Chapter 2 Quotes Flashcards
‘In the gloom the courtyard looked of considerable size, and as several dark ways led from it under great round…
arches it perhaps seemed bigger than it really is.’
Gothic setting
About Dracula
‘His hand actually seemed like a steel vice that could have ….
crushed mine if he had chosen.’
power, strength of Dracula, could crush metal
‘I stood close to a great door, old and studded with large iron nails and set in a …
projecting doorway of massive stone.’
‘disappeared down one of the…
dark openings.’
‘frowning walls and dark…
window openings.’
a scary gothic setting
‘Solicitor’s Clerk! Mina would not like that….
Solicitor.’
He tries to prove himself worthy of love through social status of being a solicitor
‘Then there was the sound of rattling chains and the clanking of massive bolts drawn back. A key was turned with the …
loud grating sound of long disuse, and the great door swung back.’
sensory and intimidating introduction to Dracula, very gothic
‘a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot,…
without a single speck of colour about him anywhere.’
His dark clothes show his bat like ways and the darkness within him.
Dracula
‘Welcome to my house! Enter freely and…
of your own will.’
This is how he traps him
‘As cold as ice- more like the hand of a ….
dead than a living man.’
ironic, he is the living dead. the cold hands represents his cold heart.
‘a small octagonal room lit by a single lamp and seemingly…
without a window of any sort.’
like a prison cell
Dracula
‘I have dined already and I do not …
sup.’
he drinks blood does not eat
‘a bottle of Tokay of which I had…
two glasses.’
he recounts all that he drinks, this way he can not put what he has seen down to drunkenness.
’ His face was a strong- a very strong- aquiline, with high bridge of the thin nose and peculiarly arched nostrils; with lofty…
domed forehead, and hair growing scantily round the temples.’
‘The mouth, so far as I could see was fixed and cruel looking, with peculiarly sharp white teeth; these protruded over the lips, whose …
remarkable ruddiness showed astonishing vitality in a man of his years.’
red from blood
‘his ears were pale and at the tops extremely…
pointed.’
bat like, inhuman, like devil horns
‘the general effect was one of extraordinary…
pallor.’
‘coarse-broad, with squat fingers. Strange to say, there were hairs in the centre of the palm. The nails were long and fine, and cut to a …
sharp point.’
he has animal like hands with almost claws, he is wolf like.
‘protuberant…
teeth.’
‘the howling of many wolves. The Count’s eyes gleamed, and he said:- ‘Listen to them- the children of …
the night. What music they make.’
Dracula sees the wolves almost like children, he controls them.
Dracula
‘you dwellers in the city cannot enter into the feeling of the…
hunter.’
he is like a hunter, he hunts down people to kill
Dracula
‘so sleep well and dream…
well.’
Freudian link
‘I think strange things which I dare not confess to my own soul. God keep me, if only for the sake of …
those dear to me.’
a prayer
‘the table service is of gold, and so beautifully wrought that it must be of …
immense value.’
Dracula has wealth
‘in none of the rooms is there …
a mirror.’
Dracula
‘I long to go through the crowded streets of your mighty London, to be in the midst of the whirl and rush of…
humanity, to share its life, its change, its death.’
feeds into Victorian fears of the unnoticed immigrant, disease, or even murderer like the Ripper.
Dracula
‘a stranger in a…
strange land.’
nobody will know of him in London
Dracula
‘the doors are locked, where of course you will not …
wish to go.’
under complete control
Dracula
‘We are in Transylvania and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways and there shall be to you…
many strange things.’
East v West, East is the place of superstition
Dracula
‘there is hardly a foot of soil in this region that has not been enriched by the blood of …
men, patriots or invaders.’
Dracula born from a bloodthirsty race. Link to Vlad the impaler.
‘The count smiled, and as his lips ran back over his gums, the long, sharp,
canine teeth showed out strangely.’
animalisticc and wolf like
About Carfax
‘The closed gates were of heavy old oak and iron and eaten with rust… few windows high up and heavily barred with…
iron.’
Carfax is also a gothic setting. Prison like too.
Dracula
‘how few days go to make up a…
century,’
Dracula has lived a long time.
‘I have taken with my Kodak views of it from…
various points.’
Kodak= new new science at the time, Dracula a book of modernity v the old traditions
Dracula
‘the walls of my castle are broken; the shadows are many, and the wind breathes cold through the…
broken battlements and casements. I love the shade and the shadow.’
Gothic setting for the dark and mysterious Dracula.
‘I fear I am the only living soul within the..
place.’
acknowledgement that you can live but without a soul, makes you not a real human. Liken to Dorian
‘there was no reflection of him in …
the mirror.’
Does him not having a reflection make him not real
After Jonathon cuts himself
‘When the Count saw my face, his eyes blazed with a sort of demoniac fury, and he suddenly made a grab at my throat. I drew away and his hand touched the
string of beads which held the crucifix. It made an instant change in him.’
he is devil like.
‘doors, doors, doors everywhere, and all locked and bolted. In no place save from the windows in the castle walls is there an available…
exit. The castle is a veritable prison, and I am a prisoner.’
