ALLUSION:
* The beginning of the novel, Dracula speaks to Harker about Vlad The Impaler. He doesn't mention him by name, but he talks about fighting of the Turks, and being proud of the land that he took back from his enemies. Vlad is remembered in history for being able defend Romania from Turkish invasion and for what he did to his prisoners of war. Geographically, many cities are mentioned towards the beginning of the book.
SYMBOLISM:
* Blood ~ represent life and death (good and evil)
- "I tried to kill him for the purpose of strengthening my vital powers by the assimilation with my own body of his life through the medium of his blood – relying, of course, upon the Scriptural phrase, 'For the blood is the life' " (XVIII . 239).
- "Blood is too precious a thing in these days of dishonorable peace; and the-glories of the great races are as a tale that is told" (III . 36)
* Communion and the Sacred Wafer ~ Christianity; the symbol of good that protects from evil.
- "On your forehead I touch this piece of Sacred Wafer in the name of the Father, the Son, and --" (XXII . 301).
SIMILE:
* "many brave races who fought as the lion fights, for lordship" (III . 35).
METAPHOR:
* "The blood is the life!" (XI . 147)
IMAGERY:
* Harker describing Dracula at the beginnning of the novel as soon as he reach Dracula's castle. He begins to notice Dracula's appearence and felt a strange vibe from him
- "I had noticed the backs of his hands as they lay on his knees in the firelight, they had seemed rather white and fine; but seeing them now close to me, I could not but notice that they were rather coarse - broad, with squat fingers. Strange to say, there were hairs in the centre of the palm. The nails were long and fine, and cut to a sharp point" (II . 25).
- "It may have been that his breath was rank, but a horrible feeling nausea came over me which, do what I would, I could not conceal" (II . 25).
* Stoker begins to describe Lucy's appearence before and after transforming into a vampire which changes both her appearence and behaviour.
-"This morning I am horribly weak. My face is ghastly pale, and my throat pains me. It must be something wrong with my lungs, for I don't seem ever to get air enough" (IX . 116).
- "We could see that the lips were crimson with fresh blood, and that the stream had trickled over her chin and stained the purity of her lawn death-robe" (XVI . 216).
- "Lucy's eyes in form and colour; but Lucy's eyes unclean and full of hell-fire, instead of the pure, gentle orbs we knew" (XVI . 216).
TONE/MOOD:
* Gothic, dark, melodramatic, morbid
FORESHADOWING:
* Seward notice the marks on Lucy neck as she gets ill and weaker everyday. Later Lucy turns into a vampire and start drinking blood from chrildren.
* Dracula got his eye set on Mina as his next target after Lucy.
* The beginning of the novel, Dracula speaks to Harker about Vlad The Impaler. He doesn't mention him by name, but he talks about fighting of the Turks, and being proud of the land that he took back from his enemies. Vlad is remembered in history for being able defend Romania from Turkish invasion and for what he did to his prisoners of war. Geographically, many cities are mentioned towards the beginning of the book.
SYMBOLISM:
* Blood ~ represent life and death (good and evil)
- "I tried to kill him for the purpose of strengthening my vital powers by the assimilation with my own body of his life through the medium of his blood – relying, of course, upon the Scriptural phrase, 'For the blood is the life' " (XVIII . 239).
- "Blood is too precious a thing in these days of dishonorable peace; and the-glories of the great races are as a tale that is told" (III . 36)
* Communion and the Sacred Wafer ~ Christianity; the symbol of good that protects from evil.
- "On your forehead I touch this piece of Sacred Wafer in the name of the Father, the Son, and --" (XXII . 301).
SIMILE:
* "many brave races who fought as the lion fights, for lordship" (III . 35).
METAPHOR:
* "The blood is the life!" (XI . 147)
IMAGERY:
* Harker describing Dracula at the beginnning of the novel as soon as he reach Dracula's castle. He begins to notice Dracula's appearence and felt a strange vibe from him
- "I had noticed the backs of his hands as they lay on his knees in the firelight, they had seemed rather white and fine; but seeing them now close to me, I could not but notice that they were rather coarse - broad, with squat fingers. Strange to say, there were hairs in the centre of the palm. The nails were long and fine, and cut to a sharp point" (II . 25).
- "It may have been that his breath was rank, but a horrible feeling nausea came over me which, do what I would, I could not conceal" (II . 25).
* Stoker begins to describe Lucy's appearence before and after transforming into a vampire which changes both her appearence and behaviour.
-"This morning I am horribly weak. My face is ghastly pale, and my throat pains me. It must be something wrong with my lungs, for I don't seem ever to get air enough" (IX . 116).
- "We could see that the lips were crimson with fresh blood, and that the stream had trickled over her chin and stained the purity of her lawn death-robe" (XVI . 216).
- "Lucy's eyes in form and colour; but Lucy's eyes unclean and full of hell-fire, instead of the pure, gentle orbs we knew" (XVI . 216).
TONE/MOOD:
* Gothic, dark, melodramatic, morbid
FORESHADOWING:
* Seward notice the marks on Lucy neck as she gets ill and weaker everyday. Later Lucy turns into a vampire and start drinking blood from chrildren.
* Dracula got his eye set on Mina as his next target after Lucy.