"Powers of Their Own Which Mere 'Modernity' Cannot Kill": The Doppelgänger and Temporal Modernist Terror in Dracula
‘Powers of Their Own Which Mere “Modernity” Cannot Kill’: The Doppelgänger and Temporal Modernist Terror in Dracula Whitney S. May, Texas State University Abstract: Of the many haunting figures that Gothic fiction invokes, none so perfectly encapsulates the mode itself, in all its fantastic incursions of opposing forces and clashing sensibilities, as the doppelgänger. Indeed, this figure in Gothic literature helps to push the bounds of subjective tension so central to the genre. This article examines Bram Stoker’s Dracula () as an entry into the canon of doppelgänger fiction by complicating traditional readings of the central relationship between Count Dracula and Jonathan Harker. By revisiting the novel within the framework of a doppelgänger narrative, this article suggests that part of the real terror for Stoker’s fin-de-siècle audience lies in the novel’s timing. Located in the gap between the retreating Romantic and advancing high modern epochs, the novel dramatizes the apprehensions of a culture experiencing enormous technological and social
Bram Stoker Quotes
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“Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some people see things that others cannot? But there are things old and new which must not be contemplate by men´s eyes, because they know -or think they know- some things which other men have told them. Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.”
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“For life be, after all, only a waitin’ for somethin’ else than what we’re doin’; and death be all that we can rightly depend on.”
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“It is a strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes, and troubles. And yet when King Laugh come, he make them all dance to the tune he play. Bleeding hearts, and dry bones of the churchyard, and tears that burn as they fall, all dance together to the music that he make with that smileless mouth of him. Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us different ways. Then tears come, and like the rain on the ropes, they brace us up, until perhaps the strain become too great, and we break. But King Laugh he come like the sunshine, and he ease of
Dracula Quotes
Quotes or quotations are phrases, sentences, lines, and paragraphs taken from a literary piece. These quotes express universal truths or situations. Bram Stoker’s Dracula, too, has famous quotes given for different situations. Some of the best quotes from Dracula are analyzed below.
Quotes in Dracula
Quote #1
“It is odd that a thing which I have been taught to regard with disfavour and as idolatrous should in a time of loneliness and trouble be of help.”
Chapter 3
These lines are spoken by Jonathan Harker, who is thinking about why the crucifix that the landlady gave him is providing him comfort. He is not aware of the fact that actually it is providing him protection against Dracula. He is thinking that it may help him in his loneliness, or when he is in trouble when Dracula is to come.
Quote #2
“There was something about them that made me uneasy, some longing and at the same time some deadly fear.”
Chapter 3
Jonathan Harker speaks this line when he thinks about vampire women. He thinks that inwardly he is not satisfied with them as he feels uneasy as well as fearful, yet he longs to have sexual relations with them. This conflictual thinking of Hark
“There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights.”
― Bram Stoker, quote from Dracula
“We learn from failure, not from success!”
― Bram Stoker, quote from Dracula
“Once againwelcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring.”
― Bram Stoker, quote from Dracula
“I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.”
― Bram Stoker, quote from Dracula
“There is a reason why all things are as they are.”
― Bram Stoker, quote from Dracula
“I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul.”
― Bram Stoker, quote from Dracula
“Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker”
― Bram Stoker, quote from Dracula
“I want you to believeto believe in things that you cannot.”
― Bram Stoker, quote from Dracula
“Oh, the terrible struggle that I have had against sleep so often of late; the pain of the sleeplessness, or the pain of the fear of sleep, and with such unknown horror as it has for me!
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