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Dracula Outline

Thesis: In the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker, Victorian- era women were depicted as helpless and delicate whereas men were shown to be brave and chivalrous.

TS: Women in Victorian Society had to win their husbands approval because they were seen as weak or fragile.

CD: "Mrs. Harker is better out of it. Things are quite bad enough to us, all men of the world, and who have been in many tight laces in our time; but it is no plae for a woman, and if she has remained in touch with the affair, it would i time fallibly wreck her." (258)

CD: "We gointo danger, to which you are, or may be, more liable, than any of us from the circumstances..." (347)

CD: "And now for you, Madame Mina, this night is the end until all be well. You are too precious to us to have such risk. when we part tonight, you no more must question." (258)

TS: Men during the Victorian- Era were thought to be courageous, but also gallant.

CD: "My dear Mina, why are men so noble when we women are so little worthy of them? Here I am almost making fun of this great true-hearted getleman." (66)

CD: "Men like women, certainly their wives, to be quite fair as they are; and women, I am afraid, are not always quite as fair as tey should be." (70)

CD: "We are men, and are able to bear, but you must be our star and our hope, and we shall act the more free that you are not in danger, such as we are." (258)

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