Chapter 6 Quotes Flashcards
Mina
‘Lucy was looking sweetly pretty in her white…
lawn frock’
white-purity
Mr Swales to Mina about empty graves
‘yet in nigh half of them there bean’t no bodies…
at all.’
Fear of bodysnatching and empty graves the dialect is interesting, arguably Dracula is a book that blurs class divisions
Mina
‘That made me just a little heartsick, for I haven’t heard from Jonathan for…
a whole month.’
Dr Seward about Renfield
‘I shall have to invent a new classification for him and call him a zoophagous (life-eating) maniac; what he desires is to…
absorb as many lives as he can.’
Mina
‘Lucy, although she is so well, has lately taken to her…
old habit of walking in her sleep.’
Mina describing Lucy
‘She is a trifle stouter, and her cheeks are a lovely…
rose-pink.’
Mr Swales foreshadowing to Mina
‘There’s something in that wind and in the hoast beyond that sounds, and looks, and
tastes and smells like death.’
