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    After many failed attempts to save Lucy from transistioning, Van Helsing, an esteemed vampire hunter, and newfound friend to the characters, hopelessly cries out to God. “God! God! God!” he said. “What have we done, what has this poor thing done, that we are so sore beset? Is there fate amongst us still, sent down from

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    Learning Log #2: Dracula by Bram Stoker ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Quotes & Analysis ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapter 1 - 7 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapter 1 - “I read that every known superstition in

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    wilfully go out of their way to help people without expecting anything in return. Some examples of this would be Dr. Van Helsing and his friends and people who try to help Lucy get back to normal. An example of why Van Helsing is so good is that when Dr. Seward asked him to come help Lucy when she was sick, he stopped whatever work he was doing and went to help Dr. Van Helsing was a vital part in helping to stop Dracula because he was an expert on Vampires. One of the reasons that makes the “good”

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    are not his wife entice him while one engages in sexual behavior with him, and the others watch and await their opportunity (Green). A religious man and a serious person, Jonathan falls to the evils of sexuality, lusting for the female vampire. Van Helsing similarly meets the three female vampires in the night, but he steadfastly maintains his righteousness. When he meets the vampires, he says, “The mere beauty and the fascination of the wanton un-dead have hypnotised him…. Then the beautiful eyes

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    In Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Lucy Westerna personifies the uncanny through her transformation into an undead, and her subsequent death that follows this transformation. Before she dies and transforms, Lucy is being cared for by Dr. Seward and Dr. Van Helsing, and after her death they notice a change in her complexion and beauty which is to be unexpected. Dr. Seward notes that upon visiting her grave and opening her coffin, “she was, if possible, more radiantly beautiful than ever” (200). Lucys conversion

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    A well developed setting gives a reader a clear intuition on how the characters will behave, but the best developed characters provide unpredictability in terms of how much they defy the expectations assigned to them based on setting. The setting of a novel encaptures many things, ranging from era, climate, and environment. Setting automatically has effect on characters-be it in terms of their physical appearance, emotional maturity, language, or age but the depth of a character oftentimes changes

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    that not even the rest of the men did. She realizes the changes that are happening to her but does not wait to be taken care of by the men. A morning after she realizes that the Count has visited her during the night she tells Jonathan to go call Van Helsing, saying: “ ‘I have an idea. I supposed it must have come in the night, and matured without my knowing it. He must hypnotize me before the dawn, and then I shall be able to speak. Go quick, dearest; the time is getting close’” (Stoker, 289). Mina

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    Inverted Gender Roles: Dracula by Bram Stoker

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    of sexual identity. Suddenly, Lucy is now toothed like the Count, takes the function of penetration reserved for males. After children were returning home with bite marks on their neck being attacked by the “Bloofer Lady”, Dr. Seward and Dr. Van Helsing soon realize that Lucy in truth is the “Bloofer Lady”. One of Lucy’s numerous roles as a Victorian woman was to care for the children, but her role as a Victorian woman is greatly changed in these scenes becoming evident to the reader. After being

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    arrived at Dr. Seward was conversing with Van Helsing shortly after, Van Helsing responded by saying, "Ah, that wonderful Madam Mina! She has man's brain--a brain that a man should have were he much gifted--and a woman's heart.” Van Helsing is implying that a man’s brain is greater than a woman’s brain. He is also saying that all men are smart by referencing a gifted mind as a “man’s brain” not by plainly stating she has an intelligent brain. Additionally, Van Helsing creates another stereotype by his implication

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    be possessed by recognizing their opposing forces. Anne McWhir concludes that the road to purification for Mina requires a blood sacrifice, sanity cannot exist without recognizing madness, and the danger of and dependence on foreigners (Dracula and Van

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