Dracula Gender Quotes Page 3
Citations follow this format: (Chapter.Paragraph)
| Quote #7 She is one of God's women, fashioned by His own hand to show us men and other women that there is a heaven where we can enter, and that its light can be here on earth. So true, so sweet, so noble, so little an egoist – and that, let me tell you, is much in this age, so sceptical and selfish. (14.52) |
Van Helsing really thinks highly of Mina, doesn't he? She represents a feminine ideal: she's intelligent, but also submissive and nurturing.
| Quote #8 I suppose there is something in woman's nature that makes a man free to break down before her and express his feelings on the tender or emotional side without feeling it derogatory to his manhood. (17.56) |
Good, manly Englishmen are only allowed to break down and cry in front of a woman. And then only if it's a sweet, nurturing, motherly woman like Mina.
| Quote #9 We women have something of the mother in us that makes us rise above smaller matters when the mother-spirit is invoked. (17.59) |
Mina makes a generalization about all women here – she claims that all women are, somewhere deep down, very nurturing and maternal. They just have to have the right inspiration for that "mother-spirit" to come out.
