Dracula

Dracula

1. In this novel,culture in the Victorian Era was very different from today's culture.

   • Culture in the Victorian Era was significantly different than today's culture.
     • "Welcome to my house! Enter freely. Go safely, and leave something of the happiness you bring." (Stoker 19)
       • "We are in Transylvania; and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways, and there shall be to you many strange things." (Stoker 26)
         • "In the courtyard and down the rocky way the roll of heavy wheels, the crack of whips, and the chorus of the Szgany as they pass into the distance." (59)
   • Things were done differently back in the Victorian Era as well.
     • " 'You will need, after your journey, to refresh yourself by making toilet. I trust you will find all you wish. When you are ready come into the other room, where you will find your supper prepared' " (Stoker 21).
       • "It is the eve of St. Georges Day. Do you not know that tonight, when the clock strikes midnight, all evil things in the world will have full sway?" (Stoker 5)
         • "I asked the waiter, and he said it was called 'paprika hendl,' and that, as it was a national dish, I should be able to get it anywhere along the Carpathians." (Stoker 3)