Dracula. Chapter 8
Mina's Journal
Note: pay attention to how the women are portrayed and use of setting.
"I believe we should have shocked the "New Women" with our appetites" - Mina starts by mocking teh New Woman... creating the interesting question: To what degree does she become a New Woman during the text?
"the silver light of the moon (earlier "sharp as a sword") struck a half-reclining figure, snowy white" = Lucy.
"Something dark" stood behind her and then bent over.
"The town seemed dead" and there was "not a sign of a living thing." (p101).
Lucy then rose "with the obedience of a child."
They got home without "meeting a soul"
The scar on her neck... (p103)
Days and nights pass, with Lucy trying to escape the room at night... and with her leaning out of the window and attracting the attention of "a great bat" (p104).
Seeing the dark stranger with "flaming red eyes..."
Lucy's mother is dying and must be protected from bad news.
Mina stares at the red dots on Lucy's neck.
Task: Find key quotes/themes for each of these sections
Lucy describes her dreams p108-109, and talks of the (dead) Mr Swales.
Dr Seward notes changes in Renfield p110-111
Homework:
ReRead Chapters 9-11
Quick 15 minute reading test on whole novel next week (5points Pronote)
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