Chapter 9 Quotes Flashcards
Mina
‘I must attend to my…
husband.’
Mina gets married to sick Jonathan and spends her honeymoon nursing her. This shows her to be an ideal Victorian woman, devout to her husband and caring, like a mother.
Lucy to Mina
‘Oceans of love and millions of…
kisses.’
over the top loveliness, such good women
Lucy
‘I have an appetite like ..
a cormorant.’
she is changing into a more overt ‘New Woman’, cormorant is a bird, animalistic imagery
Dr Seward about Renfield
‘He was still in the straight-waistcoat and in the…
padded room.’
shows the treatment of the mentally ill in Victorian society
about Renfield
‘Violent all day, then quiet from moonrise…
to sunrise.’
when Dracula is awake Renfield is under his control.
Dr Seward
‘(Renfield) suddenly grew calm. I looked round instinctively, but could see nothing. Then I caught the patient’s eye and followed it, but could trace nothing as it looked into the moonlight except a big bat, which was flapping in its silent and ghostly way into the West. Bats usually wheel and flit about , but this one seemed to go straight on, as if it…
knew where it was bound for or had some intention of its own.’
into west, shows fear of immigration
Dracula has a clear intention here
Dr Seward about Van Helsing
‘He is a philosopher and a metaphysician, and one of the most advanced scientists of his day; and he has a completely open mind. This, with an iron nerve, a temper of the ice brook, an indomitable resolution, self command and toleration exalted from virtues to blessings, and the…
kindliest and truest heart that beats- these form his equipment.’
