Wafer: In Dracula the Wafer, also known as the holy cookie of the church represents a safety cushion for the group. When Van Helsing takes Quincy, Seward, and Arthur go to Lucy’s Grave they notice its empty and in order to keep her from reentering he decides to place the chunks of Wafers into the coffin in order for her to not reenter. Here Van Helsing uses the wafer for the first time in the novel, and it shows a weakness Vampires have towards materials of Church, since Lucy could not get back into the coffin unless he removed the wafers so it proved that they had something that could help them from getting hurt. Later in the novel after Mina is bitten, the effects of the wafer are seen even though she has just been “tainted” by Dracula
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Dracula is written during the Victorian Era, and some of the ideals the people had dealt with included not accepting foreigners who did not share similar ideals to them, excluding those people from their society. In Dracula this evidence is found when they seem to accept Quincy an American who’s seen and can be portrayed as barbaric, and Van Helsing a man from Scotland who uses ideas from the past and present to help him. They do not fear them but Dracula who does not share similar ideas to them makes them freak out. His nature and how he’s portrayed “very strong face, high bridges of thin nose, arched nostrils, domed forehead, pale and sharp teeth”( Stoker 19) Here it’s not more of fearing him, but more of feeling uncomfortable with someone who does not resemble their society. Another point that Stoker makes in them fearing Dracula is made by Van Helsing in his motivational Speech “Life is nothings, I heed him not. But to fail here, is not mere life or death. It is that we become as him, that we henceforward become foul things of the night like him, without heart or conscious.” (Stoker 221) Here it’s clearly seen they see the transformation to a vampire as evil and it’s not right. The thought of someone else taking over and changing the ideals to something they do not believe in is horrendous. It contributes to the novel, because we can see how racist they really where to foreigners and how they portrayed them and wanted nothing to do with
Dracula is written during the Victorian Era, and some of the ideals the people had dealt with included not accepting foreigners who did not share similar ideals to them, excluding those people from their society. In Dracula this evidence is found when they seem to accept Quincy an American who’s seen and can be portrayed as barbaric, and Van Helsing a man from Scotland who uses ideas from the past and present to help him. They do not fear them but Dracula who does not share similar ideas to them makes them freak out. His nature and how he’s portrayed “very strong face, high bridges of thin nose, arched nostrils, domed forehead, pale and sharp teeth”( Stoker 19) Here it’s not more of fearing him, but more of feeling uncomfortable with someone who does not resemble their society. Another point that Stoker makes in them fearing Dracula is made by Van Helsing in his motivational Speech “Life is nothings, I heed him not. But to fail here, is not mere life or death. It is that we become as him, that we henceforward become foul things of the night like him, without heart or conscious.” (Stoker 221) Here it’s clearly seen they see the transformation to a vampire as evil and it’s not right. The thought of someone else taking over and changing the ideals to something they do not believe in is horrendous. It contributes to the novel, because we can see how racist they really where to foreigners and how they portrayed them and wanted nothing to do with