Chapter 21 Quotes Flashcards
Dracula talking to Renfield
“All these lives I will give you , ay and many more and greater, through countless ages, if you will fall down and worship me!” And then a red cloud, like the colour of blood, seemed to close over my eyes; and before I knew what I was doing, I found myself opening the shah and speaking to him : “come…
in, Lord and Master.”
shows Dracula’s manipulation of Renfield
Renfield on Dracula’s entrance
‘There was a red cloud before me, and a noise like thunder, and the mist seemed to…
steal away under the door.’
Thunder, pathetic fallacy something bad and dramatic will happen
Mina and Dracula
‘the white clad figure of his wife. By her stood a tall, thin man, clad in…
black.’
dark figure, stood over and dominating the white purity of Mina
Dracula
‘With his left hand he held both Mrs Harker’s hands, keeping them away with her arms at full tension; his right hand gripped her by the back of the neck, forcing her…
face down on his bosom.’
rapey
Mina
‘Her white nightdress was smeared with blood, and a thin stream trickled down the man’s bare breast which was shown by his…
town-open dress.’
both partially underused and on bed, sexual
white nightdress with blood on it, symbol for sexual initiation and also a loss of purity and innocence
‘The attitude of the two had a terrible resemblance to a child forcing a kitten’s nose into a saucer of…
milk to compel it to drink.’
shows Dracula’s control of Mina
Kitten, weak innocent
‘The Count turned his face, and the hellish look that I had heard described seemed to leap into it. His eyes flamed red with devilish passion; the great nostrils of the white aquiline nose opened wide and quivered at the edges; and the white sharp teeth, behind the full lips of the blood dripping mouth, champed together like…
those of a wild animal.’
wild animal, passions take over
blood dripping mouth, ideas of the predator and excess
‘beside the bed, as if he had stepped out of the its- or rather as if the mist had turned into his figure, for it had entirely disappeared- stood a …
tall, thin man, all in black.’
he is mist like, unclear and unpresent, intangible
Mina
‘he placed his reeking lips upon…
my throat!’
Mina
‘a long time must have passed before he took his foul, awful, sneering mouth away. I saw it drip with…
the fresh blood.’
Dracula to Mina
‘And you, their best beloved one, are now to me, flesh of my flesh; blood of my blood; kin of my kin; my bountiful….
wine press for a while.’
wine press, luxury and delicious, also blood red
this statement could link in to how Mina’s son could mean Dracula is still alive in a way
Draculas sexual threat is out performing the other men,
Mina about Dracula
‘seized my neck and pressed my mouth to the wound, so that I must either suffocate or swallow some of the - oh my God! my God! what…
have I done.’
links to rape, no choice, control and power over her
about Mina
‘Then she began to rub her lips as though to cleanse them from…
pollution.’
Dracula’s blood has polluted her, link to Victorian fear of STI’s
