DRACULA QUOTES Flashcards

Question

‘...his eyes flamed red...'

Answer 1

‘...his eyes flamed red with devilish passion, the great nostrils of the aquiline nose opened wide and quivered at the edge; and the sharp white teeth, behind the full lips of the blood-dripping mouth, champed together like those of a wild beast’ - lips red + full of blood = what happens when sexually aroused + nostrils quivering = what happens when an animal smells something it likes – in this case it is blood – antisemitic description Parallel to the monster when kills William – a grin -> focus on Dracula's appearance – doesn't fit in – antisemitic -darwinian de-evolution

Answer 2

‘a horrible sort of snarl passed over his face, showing the eye-teeth long and pointed, but the evil smile as quickly passed into a cold stare of lion-like distain’ - described here as very animalistic in both his movement and appearance – more animal than human

Answer 3

‘It would be impossible to describe the expression of hate and baffled malignity – of anger and hellish rage – which came over the count’s face. - lots and lots of red – anger/hell/passion - yellow skin – like the monster -> Marxist gaze = the foreigner. Contrast between white + red. Miltonic expression – fall of Satan from heaven

Answer 4

“But the Count! Never did I imagine such wrath and fury, even to the demons of the pit. His eyes were positively blazing. The red light in them was lurid, as if the flames of hell fire blazed behind them.

Answer 5

‘I trust you will find all as you wish. When you are ready come into the other room, where you will find your super prepared’

Answer 6

'in our veins flows the blood of many brave races…who was it but one of my own race who beat the Turk on his own ground…was it not this Dracula indeed!'

Answer 7

‘Everything had been carefully thought out, and done systematically and with precision.

Answer 8

‘’He must, indeed, have been that Voivode Dracula who won his name against the Turk.... was he no common man... he was spoken of as the cleverest and the most cunning, as well as the bravest of the sons of ‘the land beyond the forest’

Answer 9

‘Soldier, statesman, and alchemist.... He had a mighy brain, a learning beyond compare, and a heart that knew no fear and no remorse

Answer 10

‘The waves rose in growing fury, each overtopping its fellow, till in a few minutes the lately glassy sea was like a roaring and devouring monster’ - has the power to control the elements like God

Answer 11

‘The vampire can live on, and cannot die by the mere passing of the time; he can flourish when he can fatten on the blood of the living’ - Gods intentions for human mortality are opposed

Answer 12

‘... this evil thing is rooted deep in all good; in soil barren of holy memories it cannot rest’

Answer 13

‘it (the smell) was composed of all the ills or mortality and with the pungent, acrid smell of blood

Answer 14

‘And you, their best beloved one, are now to me, flesh of my flesh, blood of my blood, kin of my kin’ - mockery of the bible

Answer 15

‘Your girls that you love are mine already; and through them you and others shall yet be mine'

Answer 16

‘…we are about to perform what we call a transfusion of blood- to transfer from full veins which pine for him’ - Could be an allusion to transubstantiation and need for Christ’s blood for one’s betterment.

Answer 17

‘she wants blood, and blood she must have or die’ ‘...the full lips of the blood-dripping mouth, champed together like those of a wild beast' ‘He had been taking the life out of her’ ‘As the transfusion went on something like life seemed to come back to poor Lucy’s cheeks'

Answer 18

‘....we could see that the lips were crimson with fresh blood, and that the stream had trickled over her chin and stained the purity of her lawn death-robe'

Answer 19

‘Perhaps I may gain more knowledge out of the folly of a madman than I shall from the teaching of the most wise’

Answer 20

‘The professors' actions were certainly odd, and not to be found in any pharmacopoeia that i ever heard of' - foreigners not as advanced/developed therefore not using proper medical techniques

Answer 21

I want to cut off her head and take out her heart’

Answer 22

‘He must have been right, for I feel comfort from them already’

Answer 23

The poise of the head strikes one at one as indicative of thought and power....big bushy eyebrows come down...the forehead is broad and fine' -

Answer 24

Lombroso's theory of anthropological criminology essentially stated that criminality was inherited, and that someone "born criminal" could be identified by physical (congenital) defects, which confirmed a criminal as savage or atavistic. - facial features = devolved - antisemitic undertones - His research into the bodily characteristics of soldiers and asylum inmates became the foundation of his work on criminal anthropology

Answer 25

Criminal man

Answer 26

‘Your wit is bold; but you are too prejudiced. You do not let your eyes see nor let your ears hear, and that which is outside your daily life is not of account to you’ - to see beyond the shadows was Platos philosophy. Van Helsing almost takes on this philosophy, that the earth cannot be seen truly unless you force yourself to see.

Answer 27

‘We find him even if we have to follow him to the jaws of Hell’ - the Crusader + hero

Answer 28

‘I sometimes think we must be all mad and that we shall wake to sanity in strait-waistcoats’ -- Fears the unknown and struggles to accept the supernatural elements invading society. Relies on science and has not ventured beyond into the unnatural.

Answer 29

"I think, sir, his back is broken. See, both his right arm and leg and the whole side of his face are paralysed." - He has a bloody and painful death – fitting punishment for his treachery

Answer 30

he was more like a wild beast than a man I never saw lunatic in such paroxysm of rage before under hope I shall not again

Answer 31

‘Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes them mad’

Answer 32

‘.... I tried to kill him (Dr Seward) for the purpose of strengthening my vital powers’

Answer 33

'my own pet lunatic, the most pronounced of his type that I had ever met with, talking elemental philosophy, and with the manner of a polished gentleman'

Answer 34

‘Mr Morris, who has sunk to the ground, leaned on his elbow holding his hand pressed to his side; the blood still gushed through his fingers….”It was worth this to die!”…And to our bitter grief, with a smile and in silence, he died a gallant gentleman.’

Answer 35

‘She was ghastly, chalkily pale; the red seemed to have gone even from her lips and gums and the bones of her face stood out prominently’

Answer 36

‘The things in the coffin writhed; and a hideous, blood curdling screech came from the opened red lips, the body shook and quivered and twisted in wild contortion; the sharp white teeth champed together till the lips were cut – lucy has become very animalistic – seems to have lost all control over her body - sexual

Answer 37

‘All Lucys’ loveliness had come back to her in death’

Answer 38

‘With a careless motion, she flung to the ground, callous as a devil, the child that up to now she had clutched strenuously to her breast, growling over it as a dog growls over a bone’ - anti-maternal – would have been repulsive -> womans purpose in Victorian era was to have children – disregard for this role = degrading/dehumanising (also through treatment of the child) - an obscenity .

Answer 39

'The sweetness was turned to adamantine, heartless cruelty, and the purity to voluptuous wantonness’

Answer 40

‘Lying like Ophelia in the play, with ‘virgin cranes and maiden strewments’ - in death lucy has become the female victimized figure of Ophelia

Answer 41

‘...Lucy as we had seen her in life, with her face of unequalled sweetness and purity’ - obsession with purity – want the women to themselves – not under control of the foreigner – will go so far as to mutilate her dead body to ensure this - objectified in death

Answer 42

– delights in a romantic view of the world – sacrificial lamb - not intelligent enough to see the danger in the world --> why she is killed off? - cannot be a 'man' like Mina - no place for Lucy in a new world - women like her will not survive in it

Answer 43

‘He looked like a figure of Thor as his untrembling arm rose and fell, driving deeper and deeper the mercy-bearing stake, whilst the blood from the pierced heart welled and spurted up around it.

Answer 44

‘You need not snub that so charming nose, or I shall point out to my friend Arthur what woes he may have to endure in seeing so much beauty that he so loves so much distort’

Answer 45

‘What an awful thing if that man, that monster, be really in London’

Answer 46

‘Brave men have killed their wives and womankind, to keep them from falling into the hands of the enemy’ - would rather kill Mina than have her owned by the foreigner/other

Answer 47

‘The count’s child-thought see nothing; therefore, he speak so free’ - saying that the count (foreigner) is like a child in his ways – stupid + ignorant – makes the same mistakes over and over like a child – not as developed/mature/advanced intellectually as the English

Answer 48

‘The castle stood as before, reared high above a waste of desolation’

Answer 49

It is a lovely country; full of beauties of all imaginable kinds, and the people are brave, and strong

Answer 50

‘The great drops of sweat sprang from his forehead, and his breath came in broken gasps’ - after killing Lucy

Answer 51

On the bed beside the window lay Jonathan Harker, his face flushed, and breathing heavily as though in a stupor’

Answer 52

she arched her neck; she actually licked her lips like an animal…I

Answer 53

his right hand gripped her by the back of the neck, forcing her face down on his bosom’

Answer 54

...Van Helsing sprang forward and held between them his little golden crucifix. She recoiled from it, with a suddenly distorted face, full of rage’ - rejection of the crucifix + God – satanic + obscene in an era when religion was so highly regarded

Answer 55

'Then there was the sound of rattling chains and clanking of massive bolts being drawn back…’

Answer 56

‘The table service is of gold and so beautifully wrought that it must be of immense value. ‘The castle is a veritable prison and I am a prisoner.’

Answer 57

‘a vast ruined castle, from whose tall black windows came no ray of light, and whose broken battlements showed a jagged line against the sky’ - crumbling aristocracy - ‘ruined castle’ -> castle = male bastions of power

Answer 58

‘We saw it in all its grandeur, perched a thousand feet on the summit of a sheer precipice

Answer 59

‘Before us lay a green sloping land full of forests and woods…which here and there ran down the hillside like tongues of flames

Answer 60

‘Windows were encrusted With dust an the shutters Were up’ - house has become squalid under Draculas control - also use the carfax quote

Answer 61

‘...the flowers hung lank and dead, their whites turning to rust' - decay and death

Answer 62

‘The country gets wilder as we go, and that great spurs of the Carpathians... now seem to gather around us and tower Infront’ - sublime power

Answer 63

“Lashed to the helm was a corpse

Answer 64

'We saw it in all its grandeur, perched a thousand feet on the summit of a precipice..there was something wild and uncanny about the place'

Answer 65

'All three had brilliant white teeth that shone like pearls against the ruby of their voluptuous lips…I felt in my heart a wicked burning desire that they would kiss me with those red lips.’

Answer 66

'two were dark and had high aquiline noses…great piercing eyes…the other was fair with great masses of golden hair....’

Answer 67

‘I knew the swaying round forms, the bright hard eyes, the white teeth, the ruddy colour, the voluptuous lips’

Answer 68

'so radiantly beautiful, so exquisitely voluptuous, that the very instinct of man in me, which calls some of my sex to love and protect one of her, made my head swirl with new emotion

Answer 69

‘...how beautiful she was. Every hour seemed to be enhancing her loveliness’

Answer 70

‘...Lucys’ eyes unclean and full of hellfire, instead of the pure, gentle orbs we knew’ + ‘...her eyes blazed with unholy light’ - again, vampiric curse takes the innocence – corrupts sexually – idea of damnation (for being sexual as a woman) - ‘hellfire’ --> rebellion against God + blasphemy

Answer 71

‘...she (Lucy) drew back with an angry snarl, such as a cat gives when taken unawares’

Answer 72

I shrieked as I saw it shear through the throat; whilst at the same moment Mr Morris’s bowie knife plunged into the heart…there was in the face a look of peace.’

DRACULA QUOTES Flashcards

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