Dracula Essay

Dracula Essay

1. In Bram Stoker's Dracula, advancements in science and technology assisted members of the Victorian era with saving lives.

   • Medicine and operations were apart of the science aspect in the Victorian era and became very useful to many.
     • "Then he mixed a narcotic, and coming over to the bed, said cheerily:- 'Now, little miss, here is your medicine.'" (105)
     • "He had evidently been thinking and had his mind made up, for almost before he saw the patient, he whispered to me, 'Send the attendant away. We must be alone with him when he becomes conscious, after the operation.'" (294)
     • "My friend John and I have consulted; and we are about to perform what we call a transfusion of blood to transfer from full veins of one to the empty veins which pine for him." (147)
   • The modern technology of this era included various forms of communication amongst the people of this time.
     • "So here I am finishing my entry in my phonograph diary whilst I await her." (235)
     • "And so I have written it whilst we wait their return, and Mrs. Harker has written with her typewriter all since she brought the Ms. to us." (367)
     • "Mr. Morris took me to the room in the hotel where our rooms had been ordered by telegraph, he being the one who spared since he does not speak any foreign language." (394)