Dracula Good vs Evil Quotes

Unclean, unclean! I must touch him or kiss him no more. Oh, that it should be that it is I who am now his worst enemy.

– Bram Stoker

Dracula, Chapter 21. Mina when she tries to kiss her husband Jonathan and draws away, seeing some of Dracula’s blood on his shirt. She speaks these words just after a vicious attack by the Count, who made her drink his blood. Poor Mina, believing that she is somehow unholy and cursed. But the virtuous Mina has nothing to feel guilty about, she did nothing to attract Dracula’s evil.

She was so good and brave that we all felt that our hearts were strengthened to work and endure for her, and we began to discuss what we were to do.

– Bram Stoker

Dracula, Chapter 22. Jonathan, writing in his journal, about his wife Mina’s determination to survive until Count Dracula’s passing. In a reversal of gender roles, the author gives women like Mina a more dominant role than some of the men, whom he makes submissive. Even after being attacked by Dracula, Mina is looked up to by the men around her and becomes their rallying point around which the vampire hunters gather to fight the evil of the Count.

For so surely as we live, that scar shall pass away when God sees right to lift the burden that is hard upon us…It may be that we are chosen instruments of His good pleasure, and that we ascend to His bidding as that other through stripes and shame; through tears and blood; through doubts and fears, and all that makes the difference between God and man.

– Bram Stoker

Dracula, Chapter 22. Van Helsing reassures Mina after she says she will be forever scarred following her burning by the consecrated Host. He believes that he and his fellow vampire huntets are God’s chosen instruments to end Dracula’s reign of terror and save others from his evil.

And now, my friends, we have a duty here to do. We must sterilize this earth, so sacred of holy memories, that he has brought from a far distant land for such fell use. He has chosen this earth because it has been holy. Thus we defeat him with his own weapon, for we make it more holy still. It was sanctified to such use of man, now we sanctify it to God.

– Bram Stoker

Dracula, Chapter 22. Van Helsing produces the consecrated Eucharistic host to render the boxes of soil at Carfax uninhabitable for Dracula. He uses the power of Christianity to fight the supernatural powers of Dracula. Carfax is the estate just north of London purchased by Dracula, from which he launched his attacks on Lucy, Mina and Renfield.

You think to baffle me, you – with your pale faces all in a row, like sheep in a butcher’s. You shall be sorry yet, each one of you! You think you have left me without a place to rest; but I have more. My revenge is just begun!

– Bram Stoker

Dracula, Chapter 23. Count Dracula snarls at Van Helsing and his crew of vampire hunters that he is far from finished and his evil reign has only begun. They have just purified 49 of his 50 earth-filled coffins but one, and they must find his final one.

Oh, that I could give any idea of the scene. Of that sweet, sweet, good, good woman in all the radiant beauty of her youth and animation, with the red scar on her forehead, of which she was conscious, and which we saw with grinding of our teeth, remembering whence and how it came. Her loving kindness against our grim hate. Her tender faith against all our fears and doubting. And we, knowing that so far as symbols went, she with all her goodness and purity and faith, was outcast from God.

– Bram Stoker

Dracula, Chapter 23. Dr. Seward writes in his diary on how the once good and kind and sweet Mina has been possessed by Count Dracula and was outcast from God.

That poor soul who has wrought all this misery is the saddest case of all. Just think what will be his joy when he, too, is destroyed in his worser part that his better part may have spiritual immortality. You must be pitiful to him, too, though it may not hold your hands from his destruction.

– Bram Stoker

Dracula, Chapter 23. The kindly Mina can even feel pity for a monster like Dracula. She beseeches the others to be pityful to him, saying that there is a soul trapped into this monster which will be relased to spiritual immotarlity when they bring about his destruction.

Thus are we ministers of God’s own wish: that the world, and men for whom His Son die, will not be given over to monsters, whose very existence would defame Him. He have allowed us to redeem one soul already, and we go out as the old knights of the Cross to redeem more. Like them we shall travel towards the sunrise; and like them, if we fall, we fall in good cause.

– Bram Stoker

Dracula, Chapter 24. As Van Helsing’s vampire hunters pursue Count Dracula across Europe to Romania, he explains to Mina the nature of their mission. He paints it as a good vs evil battle, like when the Crusaders travelled east to Jerusalem to reclaim it for the Christians. He believes that they are serving God and it is only religion and Christianity that can prevail over the monsters.

It is really wonderful how much resilience there is in human nature. Let any obstructing cause, no matter what, be removed in any way – even by death – and we fly back to first principles of hope and enjoyment. More than once as we sat around the table, my eyes opened in wonder whether the whole of the past days had not been a dream. It was only when I caught sight of the red blotch on Mrs. Harker’s forehead that I was brought back to reality.

– Bram Stoker

Dracula, Chapter 24. Dr. Seward says this the day after Mina is attacked by Dracula and she has the "unclean" red mark on her forehead. Initially Seward is full of hope and cheerfulness after an early breakfast with the others. But then is pulled back to the reality of the immensity of the battle against their formidable foe, Dracula, by Mina’s mark.

Harker smiled – actually smiled – the dark bitter smile of one who is without hope; but at the same time his action belied his words, for his hands instinctively sought the hilt of the great Kukri knife and rested there.

– Bram Stoker

Dracula, Chapter 25. Jonathan, after hearing that Count Dracula’s ship Czarina Catherine had boarded at Galatz instead of Varna, where the vampire hunters had been waiting for it. Jonathan smiles bitterly at the setback. But the action of his hands seeking out the hilt of his great Kukri knife speaks of the determination to hunt down Dracula. This is forecasting how Jonathan will later in the story cut the evil Count’s head off with that same knife.

Have you seen that awful den of hellish infamy – with the very moonlight alive with grisly shapes, and every speck of dust that whirls in the wind a devouring monster in embryo? Have you felt the Vampire’s lips upon your throat?…Oh, my God, what have we done to have this terror upon us.

– Bram Stoker

Dracula, Chapter 26. Jonathan objects to Van Helsing’s plan to bring Mina with them in their bid to defeat and destroy Dracula. He is one of the few people who has seen the inside of Castle Dracula, where he was held prisoner. He tries to convey his anguish and terror the place holds to Van Helsing. He also asks God what sins have they have committed to bring the terrible evil of Dracula on them.

We are truly in the hands of God. He alone knows what may be, and I pray Him, with all the strength of my sad and humble soul, that He will watch over my beloved husband; that whatever may happen, Jonathan may know that I loved him and honoured him more than I can say, and that my latest and truest thought will be always for him.

– Bram Stoker

Dracula, Chapter 26. Even in the face of the devilish Dracula’s attacks on her, Mina maintains her Christian faith. She believes they are in God’s hands and prays that He will watch over and project her husband Jonathan.

Then began my terrible task, and, I dread it. Had it been but one, it had been easy, comparative. But three! To begin twice more after I had been through a deed of horror; for if it was terrible with the sweet Miss Lucy, what would it not be with these strange ones who had survived through the centuries, and who had been strengthened by the passing of the years; who would, if they could, have fought for their foul lives.

– Bram Stoker

Dracula, Chapter 27. Vampire killer Van Helsing feels the weight of what he has to do on his shoulders: kill Dracula’s three Brides and put an end to their evil in the world. As he is about to destroy them, he remembers how terrible it was ending Lucy’s undead state.
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