Dracula

Dracula

1. Key quotes: - ‘I sometimes think we must all be mad and we will wake to our sanity in straight-waistcoats’ (Dr Seward Chapter 20) - ‘I want to cut off her head and take out her heart’ (Van Helsing Chapter 13) - ‘The blood is the life the blood is the life’ (Renfield Chapter 11) - ‘Own life blood drawn away into the women he loves’ (Dr Seward chapter 10)

2. Critical interpretation: - ‘Stoker women fall into two classes victims and survivors’ (David Gates) - ‘ the men view the transfusions as metaphors for intercourse’ (Rebecca A Pope) - ‘A female desire at odds with a masculine gender code’ (Rebecca A Pope)