This symbolism, particularly when coupled with Stoker's use of realism not only acts as a thought-provoking device, but endows his story with a depth rarely found in gothic novels. ... As well as the process of blood transfusion, Mina uses a typewriter, Doctor Seward uses a phonograph for his diary and Jonathan Harker uses photographs during Dracula's purchase of his London estate: "..I have taken with my Kodak views of it from various points." ... Not a week since I said "Finis," and yet here I am starting fresh again.."... There was a deliberate voluptuousness which was both thri...

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