Drac/12N- Identity/deception

Question 1

Ch3, Harker sees Drac at night as a giant creature for 1st time (1st sighting of zoomorphism)

Answer 1

“Trick of moonlight…no delusion. I saw fingers and toes grasp…”
“What manner of creature is it…semblence of a man?”

Question 2

Ch3, The Vamp Brides seduction of Harker

Answer 2

“…silvery,musical laugh..hard…could never come from softness of human lips.”
“…honey-sweet…bitter underlying the sweet…as one smells in blood”

Question 3

Ch12, Lucy post bite; resting.[red light- alludes to prostitution, contrasts pale cheeks which connote purity -colour imagery of fair/white skin=purity; SO shows Lucy’s succubus persona disguised under her fair looks”

Answer 3

“Red light streamed in…gave colour to pale cheeks.”

Question 4

Ch12, Arthur nearly seduced by a turned Lucy, stopped by Van Helsing-he sees through her deception?

Answer 4

“Voluptuos voice… had never heard from her lips”

Question 5

Ch13,Mina sees Dracula for 1st time[animals-concrete noun, suggests he looks inhumane, disguised as a human? OR antisemetic/xenophobic as hes a foreigner in Victorian England- Context: Stoker was traditional Victorian, v antisemetic]

Answer 5

“His face was not a good face…pointed like an animals”

Question 6

1.2 Viola’s idea to become Cesario

Answer 6

“Conceal me what I am”

Question 7

1.4 Orsino abt Viola/Cesario; ironic as aud knows truth

Answer 7

“All is semblative a woman’s part”

Question 8

Viola’s soliloquoy 2.2

Answer 8

“Disguise,I see thou art a wickedness, wherein the pregnant enemy does much”gendered lang; suggests women = more susceptible to disguise [pregnant enemy]
“I,poor monster,” refutes her disguise, sees her deception as Cesario as wrong [monster-noun connotes evil, beast/ghastly, unwanted/refuted by society]
“As I am man” “As I am woman” gendered nouns, personal pronoun ‘I’- accepts her crossing of traditional/ Elizabethan gender boundaries

Question 9

4.2 Feste, points out other priests who bear the gown but only pretend to play the part as he goes to disguise himself as priest before Malvolio. Shakespeare satirizes the Church + deceptive priests

Answer 9

“Ill put it on…dissemble myself in’t, and I would I were the first that ever dissembled in such a gown”

Question 10

5.1 Viola reveals true identity + Orsino agrees to marry her but insists on using her male alias, suggests he fell inlove w her false identity

Answer 10

“Cesario…you are a man…in other habits you are seen,Orsino’s mistress, his fancy’s queen.”