Chapter 4 Quotes Flashcards
‘nothing can be more dreadful than those awful women, who were- who are- waiting to…
suck my blood.’
‘it would be madness to quarrel with the Count whilst I am so absolutely in his…
power.’
About Mina
‘It would shock and frighten her to death were I to expose my…
heart to her.’
traditional women’s role, shouldn’t know or feel danger.
Dracula about Jonathon’s shorthand letter
‘a vile thing, an outrage upon friendship and
hospitality.’
About the Gypsies
‘They looked up at me stupidly and…
pointed.’
shows perceived superiority of the West
‘some ruthless…
villiany’
‘I am shut up here, a veritable prisoner, but without that protection of the law which is even…
a criminals right and consolation.’
you can tell J is a lawyer
Peasant woman
‘Monster, give me my child.’
‘The she tore her hair and beat her breast, and abandoned herself to…
all the violence of extravagant emotion.’
‘At the worst it can only be death; and a man’s death is not a calf’s, and the dreaded Here-after may…
still be open to me.’
Victorian male bravery
‘At the bottom there was a dark, tunnel-like passage, through which came a deathly, sickly odour, the odour of…
old earth newly turned.’
gothic af, tension builds, sensory
‘He was either dead or asleep, I could not say which- for the eyes were open and stony, but without the glassiness of death… I bent over him, and tried…
to find any sign of life.’
living dead, sleeps in a coffin
‘I wished I had a gun or some lethal weapon , that I might…
destroy him’
lexical choice, destroy not kill, he is not human.
‘I feared to see those weird…
sisters.’
‘He smiled such a smooth, soft,…
diabolical smile.’
oxymoronic
‘close at hand came the howling of many wolves. It was almost as if the sound sprang up at the raising of his hand, just as the music of a great orchestra…
seems to leap under the baton of the conductor.’
Drac is in complete control
‘The last I saw of Count Dracula was his kissing his hand to me; with a red light of triumph in his eyes, and with a smile that …
Judas in hell might be proud of.’
DEVILLL
‘There lay the Count, but looking as if his youth had been half renewed, for the white hair and moustache were changed to dark-iron grey; the cheeks were fuller, and the white skin seemed ruby red underneath; the mouth was redder than ever, for on the lips were gouts …
of fresh blood, which trickled from the corners of the mouth and ran over the chin and neck.’
‘It seemed as if the whole awful creature were simply gorged with blood; he lay like a filthy leech, exhausted with
repletion.’
leech= disease carrier
‘the head turned , and the eyes fell full upon me with all their blaze of …
basilisk horror.’
snake like, devil imagery again, Eden , corruption
‘The last glimpse I had was of the bloated face blood stained and fixed with a grin of malice which would have …
held its own in the nethermost hell.’
‘I am alone in the castle with those awful women. Faugh! Mina is a women and there is naught in common. They are…
devils of the pit.’
‘away from this cursed spot, from this cursed land, where the devil and his children still walk with…
earthly feet.’
