Chapter 3 Quotes

Question 1

Harker after seeing lizard like count

‘…in my diary in shorthand all that has happened since I closed it last. It is the nineteenth century up-to-date with a vengeance. And yet, unless my senses deceive me…

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the old centuries had, and have powers of their own which mere modernity cannot kill’

Suggests modernity and science have their limits and the count suggests such limits could have been reached

Question 2

‘I behaved much as a rat does in a…

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trap.’

Question 3

‘What meant of the giving of the crucifix, of the garlic, of the wild…

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rose, of the mountain ash?’

Question 4

‘especially of battles, he spoke as if he had been present …

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at them all.’

Dracula has been alive for centuries

Question 5

Dracula

‘The warlike days are over. Blood is too precious a thing these days of dishonourable peace; and the glories of the great races are as a…

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tale that is told.’

he likes warfare and the blood that comes with it.

Question 6

‘a heavy hand on my…

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shoulder.’

Dracula is a heavy weight controlling him and troubling his mind.

Question 7

‘sharp canine teeth lying over the red…

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under-lip.’

Question 8

Dracula about the castle

‘It is old and has many memories, and there are bad dreams for those who sleep…

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unwisely. Be warned!’

Question 9

‘my own doubt was as to whether any dream could be more terrible than the unnatural, horrible net of gloom and…

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mystery which seemed closing round me.’

He feels trapped and afraid.

Question 10

‘I saw the whole man slowly emerge from the window and begin to crawl down the castle wall over that dreadful…

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abyss, face down, with his cloak spreading out around him like great wings.’

bat-like

Question 11

‘just as a lizard moves along a wall.’

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scaly creature, attractive

Question 12

‘What manner of man is this, or what manner of the creature is this in the …

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semblance of a man.’

Question 13

‘I am in fear-in awful fear- and there is no escape for me; I am encompassed about with terrors that I dare…

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not think of.’

dramatic tension

Question 14

‘Two were dark and had high aquiline noses, like the Count, and great dark, piercing eyes, that seemed to be almost red when contrasted with the pale yellow moon. The other was fair, as fair as can be, with great, wavy masses of golden hair and..

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eyes like pale sapphires.’

beauty described like jewellery

Question 15

‘All three had brilliant white teeth, that shone like pearls against the ruby of their …

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voluptuous lips.’

jewellery used to describe their beauty, ageless, timeless, beautiful but cold and hard, not alive

Question 16

‘There was something about them that made me uneasy, some longing and at the same time some deadly fear. I felt in my heart a wicked…

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burning desire that they would kiss me with those red lips.’

sexuality= wicked

Question 17

‘It was like the intolerable, tingling sweetness of water glasses when played on by a …

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cunning hand. The fair girl shook her head coquettishly.’

oxymoronic

Question 18

‘in an agony of delightful anticipation.’

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oxymoronic again. He knows its wrong but finds them sexually arousing

Question 19

‘her breath upon me. Sweet it was in one sense, honey sweet, and sent the same tingling through the nerves as her voices, but with a bitter underlying the sweet, a bitter offensive as one smells in….

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blood.’

she has been drinking blood. Bitter sweet, oxymoronic, shows his attitude of Victorian man, repressed sexuality

Question 20

‘There was a deliberate voluptuousness which was both thrilling and repulsive, and as she arched her neck she actually licked her lips like an…

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animal, till I could see in the moonlight the moisture shining on the scarlet lips and on the red tongue as it lapped the white sharp teeth.’

Question 21

‘I closed my eyes in languorous ecstasy and waited- waited with ….

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beating heart.’

excitement verges on fear, pleasure verges on pain

Question 22

‘I was conscious of the presence of the Count and of his being lapped in a storm of…

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fury.’

Question 23

Dracula to weird sisters

‘This man belongs…

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to me.’

Question 24

‘His eyes were positively blazing. The red light in them was lurid, as if the flames of hell fire blazed behind them. His face was deathly pale and the lines of it were hard like drawn wires; the thick eyebrows that met over the nose now seemed like a heaving bar of…

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white hot metal.’

devil like imagery ect, heat

Question 25

About the women

‘They simply seemed to fade into the rays of the moonlight and pass out…

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through the window.’

not real