Dracula Flashcards
‘Leaving the West’ - Foreignness
‘The impression I had was that we were leaving the West and entering the East’ - Harker
‘opened naturally’ - Foreignness
‘One was an atlas, which I found opened naturally at England, as if that map had been much used’ - Harker
‘Turkey frontier’ - Foreignness
‘In his life, his living life, he go over the Turkey frontier and attack his enemy on his own ground’ - Van Helsing
‘unpunctual trains’ - Technology/Foreignness
‘It seems to me that the further East you go the more unpunctual are the trains’ - Harker
‘up to date with a vengeance’ - Technology
‘It is nineteenth century up-to-date with a vengeance. And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their own which mere “modernity” cannot kill’ - Harker
‘transfusion of blood’ - Technology
‘We are about to perform what we call a transfusion of blood’ - Van Helsing
‘bitten by such a bat’ - Technology
‘“Do you mean to tell me that Lucy was bitten by such a bat; and that such a thing is here in London in the nineteenth century?”’ - Seward
‘wicked, burning desire’ - Sex
‘I felt in my heart a wicked, burning desire that they would kiss me with those red lips’ - Harker
‘voluptuous voice’ - Sex
‘and said in a soft, voluptuous voice’ - Lucy
‘hungry for you’ - Sex
‘My arms are hungry for you. Come, and we can rest together’ - Lucy
‘yearning for delay’ - Sex
‘I was moved to a yearning for delay which seemed to paralyse my faculties’ - Van Helsing
‘women are such cowards’ - Marriage
‘I supposed that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fears, and we marry him’ - Lucy
‘marry three men’ - Marriage
‘Why can’t they let a girl marry three men’ - Lucy
‘attend to my husband’ - Marriage
‘Jonathan is waking—I must attend to my husband!’ - Mina
‘edge of his bed facing outwards’ - Marriage
‘Kneeling on the near edge of the bed facing outwards was the white-clad figure of his wife’
‘naught in common’ - Gender
‘Faugh! Mina is a woman, and there is nought in common’ - Harker
‘shocked the New Woman’ - Gender
‘I believe we should have shocked the “New Woman” with our appetites’ - Mina
‘brave man’s blood’ - Gender
‘A brave man’s blood is the best thing on this earth when a woman is in trouble’ - Van Helsing
‘do not need such expression’ - Gender
‘In such cases men do not need much expression. A grip of the hand, the tightening of an arm over the shoulder’ - Harker
‘man’s brain’ - Gender
‘[Mina] has a man’s brain’ - Van Helsing
‘repulsion and terror’ - Good vs Evil
‘But my very feelings changed to repulsion and terror’ - Harker @ Dracula
‘glassy sea’ - Good vs Evil
‘the lately glassy sea was like a roaring and devouring monster’ - journalist
‘wafer on Mina’s forehead’ - Good vs Evil
‘As he had placed the Wafer on Mina’s forehead, it had seared it’
‘passed away’ - Good vs Evil
‘The curse has passed away!’ - Quincey Morris
