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"
      • 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
    • 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

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