Chapter 23 Quotes Flashcards
Dracula to Van Helsing and the men taunting
‘The women you love…
are mine already; and through them you and others shall yet be mine- my creatures to do my bidding.’
Van helsing about Dracula
‘That big child- brain…
of his.’
Jonathan
‘I care for nothing now,’ he answered hotly, ‘except to wipe out this brute from the face of cation. I would sell…
my soul to do it.’
should selling, link to DG. however God does not buy should only the devil
about Dracula
‘There was something so panther like in the movement- something so…
unhuman.’
panther, predator vicious
‘As the Count saw us, a horrible sort of snarl passed over his face, showing the eye-teeth long and pointed; but the evil smile as quickly passed into a cold stare of…
lion-like distain.’
again idea of big cat, predator, blood, power
Dracula to the men
‘You think you baffle me, you- with all your pale faces in a row like…
sheep in a butcher’s’
implies they will be slaughtered, like sacrificial lambs
weak and vulnerable in comparison to big cat imagery used for Dracula
Jonathan
‘May God give him into my hand just for long enough to destroy that earthly life of him which we are aiming at. If beyond it I could send his soul for ever and ever to burning hell I …
would do it.’
Mina
‘Oh thank God for good brave…
man.’
patriarchy
about Dracula
‘a pack of men following him like dogs after a fox, this `London was…
no place for him.’
dog- good
fox- evil (to Victorian attitudes)
Van Helsing to Mina
‘he can live for centuries, and you are but a mortal woman. Time is now to be dreaded since once he put that mark upon…
your throat.’
she has no hope unless they kill him
