Dracula Flashcards
“His hands touched me, I could not repress a shudder”
Chapter 2
- Fear
- Childish and impulsive
- Posessive
“Welcome to my house! Come freely. Go safely.”
Chapter 2
- initially presented as ambivalent
- Harker crossing a geographical boundary; entered Dracula’s territory and will suffer the consequences
- irony: Harker isn’t safe
“Rather cruel looking with peculiarly white sharp teeth … ears were pale”
Chapter 2
- shows how natural things become twisted
- smile usually connotes happiness but here it indicates danger
“His eyes blazed over me with a sort of demoniac fury and he suddenly made a grab at my throat”
Chapter 2
- connotations of the devil
- he has seen the blood and lost control of himself
What are Dracula’s motives and intentions?
- His main intention is to undergo his desire to move form Transylvania to London
- wants to be closer to modern society
- hard for him to travel and he is limited by the need to rest near his native Transylvanian sail
- “I long to go through the crowded streets of your mighty London” (Chapter 2)
- “Tell me all about my new estate in London” (Chapter 2)
“A noble of that country”
Chapter 1
- first mention of Dracula
- described in a royal like way
- insinuates a status of wealth; deep rooted to the society
“My friend,”
Chapter 1 (letter)
- forebodes the stranger way that Dracula is possessive of Harker
“Sleep well tonight”
Chapter 1 (letter)
- imperative
- demanding; hints of his personality
“You will enjoy your stay in my beautiful land”
Chapter 1 (letter)
- first person pronoun
- isn’t his literal land; links back to him being ‘noble’
- subtly demanding
“Your friend, Dracula”
Chapter 1 (letter)
- manipulative
- persuading Harker they are friends
“The light and warmth and the Count’s courteous welcome seemed to have dissipated all my doubts and fears”
Chapter 2:
- ironic; the Count should be the cause of his doubts and feard
“His face was a strong - a very strong - aquiline, with high bridge of the thin nose and peculiarly arched nostrils; with lofty domed forehead”
“His ears were pale”
Chapter 2:
- his appearance is associated with demoniac European myths
- pale ears; life is drained out of him. no pulse so no blood flow
- arched nostrils; strong sense of smell predatory and animalistic.
“As the Count leaned over me and his hands touched me, I could not repress a shudder.”
Chapter 2:
- childish and impulsive. shows he is possessive of Harker
- Harker’s reaction emphasises fear supposed to be evoked within the reader
“Ah, sir, you dwellers in the city cannot enter into the feeling of the hunter.”
Chapter 2:
- foreshadows motive to move
- foreshadows revelations Harker makes us about his true nature
- could refer to people who live in the city or people in general
“Welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely.”
Chapter 2
- ironic: Jonathan isn’t safe
- links to how you have to invite vampires in
“In the library I found, to my great delight, a vast number of English books”
Chapter 2
- indicates a deep interest in the country
- learning English
“I long to go through the crowded streets of your mighty London”
Chapter 2
- London is a powerful and well populated city: a lot of opportunity for blood
“I pray you, my good young friend, that you will not discourse of things other than business in your letters”
Chapter 3
- becoming increasingly controlling
- censors Harker’s communications. can only say what Dracula allows him to
“Just as a lizard moves along a wall”
Chapter 3
- lizards are cold blooded predators and are snake like
- lizards have to sunbathe to warm up their blood. Dracula cannot go out in the sun
“How dare you touch him, any of you?”
Chapter 3
- appears to save Harker from the vampire brides but it is only because he is ‘preserving’ him for his own use
“As if the stranger had great eyes like burning flames”
Chapter 8
- simile
- his eyes indicate evil because no human has red eyes
- symbolises bloodlust
“That terrible Being”
Chapter 17
- pre modifying adjective
- capitalised for dominance, like a different specifies
- ‘God’ is capitalised, same with the devil
“He throws no shadow; he make in the mirror no reflect”
Chapter 18
- reflection symbolises his soul?
- his soul is trapped in his body and cannot be shown back in a mirror
- AO3: ancient legend in Medieval Europe - demonic figures have no reflection
“All these lives will I give you, ay, and many more and greater, through countless ages, if you will fall down and worship me!”
Chapter 21
- manipulated Renfield to let him in
“Thin white mist”
Chapter 21
- mist symbolises the viral quality of Dracula: he can be anywhere at once and infect those near him
“You - with your pale faces all in a row, like sheep in a butcher’s”
Chapter 23
- simile
- sinister imagery
- connotations of slaughter
- sheep move in a herd, suggests Dracula thinks they don’t think for themselves
“There was in the face a look of peace, such as I never could have imagined might have rested there.”
Chapter 27
- God forgives him
- Dracula is granted peace from God, his soul has been freed to heaven
