In Foster’s essay on psychoanalytic criticism I thought the quote “They don’t realize we’re bringing them the plague” by Freud was interesting. I thought that this represented the story of Dracula perfectly in more ways than one. Firstly the obvious and a topic that we previously discussed, Dracula is “invading” London and infecting the population. I like how this quote applies to the story because at the beginning Jonathan and his employer are so insistent in helping Dracula with his acquisition, and move to London. It is only till it is too late do they realize what sort of trouble they created.
The other way this quote can be interpreted according to the novel, is they topics touched in the novel, the hidden desires that come through the book in the characters. Being that the time period is still during Victorian times, the topic of sex is somewhat taboo, and obviously a big deal. I think that the quote (above) definitely represents the novel as the ideas of the novel spread like a plague amongst the readers.
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The quote "They don't realize we're bringing with them the plague"(484) refers not only to the plague that Dracula represents by his denigrating the bloodline but also represents the plague that will ensue with the sexualized woman. After biting the women Dracula seems to have sexualized them to the point where women make advances towards the men. We see this in the case of the three female vampires who seduce Jonathan and also with Lucy when she says to Arthur, "My arms are hungry for you"(219). This sexualized woman represents a plague to the recently rigidly Victorian England which is embodied in the character of Dracula and his effect on the women.
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