Dracula Essay !!!!!!

Dracula Essay !!!!!!

1. The modern medicine of the Victorian Era let the characters advance and cure others to fight back and save lives

   • For example, "Then he mixed a narcotic, and coming over to the bed, said cheerily:- ' Now, little miss, here is your medicine."'(105)
   • Another reason is, "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)
   • In addition, "She will die for sheer want of blood to keep the heart's action as it should be. There must be a blood transfusion at once." ( 127)

2. With the telegrams and phonograms, the characters could easily reach each other and record data or evidence.

   • In addition, "So here I am finishing my entry in my phonograph diary whilst I await her." (235)
   • It also says, "'I keep [my diary] in this.' As he spoke he laid his hand on the phonograph. I felt quite excited over it, and blurted out: – 'Why, this beats even shorthand! May I hear it say something?"' (261)
   • For example, "Mr. Morris took me to the room in the hotel where our rooms had been ordered by telegraph, he being the one who was spared, since he does not speak any foreign language" (394).

3. In Bram Stoker's "Dracula," the technology and advancements, such as communication and modern medicine,were used to attack and as a weapon toward the evil the characters faced.