Chapter 13 Quotes Flashcards
Dr Seward
‘All Lucy’s loveliness had come back …
to her in death.’
Dr Seward about Lucy’s body
‘I could not believe I was looking at…
a corpse.’
Dr Seward about Lucy’s body
‘Every hour seemed to be enhancing her…
loveliness.’
‘Lucy lay in her coffin, strewn with the wild garlic flowers, which sent, through the odour of lily and rose, …
a heavy overpowering smell into the night.’
sending a message to Dracula, they will overcome him.
Jonathan on seeing Dracula again
‘He was very pale, and his eyes seemed bulging out as, half in terror and half in amazement, he gazed at a tall, thin man, with a beaky nose and a black…
moustache and pointed beard, who was also observing the pretty girl.’
Mina on the Count
‘His face was not a good face; it was hard, and cruel and sensual, and his big white teeth, that looked all the whiter because his lips were so red, were…
pointed like an animal’s.’
tell a criminal by their face
animalistic use of teeth
Jonathan
‘I believe it is the Count, but he…
has grown young.’
defies nature,supernatural
about Quincey
‘he bore himself through it like a moral….
Viking.’
masculine imagery
Dr Seward
‘Arthur was saying that he felt since then as if they two had been really married, and that she was his wife in the sight of God. None of us said a word of the other…
operations, and none of us ever shall.’
sex and blood transfusions are related
Van Helsing on blood transfusions
‘Then this sweet maid is a polyandrist, and me with my poor wife dead to me, but Alive by church’s law, though no wits, all gone- even I, who am faithful husband to this now-no-wife, am…
bigamist.’
sex and blood link
