Chapter 14 Quotes Flashcards
Mina to Van Helsing
‘I could not resist the temptation of mystifying him a bit- I suppose it is some of the taste of the original apple that remains still in our mouths so-…
I handed him the shorthand diary.’
woman are sinful, this is ingrained into society
Van Helsing to Mina
‘Oh, you so clever…
woman.’
rare for a woman to be intelligent. Patriarchy and sexism
Van Helsing to Mina
‘good women, whose lives and whose truths may make good lesson for the..
children that are to be.’
a woman’s role is child rearing
Mina
‘Van Helsing is the man to unmask him and …
hunt him out.’
Mina
‘What an awful thing if that man, that monster, be really in London! I…
fear to think.’
East v West
Van Helsing about Mina
‘She is one of God’s women, fashioned by…
His own hand.’
a good woman v bad woman
VH to DS
‘Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet…
which are.’
VH
‘It is the fault of science that it wants to…
explain all.’
acceptance of the supernatural, science cannot explain everything
DS to VH
‘Do you mean to tell me that Lucy was bitten by such a bat; and that such a thing is here in London in…
the nineteenth century.’
DS believes in the ultra modernity of his time, he cannot comprehend the supernatural in an age of science.
Dr Seward
‘I feel like a novice blundering through a bog in a mist, jumping from…
one tussock to another.’
blind without science, the world of supernatural is unfamiliar and risky. mist could mirror Dracula’s power, he is confused by this power.
