Str u ctur e:
Cyclical: Starts and ends in Transylvania. Could be used to suggest that the cycle of good and
evil will continue but good will continue to prevail.
Links w Dorian’s cyclical structure: except that’s more pessimistic bc links w/ ephemerality
of life as his death makes no difference.
Epistolary format: Book written for entertainment and this makes it more entertaining
because reader knows what’s going on (ie. w/ Lucy) and more thrilling because it makes it
seem more real.
Links to morality play: Dracula represents evil in the world, and Mina & Merry Men
represent good. Underpinned by Christian traditional ideas, and Stoker’s personal politics on
women and foreigners, and ends w/ good vanquishing evil.
Dr acu la Plot Su m m ar y
Key Moment Quotes Context Other notes
Harker’s journey to “we were hemmed in with Gothic Natural imagery shows how the
Castle Dracula trees” conventions natural order around Castle Drac is
“broken battlements showed a subverted and threatening.
jagged line against the moonlit
sky”
Harker’s time at “there was no reflection of him Building idea of supernatural slowly -
Castle Dracula in the mirror!” uses the idea of the Other.
“on the very edge of a terrible
precipice”
“crawl down the castle
wall..face down”
Vampire Sisters “soft, shivering touch of the Women as Definite article “the” shows
(pg 32-34) lips” temptresses. inhumanity.
“deliberate Sibilance and animalism shows taboo
voluptuousness..licked her lips desire.
like an animal”
Harker stalking “great heap of gold…British, Antisemitic Syndetic list shows extent of the
Drac’s room (pg.41- and Austrian, and Hungarian… representation of hoard. Idea of reverse colonialism -
46) three hundred years old” greed. various currencies shows he’s
“he lay like a filthy leech” conquering.
Cyclical: Starts and ends in Transylvania. Could be used to suggest that the cycle of good and
evil will continue but good will continue to prevail.
Links w Dorian’s cyclical structure: except that’s more pessimistic bc links w/ ephemerality
of life as his death makes no difference.
Epistolary format: Book written for entertainment and this makes it more entertaining
because reader knows what’s going on (ie. w/ Lucy) and more thrilling because it makes it
seem more real.
Links to morality play: Dracula represents evil in the world, and Mina & Merry Men
represent good. Underpinned by Christian traditional ideas, and Stoker’s personal politics on
women and foreigners, and ends w/ good vanquishing evil.
Dr acu la Plot Su m m ar y
Key Moment Quotes Context Other notes
Harker’s journey to “we were hemmed in with Gothic Natural imagery shows how the
Castle Dracula trees” conventions natural order around Castle Drac is
“broken battlements showed a subverted and threatening.
jagged line against the moonlit
sky”
Harker’s time at “there was no reflection of him Building idea of supernatural slowly -
Castle Dracula in the mirror!” uses the idea of the Other.
“on the very edge of a terrible
precipice”
“crawl down the castle
wall..face down”
Vampire Sisters “soft, shivering touch of the Women as Definite article “the” shows
(pg 32-34) lips” temptresses. inhumanity.
“deliberate Sibilance and animalism shows taboo
voluptuousness..licked her lips desire.
like an animal”
Harker stalking “great heap of gold…British, Antisemitic Syndetic list shows extent of the
Drac’s room (pg.41- and Austrian, and Hungarian… representation of hoard. Idea of reverse colonialism -
46) three hundred years old” greed. various currencies shows he’s
“he lay like a filthy leech” conquering.
