Chapter 25 Quotes Flashcards
Mina
’ The count is a criminal, and of criminal type..
Nordau and Lombroso would so classify him’
Link to modern psychological and criminology theory
Mina
‘There is a poison in my blood, in my soul, which may…
destroy me.’
refers to Dracula’s blood, will corrupt her completely
Van helsing
‘there I have hope that our man-brains that have been of man so long and that have not lost the Grace of God, will come higher than his child-brain that lie in his tomb for centuries, that grown not yet…
to our stature.’
VH about Mina
‘we want all her great brain which is trained like a man’s brain but is of sweet woman and have a special power which the Count …
give her.’
VH
‘the criminal has not a full man-brain. He is clever and cunning and resourceful; but he be not of man-stature as to brain. He be of…
child-brain in much.’
Mina
‘as he is a criminal he is selfish; and as his intellect is…
small.’
