... ' and 'burning'. Stoker also employs juxtaposing colour imagery, initially with 'white teeth'; a colour often associated with the motif of innocence and purity, against 'ruby... burning... red' which are common symbols of lust, warning and foreshadowed death. This runs parallel with Sarah Peter's critique of Dracula, who states that 'the most significant reason for the omission of the religious and superstitious ... works of authors such as Chaucer through to Walpole. Perhaps the earliest depiction can be seen in Chaucer's The Pardoner's Tale, 'an exemplum illustrating not so m...

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