Chapter nine details Lucy Westenra's worsening condition, introducing Dr. Van Helsing's cautious approach to revealing the true nature of her illness and the emerging supernatural threat, while also exploring the contemporary medical practices and symbolic meanings surrounding blood.
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to chapter nine and
and
we go straight in following on from the
last chapter where we know that Lucy's
condition is deteriorating. We have a
telegram to begin with opening from Dr.
sewed. And
there's concern there. Actually, that's
that's actually a letter. Sorry, not a
telegram. I thought it looked a bit long
for a telegram. There's a letter there.
And you'll notice this corresponds with
the dates for the last chapter as well.
So, Lucy's condition has gone back a bit
and is expressing his concerns about
Lucy's health there.
And then we have Dr. Seid's diary. So
he's a bit more open about
what actually he was saying in the
letter. You get a bit of self-reference
here to that other document obviously
that Stoke has created. So
have you said have you said anything to
our young friend the lover of her from
Van Housing there? No. I said I waited
till I'd seen you as I said in my
telegram. I wrote him a letter simply
telling him that you were coming as Miss
Western row is not so well and that I
should let him know if need be.
So, not being completely open with the
full extent of how concerned they are
Lucy's health,
then he has um
some thoughts about
so Van Helsing does have some ideas
about what's going on, but he's deliberately
deliberately avoiding
avoiding
saying what it is. So, we have some
circumlication here, which is
deliberately kind of talking around. I
have for myself fortunate or present
later I shall unfold to you and also
that's the stoker creating some suspense
for us in terms of Van Helin's idioelect
notice how when he uses vocative here of
he uses evocative of my friend John he
tends to address that as an affectionate
vocative to his friends my my friend
part of his ide and stoker presents Van
Helsing as he's the foil to Dracula
whereas Dracula is the dangerous, scary
foreigner. You've got Van Helsing here
is the is the friendly, kind, heroic,
So, how hard I did this, it made me
laugh. I did not see the application and
told him so for reply, he reached over
and took my took my ear in his hand and
pulled it playfully as he used as he
used long ago to do at least. Can't
imagine many lectures where you get your
ears pulled. But I think as Stoker is
meant to say, it's the nature of the the
nature of the man. He's an unusual he's
an unusual
master and teacher and expert and
scientist, isn't he? He's not he's not typical.
typical.
He uses this big analogy here about
basically explaining why he's not saying
everything that his ideas yet in this
section here.
And then this was I highlighted this for
the idi as well. You you were only
student then. Now you are master and I
trust a good habit have not fail. So you
see Stoker leaves out words. So he uses
that creates more of the idioct. And
then over the page,
Stoker raises more tension in terms of
Heling's face grew set as marble. His
eyebrows converged till they almost
touched over his nose.
Lucy made lay motionless and did not
seem to have strength to speak. So yeah,
so Stoke is building up the level of
suspense here.
This is ironic line here as well. She
will die for sheer want of blood to keep
the heart's action as it should be.
There must be transfusion of blood at
once. Is it you or me? So
So
blood transfusions, new technology at
the end of the 19th century and they
didn't really know about blood groups.
So they had a big hit and miss success
rate. They would just sometimes think,
oh yeah, this is brilliant. It's working
so well and then let's try it on this
patient. Oh, they died. Oh, and then
eventually they realize about blood
groups, but at this point they didn't.
So, it's another one of these high tech
juxositions with the arcane powers of Dracula,
Dracula,
but she also does need blood. She's
going to need blood when you know what's
coming up. Well, maybe you don't. But
anyway, Arthur also joins them at this
point because he said, "I I read between
the lines of your letter."
So, he could tell that something was up.
Sher, you have come in time. You are the
lover of our dear miss. She is bad.
Very, very bad.
So Arthur has arrived to help out as
well. Tell me and I shall do it. My life
is hers and I would give the last drop
of blood in my body for her. So he is
going to be the donor. There's this
humorous line for Van Hel. My young sir,
I do not ask so much as that. Not the
last. So he's got this kind of dark
humor that Stoker gives him as a character.
She wants blood and blood she must have
or die. And that obviously that's a link
to vampirism as well, but obviously
needs blood as part of the blood
Then we have some sortification. Her
eyes spoke to us. That was all. That's
when Lucy's they go to see Lucy and she's
she's
ill there. He mixed the narcotic and
coming over to the bed said cheerily,
"Now little Mish, here is your medicine.
Drink it off like a good child. See, I
lift you so that you swallow is easy."
Yes, she made the effort with success.
So, giving her some medicine to try and
make her pass out. I haven't got too
much else to say. I mean, there are
other things. I'll just try and cover
the things that jump out to me. Then
Lucy was sleeping gently, but her
breathing was stronger. I could see the
counter pain move as her breast heaved.
By the bedside, sat van helicucular intently.
intently.
This is when they noticed that the marks
on her throat. What do you make of that
mark on her throat? What do you make of
it? I've not examined it yet, I
answered. What have you been doing?
Come on, Dr. Seid.
Van Helig goes back to Amsterdam. I've
said before about most adaptations, Van
Helsig comes in as a know he knows very
quickly that it's a vampire. In the
novel, he has to check he goes back to
Amsterdam and goes back and checks his
books and then comes back and but you
can understand why in films and TV
versions they cut that step out just
because it slows things down basically.
Then we have more from Dr. Sue's diary.
Lucy herself says she's afraid to go to sleep.
sleep.
Afraid to go to sleep. Why so? It's the
boon we all crave for. People don't use
the word boon enough. It's great as in
benefit. Ah, not if you were like me. If
sleep was to you a pre of horror.
Precage of horror. What on earth do you
mean? Well, of course, irony for we know
that Dracula is around and Dracula has
been drinking her blood every night.
A telegram came from Van Helsing at
Amsterdam while I was at dinner
suggesting I should be at Hinningham
tonight as it might be well to be at
hand and stating that he was leaving by
the nightmare would join me early in the
morning. So again, they're going to go back
back
because Van Helsing has presumably
discovered and confirmed his suspicions
about vampirism. go back and attend to Lucy.
And I didn't put too much on this page
actually, but again, you might find
things that you want to talk about
yourself. And
as I passed over, he moved back in his
exclamation of horror. God in him, which
is weird because he's Dutch and that's
German. So that's I think just Stoker
probably putting that in saying it
sounds foreign and maybe no one will notice.
even the lips were whiter, the gums seem
to have shrunken back from the teeth as
we sometimes see in a corpse after a
prolonged illness.
So again, this is just foreshadowing
becoming a vampire.
It's not too late. It beats though
feebly. All our work is undone. We must
begin again. There is no young Arthur
here now. I have to call on you yourself
this time, friend John. So more donating
of blood.
And then this to another kind of
contextual point here because if our
young lover should turn up unexpected as
before, no word to him, it would have
once frightened him and in jealous him
too. There must be none. So, so what
this is is this comes from
really like a historic
thinking about how blood works and the
what blood actually is and what it means
and the spirituality connected to blood
and the idea of Arthur is engaged to
Lucy and when they get married they kind
of become in the eyes of the church, in
the eyes of God, in the idea of the
culture of the time would be that they
are of one body effectively. So the
mixing of blood it's there's actually a
kind of indirect kind of sexual
connotation because this would be their
relationship would be again I've got to
remember this on YouTube consummated on
their wedding night and so anyway look
you know I'm sure you can work
everything out you can put the pieces
together as it as it were and
so that's why Arthur would be possibly
jealous because blood transfusions is a
new a new thing and and in the Bible it
can be interpreted as saying that that
shouldn't be done in that way which is
Jehovah's Witnesses interpret the Bible
like that um you know you know to this
day and there other religions obviously
there's lots of cultural symbolism
connected to blood so you can see the
kind of the kind of cultural DNA of
where this idea has come from
and it adds again a level of suspense,
but it also there's a there's a thing
here because obviously Dr. Seard also
proposed to Lucy as well. So they're all
being connected these men al together
kind of through Lucy effectively as
their blood is going into her. There's
an irony here because the um the mother
says you want a wife to nurse and look
after you bit that you do. As she spoke,
though it was only momentarily for her
poor wasted veins could not stand for
long such an unwanted drain to the head.
Okay, so let's continue. And
And
Van Helsing puts loads of garlic around
Lucy's room.
I put him in your window. Oh, I make
pretty wreath and hang him around your
neck so that you sleep well. Oh yes,
they like the lotus flower. Make your
trouble forgotten. It smells so like the
waters of leather and of that fountain
of youth that the concistador is thought
sought for in the Florida and find them
all too late. So the lotus flower that's
really like thinking about opium and the
waters of leather is the river of the
undead that they would drink, you know,
in for ancient Rome. the idea of the uh
going to the afterlife and in the
underworld, they drink from the river,
the water from the river, and it makes
But it's actually garlic, which of
course we all know,
we all know, I pressed the wrong button
there for a second. We all know is part
of the vampire claw and the mythology of
it as well. But again, it would seem
unusual here. I doubt that the
contemporary readers would really have a
knowledge of of that really.
Van Halo say no trifling with me. I
never jest. There is grim purpose in all
I do and I warn you that you do not
thwart me. So he's always he's serious
about what he does and he actually
alarms Lucy there. So Stoke takes him as
this is definitely this quirky unusual
but you know genius character.
And then we got more efforts to the
garlic smell. and
and
he makes a wreath to go around. This
obviously all designed to ward off
Dracula's attentions.
So that's it really for the chapter.
That's quite a short chapter actually.
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