Chapter 16 Quotes Flashcards
Lucy in undead form
‘With a careless motion, she flung to the ground, callous as a devil…
the child she had clutched strenuously to her breast, growling over it as a dog growls over a bone’
Parodic distortion of the Victorian ideal of maternal feminity
animalistic imagery, lets her primal nature take over her in vampire form
new woman, not wanting motherhood
‘Never did tombs look so ghastly white, never did cypress, or yew, or juniper so seem the embodiment of funeral gloom; never did tree or grass rustle so…
ominously.’
the setting is very gothic in the churchyard, there is a sense of tension building
About Lucy
‘a dim white figure, which held something dark…
at its breast.’
clutches darkness, integral to the vampire.
‘Lucy Westerna, but yet how changed. The sweetness was turned to adamantine, heartless cruelty and …
voluptuous wantonness.’
she is sexual and cruel, opposite of ideal Victorian woman
About Lucy
‘we could see that the lips were crimson with fresh blood, and that the stream had trickled over her chin and stained…
the purity of her lawn death robe.’
white, going red dress, sin
spilling over her chin, ideas of excess and gorging oneself, disguising and repulsive
Vampire Lucy
‘she drew back with an angry snarl, such as a cat gives when…
taken unawares.’
animalistic imagery again
‘Lucy’s eyes in form and colour but Lucy’s eyes unclean and full of hell fire, instead of the…
pure gentle orbs we knew.’
devilish imagery
reflects the duality of the old Lucy v the New Lucy
Dr Seward about Vampire Lucy
‘the remnants of my love passed into hate and loathing; had she then to be killed, I could have done it with…
savage delights.’
he takes pleasure in the idea of her punishment
brings out a savagery in him. Ideas of gang rape
Vampire Lucy
‘her eyes blazed with …
unholy light.’
Vampire Lucy
‘with a languorous, voluptuous grace, said:- ‘come to me Arthur. Leave the others and come to me. My arms are….
hungry for you.’’
sexually forward, not victorian way.
arms hungry has double meaning, sexual undertones and as a vampire she is actually hungry for his blood
Dr Seward about Vampire Lucy
‘There was something diabolically…
sweet in her tones.’
antithesis oxymoronic phrase, shows the repression of sexuality, he is attracted to her but knows this is sinful.
Dr Seward
‘As for Arthur, he seemed…
under a spell.’
she enchants with her beauty and sexuality
Vampire Lucy
‘the eyes seemed to throw out sparks of hell fire, the brows were wrinkled as though the folds of flesh were…
coils of Medusa’s snakes.’
idea of Medusa, beautiful woman cursed, turned to evil.
snakes, connotations of EVE, SINFUL WOMEN
Vampire Lucy
‘If a face ever meant death- if looks …
could kill.’
again idea of Medusa
Dr Seward
‘But there was no love in my own heart, nothing but loathing for the foul Thing which had taken Lucy’s shape without…
her soul.’
ideas of the soul, good link to Dorian Gray
