Dracula Flashcards

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‘ghastly

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chalky pale’

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‘one of God’s women to show us men

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that there is a heaven we can enter’

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‘the castle is on the very edge of

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a terrible precipice.’

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‘it is the fault of science

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that wants to explain all’

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‘forcing her face down

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on his bosom.’

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6
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‘her white night dress

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smeared with blood’

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Nightime visitations ‘wrapped in

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silver mist’

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‘in the midst of our scientific, sceptical

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matter of fact 19th century’

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shorthand is ‘nineteenth century

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up to date with a vengeance’

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‘the old centuries have powers of their own which

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mere modernity cannot kill.’

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‘In all the mass of material of which the method was composed,

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there is hardly one authentic document.’

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‘wildest and least known

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portions of Europe’

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‘vast ruined castle.. tall black windows…

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broken battlements’

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14
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‘I could not repress a

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shudder’

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‘sane man fighting

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for his soul’

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16
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‘I think sometimes we must

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all be mad.’

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17
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‘the poor soul who has wrought all this misery is

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the saddest case of all.’

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18
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‘The castle is a

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veritable prison.’

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‘I felt in my heart a wicked burning desire that

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they would kiss me with those red lips’

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‘deliberate voluptuousness that was both

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thrilling and repulsive.’

21
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‘death now seemed the happier

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choice of two evils’

22
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‘there is method in his

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madness’

23
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the captain had been seized with

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some kind of mania.’

24
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‘bright full moon …

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the ruins of the abbey.’

25
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‘man or beast

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I could not tell’

26
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‘white face’

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red, gleaming eyes’

27
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‘long heavy gasps’

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‘moaning and sighing’

28
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‘eyes unclean and full

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of hell-fire’ (Seward)

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‘growling over [the child] as a dog

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growls over a bone’

30
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‘The Thing in the coffin

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writhed’

31
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‘red cloud like the colour of blood

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seemed to close over my eyes.’

32
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‘It seemed as though corruption had become

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itself corrupt.’ (Jonathan)

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‘future work…

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is to great a strain for a woman to bear.’ (J)

34
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‘we go out as the old knights of the cross to

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redeem more’ (V-H)

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‘Our dear madame mina is once more

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our teacher’ (VH)

36
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‘Even the almighty shuns

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my polluted flesh’

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‘so panther like in the movement, something

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so unhuman.’ (Seward)

38
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‘Your girls that you love

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are mine already.’

39
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‘If ever there was a woman

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of all perfection.’ (J)

40
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‘I felt a mighty power

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fly along my arm’ (Seward)

41
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‘horrid screeching

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as the stake drove home’ (VH)

42
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‘plunging of writhing form and lips

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of bloody foam.’

43
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‘There was something wild and

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uncanny about the place.’ (Mina)

44
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‘I shall be glad as long as I live, in that moment of final dissolution,

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there was in the face a look of peace.’

45
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‘This boy will someday … understand how some men so loved her,

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that they did dare much for her sake.’ (Note by Jonathan Harker)