Imagery
With a careless motion, she flung to the ground, callous as a devil, the child that up to now she had clutched strenuously to her breast, growling over it as a dog growls over a bone. The child gave a sharp cry, and lay there moaning. (16.19)
Mina is comparing Lucy before and after her vampire transformation. She refers to her as a child, but after her transformation, she refers to her as a devil or an animal.
There was something about them that made me uneasy, some longing and at the same time some deadly fear. I felt in my heart a wicked, burning desire that they would kiss me with those red lips. It is not good to note this down, lest some day it should meet Mina's eyes and cause her pain; but it is the truth. (3.29)...The fair girl went on her knees, and bent over me, fairly gloating. There was a deliberate voluptuousness which was both thrilling and repulsive, and as she arched her neck she actually licked her lips like an animal, till I could see in the moonlight the moisture shining on the scarlet lips and on the red tongue as it lapped the white sharp teeth. (3.32)
This quote is referring to Harker's experience with the Sisters. Here, one can see the repressed sexual desires emerging aggressively. Harker's repressed desires emerge when he sees voluptuous women making sexual advances at him. This is due to the fact that during the Victorian era, women were not suppose to make sexual advances towards men, because it will perceive them as promiscuous. The vampire's kisses represent the reverse of traditional Victorian dynamics. The female vampire is the dominant character, whereas Harker is the submissive character.
Arthur placed the point over the heart, and as I looked I could see its dint in the white flesh. Then he struck with all his might. The Thing in the coffin writhed; and a hideous, blood-curdling screech came from the opened red lips. The body shook and quivered and twisted in wild contortions; the sharp white teeth champed together till the lips were cut, and the mouth was smeared with a crimson foam. But Arthur never faltered […] as his untrembling arm rose and fell, driving deeper and deeper the mercy-bearing stake. (16.44-45)
This quote is describing the death of vampire Lucy. The author uses imagery to describe Lucy's death, because he want the reader to feel the death of evil and the painful death that Lucy endured.
...masses of sea-fog came drifting inland – white, wet clouds, which swept by in ghostly fashion, so dank and cold that it needed but little effort of imagination to think that the spirits of those lost at sea were touching their living brethren with the clammy hands of death...(7.3)
Stoker uses imagery to set the mood and atmosphere for this particular scene. In this scene, even though no one knows that the sea is being controlled by Dracula, the journalist feels that something is no quite right in terms of the fog. This is to create suspension in this chapter.
Mina is comparing Lucy before and after her vampire transformation. She refers to her as a child, but after her transformation, she refers to her as a devil or an animal.
There was something about them that made me uneasy, some longing and at the same time some deadly fear. I felt in my heart a wicked, burning desire that they would kiss me with those red lips. It is not good to note this down, lest some day it should meet Mina's eyes and cause her pain; but it is the truth. (3.29)...The fair girl went on her knees, and bent over me, fairly gloating. There was a deliberate voluptuousness which was both thrilling and repulsive, and as she arched her neck she actually licked her lips like an animal, till I could see in the moonlight the moisture shining on the scarlet lips and on the red tongue as it lapped the white sharp teeth. (3.32)
This quote is referring to Harker's experience with the Sisters. Here, one can see the repressed sexual desires emerging aggressively. Harker's repressed desires emerge when he sees voluptuous women making sexual advances at him. This is due to the fact that during the Victorian era, women were not suppose to make sexual advances towards men, because it will perceive them as promiscuous. The vampire's kisses represent the reverse of traditional Victorian dynamics. The female vampire is the dominant character, whereas Harker is the submissive character.
Arthur placed the point over the heart, and as I looked I could see its dint in the white flesh. Then he struck with all his might. The Thing in the coffin writhed; and a hideous, blood-curdling screech came from the opened red lips. The body shook and quivered and twisted in wild contortions; the sharp white teeth champed together till the lips were cut, and the mouth was smeared with a crimson foam. But Arthur never faltered […] as his untrembling arm rose and fell, driving deeper and deeper the mercy-bearing stake. (16.44-45)
This quote is describing the death of vampire Lucy. The author uses imagery to describe Lucy's death, because he want the reader to feel the death of evil and the painful death that Lucy endured.
...masses of sea-fog came drifting inland – white, wet clouds, which swept by in ghostly fashion, so dank and cold that it needed but little effort of imagination to think that the spirits of those lost at sea were touching their living brethren with the clammy hands of death...(7.3)
Stoker uses imagery to set the mood and atmosphere for this particular scene. In this scene, even though no one knows that the sea is being controlled by Dracula, the journalist feels that something is no quite right in terms of the fog. This is to create suspension in this chapter.