Dracula Outline

Dracula Outline

1. I. The blood transfusion and phonograph portray the use of science and technology in the Victorian era novel Dracula by Bram Stoker.

   • A. The blood transfusion in the novel shows how medical science and technology was used in the Victorian era.
     • 1. "There is not time to be lost. 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. " My friend John and I have consulted; and we are about to perform what we call a transfusion of blood to transfer from full vveins of one to the empty veins which pine for him." (147)
         • 3. " Then he mixed a narcotic, and coming over to the bed, daid cheerily: Now, litter miss, here is your medicine." (105)
           • B. The Phonograph shows how science and technology were used to communicate by in the Victorian era.
             • 1. " So here I am finishing my entry in my phonograph diary whilst i await her" (197)
               • 2. " And so I have written it whilst we wait their return, and Mrs. Harker has written with her typewriter all since she brought the M.X to us" (367)
                 • 3. " The cylinders of your phonograph too were thrown on the fire, and the wax helped the flames." (497)
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