Chapter 10 Quotes Flashcards
Dr Seward about Lucy
‘She was ghastly pale; the red seemed to have gone even from her lips and gums, and the bones on her face…
stood out prominently.’
the red of youth is gone, she is v ill and looks almost ghost like, fading away
Van Helsing to Dr Seward
‘There must be a transfusion of blood at once, Is it you or me?’
‘I am stronger and younger, Professor. It must be me.’
blood transfusions actually weren’t invented at this point, so advances in medicine clear here
Arthur
‘My life is hers, and I would give the last drop of blood in my …
body for her.’
So noble so brave.
Van Helsing
‘she wants blood and blood she must have or …
die.’
her need for blood transfusions foreshadows her need for blood as a vampire.
Dr Seward
‘as the transfusion went on something like life seemed to come back to poor Lucy’s cheeks, and through Arthur’s growing pallour the joy of his face seemed…
absolutely to shine.’
he is drained for her romantic. perhaps representative of sex. Lucy has three blood transfusions, does she want three sexual partners.’
Dr Seward
‘It at once occurred to me that this wound or whatever it was, might be the means of that manifest loss of blood; but I abandoned the idea as soon as formed , …
for such a thing could not be.’
he cannot rationalise this supernatural phenomenon, so casts his ideas aside
Dr Seward
‘there on the bed, seemingly in a swoon lay poor Lucy, more horribly white and wan-looking than ever. Even the lips were white, and the gums seemed to have shrunken back …
from the teeth, as we sometimes see in a corpse after a prolonged illness.’
she is dead looking.
Dr Seward
‘No man knows till he experiences, what it is to feel his own life blood drawn away into…
the veins of the woman he loves.’
this is definitely a sexual reference. Blood is representative of sexuality, red passion. 3 blood transfusions, 3 lovers.
Ds to Van Helsing
‘It is well we have no sceptic here, or he would say that you were working some spell to keep out an evil spirit.’
‘perhaps I am!’ he answered quietly as he began to make the …
wreath which Lucy was to wear round her neck.’
DS scorns at the unscientific methods. Van Helsing has a more open mind.
