Jonathan

Question 1

‘All things evil in the world will have their sway’

Answer 1

• native woman warns Jonathan about the evil of Transylvania - he finds their warnings ‘ridiculous’ and does not pay attention to what they have to say - he becomes naive as a result of his western pride + false sense of superiority

Question 2

‘His hands touched me, I could not repress a shudder’

Answer 2

• interaction between Jonathan and Dracula - emasculates Jonathan

Question 3

‘I fear I think strange things which I dare not confess to my own soul’

Answer 3

• chapter 2
• implied homosexuality - but also how Jonathan’s confidence declines as a result of Dracula’s presence

Question 4

‘This castle is a veritable prison and I am a prisoner’

Answer 4

• realisation Dracula has entrapped him - but could also allude to how Jonathan feels stuck in his homosexual thoughts

Question 5

‘I behaved much as a rat does in a trap’

Answer 5

• damsel in distress - hysterical + manic = feminises him

Question 6

‘Some longing and some deadly fear’

Answer 6

• Jonathan’s reactions to the vampire brides

Question 7

‘Ruby of their voluptuous lips’
‘She licked her lips like an animal’

Answer 7

• Jonathan description of the vampire brides

Question 8

‘I felt in my heart a wicked burning desire’

Answer 8

• Jonathan’s reaction to the vampire brides

Question 9

‘The horror overcame me, and I sank down unconscious’

Answer 9

• after Dracula storms in and chases the vampire brides away
• Jonathan becomes an emotional wreck

Question 10

‘The count must have carried me here and undressed me’

Answer 10

• chapter 4

Question 11

‘I wish they would kiss me with those red lips’

Answer 11

• links to forbidden desires - Jonathan is engaged to Mina, but the corruptive nature of the count’s castle is so strong that he jeopardises his morals for a tantalising experience with the monstrous women
• vampiric + most likely prostitutes - victorians believed in the spermatic economic theory that blood and sperm are intricately linked - their implied desire for his blood could therefore be interepreted as their desire to have sex with Jonathan

Question 12

‘My soul was struggling […] I was becoming hypnotised!’
‘I simply sat down and cried’

Answer 12

• chapter 4 - the count is playing mind tricks with Jonathan - he steals his clothes + makes his psyche unstable

Question 13

‘A terrible desire came over me to rid the world of such a monster’

Answer 13

• Jonathan begins to gain agency again upon his escape from the castle