Drac / Frank comparison quotes Flashcards

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Monstrosity

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D: "aquiline"
"he lay like a filthy leech"
F: "breathless horror and disgust filled my heart"
"demoniacal corpse"
"yellow skin"
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Innocence of monsters

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D: “There lay the count, but looking as if his youth had been half renewed”
F:”a grin wrinkled his cheeks”

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Voice of monsters

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D: “my revenge is just begun!”
F: “I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend”
“Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned away in disgust?”

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Reverse-colonialism

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D: “create a new and ever-widening circle of semi-demons”
“I long to go through the crowded streets of your mighty London”
F: “a race of devils would be propagated upon the earth”

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Setting
Drac - submerging into civilised society
vs. Frank - distanced from society

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D: “I am glad that it is old and big. I myself am of an old family, and to live in a new house would kill me.”
F: “fixed on one of the remotest of the Orkneys as the scene of my labours”

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Dehumanising women

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D: after ‘rape’ staking of Lucy, she is referred to as “the thing”; “the body”
“We men are determined to destroy this monster; but it is no part for a woman”
“She has a man’s brain”
F:

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Distorted ambition

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D: Seward experimenting with Renfield: “I might advance my own branch of science”
F: “I will pioneer a new way, explore unknown powers”
“animate lifeless clay”

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Setting

Journey of discovery; unchartered territory

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D: Jonathon “in the midst of the Carpathian Mountains; one of the wildest and least known portions of Europe”
F: Walton “region of beauty and delight”
“land of mist and snow”

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Effeminate male

- emasculation through taboo homosexuality

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D: “fair cheeks blazing red with passion”
“then the horror overcame me, and I sank down unconscious”
F: “every night I was oppressed by a slow fever… most painful degree”

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Women sexuality

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D: “shone like pearls against the rubies of their voluptuous lips”
“languorous ecstasy”
“Why can’t they let a girl marry three men”
“voluptuous wantonness”
desire for sexual liberation - “half-reclining white figure” to “breathless”

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Female innocence - Lucy’s letter vs. Elizabeth’s letter

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SIMILARITIES:

  • only time hear their voices are in letters - both these letters are a subconscious cry for help
  • both letters (although in different ways) express an insecurity, both of which are exploited by monsters - both die as they are both lost

DIFFERENCES:

  • Lucy’s letter is self-pitying, inconsistent, flirtatious - insecurity
  • Elizabeth’s letter is selfless, adheres to social expectations, but insecurity - wants own children and self of belonging
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dreams in Frankenstein

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F: “I thought I held the corpse of my dead mother”

Elizabeth “livid with the hue of death”

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Similarities / Differences in Jonathon and Frankenstein’s reaction to their monsters

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SIMILARITIES

  • both JH and Frank take advantage of creatures in vulnerable positions: JH strikes Dracula; Frank abandons monster
  • both afraid of reverse-colonialism: JH demonises Dracula; Frank demonises monster
  • both have selfish motivation : JH strikes Dracula to save own masculinity, knows can’t defeat; Frank flees monster to save his own reputation

DIFFERENCES
- at sight of monster, JH strikes it and is determined to defeat it; Frank flees his monster - monster is reflective of Frank’s scientific ability

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Walton / Dracula

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  • Walton goes from civilised land to the wild
  • Dracula goes from the wild to civilised land
    => both underestimate the power of nature/humanity with overreaching ambition
  • Walton desires companionship - one that mirrors his ambitions, as a rival to sustain his challenge and spurn him further?
  • Dracula views friendship as a way to take advantage “to know not is to care not”
    => respect established through fear
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Feminist perspective Madonna-whore complex

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Elizabeth = angel
Lucy = when fallen, her demonic presence unifies the men
=> women characterised by either angel or demon

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Dr Seward / Frankenstein

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=> both Seward and Frank obsessed w ambition and God-like powers

  • isolate + marginalise themselves
  • jealous of powers of nature / Dracula
  • science as an instrument
  • professors as aspirations - ancient philosophers and Waldman / Van Helsing
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Renfield / Monster

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  • Renfield dies honourable death in protecting Mina
  • Monster wants to die by sacrifice - putting Frank in a fire and stepping into fire
    => both sacrifice themselves for their parental figure
    => monsters are the heroes of the texts
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Trauma

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  • Frankenstein’s denial of his trauma: “yet dared not exhibit the pain I felt”
    VS.
  • JH not afraid to be emasculated, accepts can’t defeat Drac himself, accepts real threat Drac poses, accepts pride is not a virtue- thus is restored, honoured, rewarded with a son: “I do believe that if he had not had me to lean on and to support him he would have sunk down”
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Rejection

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  • Monster’s vengeful acts due to Frank’s rejections
  • Seward’s repression of emotions after rejected by Lucy: “Cannot eat, cannot rest, so diary instead”
    => Rejection -> Revenge in gothic fiction
  • critique on unaccepting society
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Female innocence - Elizabeth

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“gifted” to Frankenstein
“soft looks of compassion”
“gentle voice”

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Doubling - frankenstein and monster

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“My own spirit let loose from the grave, forced to destroy all that was dear to me”

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Monster + Adam

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“I ought to be thy Adam, but am rather a fallen angel”

23
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monster = anti-narcissistic

Lacan’s theory - infants discovering themselves

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“unable to believe that it was indeed I reflected in that mirror”

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Renfield innocence

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“Life is all I want”

25
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Lucy’s sexual liberation as a vampire

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From “Why can’t a girl marry three men?” to

“Arthur, Arthur, oh my love”

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Safie

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“acquire higher knowledge”

27
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phallic imagery of Castle Dracula

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“jagged lines against moonlit sky”

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Fate and destiny

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Frank: “Such were the professor’s words–rather let me say such the words of fate, enounced to destroy me”
Monster: “I too can create desolation” - master of fate

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Doubling frank and monster

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Frank: “when I thought of the creature I gnashed my teeth”
Monster: “hellish rage and gnashing of teeth”