Chapter 1 Quotes Flashcards
Jonathon about Budapest
‘The impression I had was that we were leaving the West and …
entering the East.’
East v West. Budapest is the last outpost of the West
‘I had visited the British Museum, and made search among the books and maps in the …
library regarding Transylvania.’
He doesn’t really understand anything.
About Transylvania
‘One of the wildest and least known…
portions of Europe.’
‘I read that every known superstition in the world is gathered into the horseshoe of the Carpathians, as if it were the centre of some …
imaginative whirlpool.’
‘the further East you go the more unpunctual are the …
trains.’
West looks down upon the East. Immigration link
Inn woman to Jonathon
‘It is the eve of St George’s day. Do you not know that tonight, when the clock strikes midnight, all the evil things in the world will …
have full sway.’
Warning him
Inn woman
‘Taking a crucifix from her neck…
offered it to me.’
He is in danger
Things given to him by peasants on the coach
‘the sign of the cross and the guard against the …
evil eye.’
About the coachman aka Dracula
‘gleam of a pair of very bright eyes, which seemed …
red in the lamplight.’
Jonathon attempts to justify the supernatural through science at this point
About Coachman aka Dracula
‘the lamplight fell on a hard-looking mouth, with very red lips and sharp looking teeth as…
white as ivory.’
A poetry line whispered to Jonathon of the coach
‘For the dead travel…
fast.’
About coachman aka Dracula
‘With a hand which caught my arm in a grip of steel, his strength must have been..
prodigious.’
‘It seemed to me that we were going over the same…
ground again.’
‘The baying of wolves sounded nearer and nearer, as though they were closing round…
on us from every side.’
‘faint flickering blue…
flame.’
