Dracula Flashcards
‘ghastly
chalky pale’
‘one of God’s women to show us men
that there is a heaven we can enter’
‘the castle is on the very edge of
a terrible precipice.’
‘it is the fault of science
that wants to explain all’
‘forcing her face down
on his bosom.’
‘her white night dress
smeared with blood’
Nightime visitations ‘wrapped in
silver mist’
‘in the midst of our scientific, sceptical
matter of fact 19th century’
shorthand is ‘nineteenth century
up to date with a vengeance’
‘the old centuries have powers of their own which
mere modernity cannot kill.’
‘In all the mass of material of which the method was composed,
there is hardly one authentic document.’
‘wildest and least known
portions of Europe’
‘vast ruined castle.. tall black windows…
broken battlements’
‘I could not repress a
shudder’
‘sane man fighting
for his soul’
‘I think sometimes we must
all be mad.’
‘the poor soul who has wrought all this misery is
the saddest case of all.’
‘The castle is a
veritable prison.’
‘I felt in my heart a wicked burning desire that
they would kiss me with those red lips’
‘deliberate voluptuousness that was both
thrilling and repulsive.’
‘death now seemed the happier
choice of two evils’
‘there is method in his
madness’
the captain had been seized with
some kind of mania.’
‘bright full moon …
the ruins of the abbey.’
‘man or beast
I could not tell’
‘white face’
red, gleaming eyes’
‘long heavy gasps’
‘moaning and sighing’
‘eyes unclean and full
of hell-fire’ (Seward)
‘growling over [the child] as a dog
growls over a bone’
‘The Thing in the coffin
writhed’
‘red cloud like the colour of blood
seemed to close over my eyes.’
‘It seemed as though corruption had become
itself corrupt.’ (Jonathan)
‘future work…
is to great a strain for a woman to bear.’ (J)
‘we go out as the old knights of the cross to
redeem more’ (V-H)
‘Our dear madame mina is once more
our teacher’ (VH)
‘Even the almighty shuns
my polluted flesh’
‘so panther like in the movement, something
so unhuman.’ (Seward)
‘Your girls that you love
are mine already.’
‘If ever there was a woman
of all perfection.’ (J)
‘I felt a mighty power
fly along my arm’ (Seward)
‘horrid screeching
as the stake drove home’ (VH)
‘plunging of writhing form and lips
of bloody foam.’
‘There was something wild and
uncanny about the place.’ (Mina)
‘I shall be glad as long as I live, in that moment of final dissolution,
there was in the face a look of peace.’
‘This boy will someday … understand how some men so loved her,
that they did dare much for her sake.’ (Note by Jonathan Harker)
