Chapter 2 Quotes Flashcards

1
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‘In the gloom the courtyard looked of considerable size, and as several dark ways led from it under great round…

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arches it perhaps seemed bigger than it really is.’

Gothic setting

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2
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About Dracula

‘His hand actually seemed like a steel vice that could have ….

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crushed mine if he had chosen.’

power, strength of Dracula, could crush metal

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3
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‘I stood close to a great door, old and studded with large iron nails and set in a …

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projecting doorway of massive stone.’

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4
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‘disappeared down one of the…

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dark openings.’

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5
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‘frowning walls and dark…

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window openings.’

a scary gothic setting

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6
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‘Solicitor’s Clerk! Mina would not like that….

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Solicitor.’

He tries to prove himself worthy of love through social status of being a solicitor

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7
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‘Then there was the sound of rattling chains and the clanking of massive bolts drawn back. A key was turned with the …

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loud grating sound of long disuse, and the great door swung back.’

sensory and intimidating introduction to Dracula, very gothic

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8
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‘a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot,…

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without a single speck of colour about him anywhere.’

His dark clothes show his bat like ways and the darkness within him.

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9
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Dracula

‘Welcome to my house! Enter freely and…

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of your own will.’

This is how he traps him

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10
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‘As cold as ice- more like the hand of a ….

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dead than a living man.’

ironic, he is the living dead. the cold hands represents his cold heart.

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11
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‘a small octagonal room lit by a single lamp and seemingly…

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without a window of any sort.’

like a prison cell

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12
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Dracula

‘I have dined already and I do not …

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sup.’

he drinks blood does not eat

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13
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‘a bottle of Tokay of which I had…

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two glasses.’

he recounts all that he drinks, this way he can not put what he has seen down to drunkenness.

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14
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’ His face was a strong- a very strong- aquiline, with high bridge of the thin nose and peculiarly arched nostrils; with lofty…

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domed forehead, and hair growing scantily round the temples.’

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15
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‘The mouth, so far as I could see was fixed and cruel looking, with peculiarly sharp white teeth; these protruded over the lips, whose …

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remarkable ruddiness showed astonishing vitality in a man of his years.’

red from blood

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16
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‘his ears were pale and at the tops extremely…

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pointed.’

bat like, inhuman, like devil horns

17
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‘the general effect was one of extraordinary…

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pallor.’

18
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‘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 …

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sharp point.’

he has animal like hands with almost claws, he is wolf like.

19
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‘protuberant…

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teeth.’

20
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‘the howling of many wolves. The Count’s eyes gleamed, and he said:- ‘Listen to them- the children of …

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the night. What music they make.’

Dracula sees the wolves almost like children, he controls them.

21
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Dracula

‘you dwellers in the city cannot enter into the feeling of the…

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hunter.’

he is like a hunter, he hunts down people to kill

22
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Dracula

‘so sleep well and dream…

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well.’

Freudian link

23
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‘I think strange things which I dare not confess to my own soul. God keep me, if only for the sake of …

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those dear to me.’

a prayer

24
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‘the table service is of gold, and so beautifully wrought that it must be of …

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immense value.’

Dracula has wealth

25
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‘in none of the rooms is there …

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a mirror.’

26
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Dracula

‘I long to go through the crowded streets of your mighty London, to be in the midst of the whirl and rush of…

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humanity, to share its life, its change, its death.’

feeds into Victorian fears of the unnoticed immigrant, disease, or even murderer like the Ripper.

27
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Dracula

‘a stranger in a…

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strange land.’

nobody will know of him in London

28
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Dracula

‘the doors are locked, where of course you will not …

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wish to go.’

under complete control

29
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Dracula

‘We are in Transylvania and Transylvania is not England. Our ways are not your ways and there shall be to you…

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many strange things.’

East v West, East is the place of superstition

30
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Dracula

‘there is hardly a foot of soil in this region that has not been enriched by the blood of …

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men, patriots or invaders.’

Dracula born from a bloodthirsty race. Link to Vlad the impaler.

31
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‘The count smiled, and as his lips ran back over his gums, the long, sharp,

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canine teeth showed out strangely.’

animalisticc and wolf like

32
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About Carfax

‘The closed gates were of heavy old oak and iron and eaten with rust… few windows high up and heavily barred with…

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iron.’

Carfax is also a gothic setting. Prison like too.

33
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Dracula

‘how few days go to make up a…

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century,’

Dracula has lived a long time.

34
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‘I have taken with my Kodak views of it from…

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various points.’

Kodak= new new science at the time, Dracula a book of modernity v the old traditions

35
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Dracula

‘the walls of my castle are broken; the shadows are many, and the wind breathes cold through the…

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broken battlements and casements. I love the shade and the shadow.’

Gothic setting for the dark and mysterious Dracula.

36
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‘I fear I am the only living soul within the..

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place.’

acknowledgement that you can live but without a soul, makes you not a real human. Liken to Dorian

37
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‘there was no reflection of him in …

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the mirror.’

Does him not having a reflection make him not real

38
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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

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string of beads which held the crucifix. It made an instant change in him.’

he is devil like.

39
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‘doors, doors, doors everywhere, and all locked and bolted. In no place save from the windows in the castle walls is there an available…

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exit. The castle is a veritable prison, and I am a prisoner.’