Dracula pg 31

"but I am not in heart to describe beauty, for when I had seen the view I explored further; doors, doors, doors everywhere, and all locked and bolted. In no place save from the windows in the castle walls is there an available exit.
The castle is a veritable prison, and I am a prisoner!"

The author's tone of this piece is very frantic. He is in a state of panick by what he has just discovered. The author uses the repition of doors to create the image of having all these ways out, yet none of them will let you. It gives you that feeling of hope but there is no way out. Also by using the semi colon it connects the previous part of the sentence to it. He has explored as much as there is, and all there seems to be are doors that are locked. There is no way out of this castle. When he says that the castle is a veritable prison, he is shocked. He would have never guessed that he would be locked in there. He is more shocked that he let himself get into this position. The way the author uses the grammer helps to convey the feeling of panick that the character is in. The punctuation gives real meaning to what he is saying and gives the feeling to the reader.