Formalist Lens
Symbols and Imagery
Bite Marks "...and the tiny wounds seem not to have healed. They are still open, and, if anything, larger than before, and the edges of them seem faintly white." -Mina Murray (Stoker 108)
Eyes "He was deathly pale, just like a waxen image, and the red eyes glared with the horrible vindictive look which I knew too well." -Mina Harker (Stoker 398)
"I knew, too, the red scar on his forehead where Jonathan had struck him." -Mina Harker (Stoker 305) "In the midst of my thought my eye fell on the red scar on my poor darling's white forehead." -Jonathan Harker (Stoker 335)
"I tried to kill him for the purpose of strengthening my vital powers by the assimilation with my own body of his life through the medium of his blood - relying of course, upon the Scriptural phrase, "For the blood is life." -Renfield (Stoker 250)
"Instinctively I moved forward holding the crucifix and wafer in my left hand. I felt a mighty power fly along my arm." -Dr. John Seward (Stoker 325)
God vs. the Devil
"Kisses" of the Vampires "Well, now I promise you that when I am done with him you shall kiss him at your will." -Count Dracula (Stoker 45)
"No man knows till he experiences it, what it is to feel his own life-blood drawn away into the veins of the woman he loves." -Dr. John Seward (Stoker 141)
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Red and White
"The waxen face; the high aquiline nose, on which the light fell in a thin white line; the parted red lips, with the sharp white teeth showing between; and the red eyes that I had seemed to see in the sunset on the windows of St Mary's Church at Whitby. I knew, too, the red scar on his forehead where Jonathan had struck him." -Mina Harker (Stoker 305) Vampire Identification
Examples of Irony
Dracula's Self Preservation
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