Chapter 17 Quotes Flashcards
Van Helsing about Mina
‘pearl among…
women!’
she is precious and rare and valuable
Mina
‘In the struggle which we have before us to rid the earth of this terrible monster we must have all the knowledge and all the…
help which we can get.’
idea of knowledge =power
Mina
‘the world seemed full of good men - even if…
there are monsters in it.’
Mina
‘I suppose one ought to pity any thing so haunted as the count. That is just it: this Things is not…
human- not even beast.’
Mina
‘We women have something of the…
mother in us.’
Good victorian woman= mother
Mina about Arthur
‘I felt this big, sorrowing man’s head resting on me, as though it were that of the baby that some day may lie on my bosom, and I stroked his hair as though…
he were my own child.’
Mina’s mothering instincts come into play
Mina
‘No one but a woman can help a man when he is in trouble of the …
heart.’
traditional gender stereotypes
Mina about Quincey
‘It seemed but a poor comfort to so brave and unselfish a soul, and impulsively I bent over and…
kissed him.’
Mina caring and mothering the other men.
