Chapter 15 Quotes Flashcards
Dr Seward
‘Madness were easy to bear compared with…
truth like this.’
struggles to get his head around the supernatural, he thinks himself to be similar to the mad deluded men he treats
Lucy’s Grave
‘the flowers hung lank and dead, their whites turning to rust and their greens to…
brown.’
rust- decay and brown
she has been corrupted and morally decayed like the flowers
DS on opening the grave
‘It seemed as much an affront to the dead as it would have been to have stripped off her clothing…
in her sleep whilst living.’
it feels really wrong. the grave are her clothes now.
Dr Seward
‘The coffin was empty’
‘Perhaps a bodysnatcher’ I suggested
fear of bodysnatching in Vic Society
Lucy in coffin
‘she was, if possible, more radiantly beautiful than ever; and I could not believe that she was dead. The lips were red, nay redder than before and …
on the cheeks was a delicate bloom.’
red- sexuality
flowers- life, she is undead
Van Helsing
‘I shall cut off her head and fill her mouth with…
garlic, and I shall drive a stake through her body.’
mutilation of body horrific to Victorian society, might not go to heaven
stake is very phallic, shows the men’s desire for her
‘the white figure last night that bought the child…
to the churchyard.’
a white figure, Lucy looks pure but isn’t
Dr Seward
‘surely there must be some rational explanation of all these…
mysterious things.’
a man of science he is always looing to rationalise the supernatural.
Arthur
‘Un-Dead! Not alive! What do you mean? Is this all a …
night-mare, or what is it?’
Freudian reading here perhaps
Arthur on Lucy’s body.
‘Not for the wide world will I consent to any…
mutilation of her dead body.’
