Blood as Symbol

From Dracula by Bram Stoker
Blood signifies life, lineage, contagion, sexuality, and communion throughout the novel.
Chapter 11

Renfield's repeated cry, 'The blood is the life! The blood is the life!' - quoting Deuteronomy and inverting Christian communion.

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Chapter 3

Dracula on heredity: 'we Szekelys have a right to be proud, for in our veins flows the blood of many brave races' - blood as ancestry and identity.

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