72 pages 2 hours read

Bram Stoker

Dracula

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1897

A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. For select classroom titles, we also provide Teaching Guides with discussion and quiz questions to prompt student engagement.

Important Quotes

Quotation Mark Icon

“But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one; men know him not—and to know not is to care not for. I am content if I am like the rest, so that no man stops if he see me, or pause in his speaking if he hear my words, to say, “Ha, ha! a stranger!” 


(Chapter 2, Page 21)

Dracula foreshadows his plans to move to London and some of his motivations for learning English so well. He wants to be able to blend in, so that no one can mistake him for a stranger. His eventual crimes would cast suspicion on outsiders or newcomers first, and he wants to remove that possibility.

Quotation Mark Icon

“There is a reason why all things are as they are.”


(Chapter 2, Page 22)

Dracula tells Jonathan not to try the locked doors in the castle, but his statement foreshadows his ability to plan meticulously. Dracula’s move to London requires great resources, coordination, and audacity. He believes in the predestination of his own success, and will model his takeover of London similarly to the control he exerts over his castle.

Quotation Mark Icon

“Despair has its own calms.” 


(Chapter 4, Page 45)

Jonathan sleeps after the Count tells him to make the letters. He is beginning to accept his fate; he is trapped. He counts on his dreams to find peace. This foreshadows the importance of dreams to other characters, later in the novel. Their dreams are nightmarish, and they often confuse dreams with reality.