In what ways does Stoker explore the dichotomy (contrast) between the old and the new in the novel?'
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- In what ways does Stoker explore the dichotomy (contrast) between the old and the new in the novel?'
- Traditional Victorian Woman V.S New Woman
- Mina VS Lucy
- Mina:
- Traditional victorian women
- Motherly
- Intelligent and some what independant
- Stoker uses her toconvey whta women should be like
- Submissive to Harker
- Pure/Innocent
- Family orientated
- Acts like a child when ever frightened
- Archtype of a Victorian woman
- "I shall be useful to Jonathan"
- "Practising short hand"
- Lucy:
- Shallow
- Flirty
- Hyperbolic
- Open about sex(uality)
- social climber
- Permiscouse
- seductive
- Beautiful: 3 suitors
- "Some girls are so vain"
- "It never rains... but pours"
- "Have had three proposals"
- Mina:
- Contex:
- Women weren't sexually assertive
- New Woman seen as flirty, dominant, sinful
- New Woman
- Less inferior to men
- Financially independant
- Self-centred
- Sexualised
- Social climbers
- Extrovert
- Mina VS Lucy
- Locations
- Draculas Castle
- Whitby
- Victorian London
- England is more advanced then Transylvania
- Van Hesling
- A doctor, philosopher, and metaphysician
- modern methods of Western medicine, but with an unparalleled knowledge of superstitions and folk remedies
- Modernity and Technology V.S Olden and Traditional
- Excessive use of science and technology creates contrast between modernity and the old
- Harker describes his trip to Transylvania as being "a trip back in time"
- Blood Transfusions
- Rifles were ineffective to defeat Dracula
- Instead they used primitive weapons such as knives and stakes
- "Unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere modernity cannot kill."- Harker in chapter 2
- "Branch of the wild rose"
- Garlic
- Crucefix
- Holey Wfer
- Ways Characters recorded information
- Mina: type writer
- New
- Seward: phonograph
- New
- Diary's/Journals
- OLD
- Mina: type writer
- Traditional Victorian Woman V.S New Woman
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