic order and values of Western
immortal life' society
Jonathan Harker (6 quotes)
Quotation Source Relevance/meaning
‘A chorus of screams from Jonathan C1 Western superiority over
peasants and a universal crossing the superstitious peasants
of themselves’ in the East
‘Locked and bolted...I am a Jonathan C2 Entrapment, emasculated
prisoner!’ and hysteric Gothic
protagonist
‘I doubt; I fear; I think strange Jonathan C2 Liminality and disrupted
things which I dare not confess to sleep, psychological
my own soul’ regression of Count
‘Lay Jonathan, his face flushed Unknown Passive to the defilement of
and C21 his wife; emasculated and
breathing heavily as though in a powerless
stupor’
‘On the instant came the sweep Unknown Jonathan redeems his
and flash of Jonathan's great C27 legitimated masculinity and
knife’ kills Dracula in a moment of
vengeance/redemption
‘Harker is a hero without a heroic David Gates, Harker represents
appearance’ critic consolidation of Western
masculinity against
transgressive foreign
powers
Mina Murray (6 quotes)
Quotation Source Relevance/meaning
, ‘When we are married, I shall be Mina C5 Mina as the New Woman
able to be useful to Jonathan’ who still submits to
patriarchal hegemony so is
not condemned like Lucy
‘Man's brain, woman's heart’ Van Helsing Van Helsing exalts Mina as
C18 a symbol of modernity;
resourceful
'Her white nightdress was Unknown Horrific imagery of sexual
smeared with blood' C21 violation and impurity,
blood as corruption
‘Unclean! Unclean! Even the Mina C22 Mark of Cain disturbing as
Almighty shuns my polluted Mina shunned by Christian
flesh!’ God that she exemplifies
and relies upon
‘This boy will someday know Van Helsing Redemption through
what a brave and gallant woman C27 motherhood as only
his mother is’ acceptable sexuality
‘Mina's sexual behaviour fits in Katheryn Mina = women as
with traditional societal norms’ Boyd, critic submissive and
conservative, perfect New
Woman
Lucy Westenra (6 quotes)
Quotation Source Relevance/meaning
‘Why can't they let a girl marry Lucy C5 Lucy displays signs of
three men… but this is heresy’ unacceptable sexuality so is
condemned to death as
promiscuity = abhorrent
‘Has taken to the old habit of Mina C6 Sleepwalking as a symbol of
walking in her sleep’ sexual wantonness and
degeneration
‘She advanced to him with Seward C16 Entrapment, weaponised
outstretched arms and wanton female sexuality to ensnare
smile’ men’s honour
‘With a careless motion, she Seward C16 Failed motherhood for
flung to the ground, callous as a rejecting role of innocent
devil, the child’ wife and mother
'Her face of unequalled Seward 16 Exorcised only in death;
sweetness and purity' statement on
oversexualised New Woman
‘A voluptuous, unnatural parody Greg On the vilification of the
of the New Woman as a sexual Buzwell, New Woman as embodied
decadent’ critic in Lucy
Abraham Van Helsing (6 quotes)
Quotation Source Relevance/meaning
‘Noble work...for mankind’ Unknown C9 Moral opposite to Dracula:
both foreigners, but Van
Helsing is benevolent
instead of malignant
‘It is true! I will pledge my life on Van Helsing Validates Jonathan’s
it’ C14 experiences using own
forbidden knowledge
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