Chapter 19 Quotes Flashcards
Carfax
‘The walls were fluffy and heavy with dust, and in the corners were masses of spider’s webs, whereon the dust had gathered till they looked like …
old tattered rags.’
gothic setting
Carfax described by Dr Seward
‘But as to the odour itself, how shall i describe it? It was not alone that it was composed of all the ills of mortality and with the pungent acrid smell of blood, but it seemed as though corruption had become…
itself corrupt.’
corruption of setting
Carfax
‘The whole place was becoming alive with…
rats.’
Rats in Carfax
‘They seemed to swarm over the place all at once, till the lamplight, shining on their moving dark bodies and glittering baleful eyes, made the place look like a …
bank of earth set with fireflies,’
Mina
‘It got hiker and thicker, till it seemed as if it became concentrated into a sort of pillar of cloud in the room, through the top of which i could see the light of the gas shining like a …
red eye.’
It’s Dracula but she can’t admit it, tries to explain it away
Mina
‘as I looked the fire divided, and seemed to shine on me through the fog like …
two red eyes.’
Mina
‘the last conscious effort which imagination made was to show me a livid white face bending over me out of…
the mist.’
Mina
‘I shall tomorrow night get them to give me a dose of …
chloral.’
Victorian drug habit
