Dracula - Event Summaries - Key Quotes - complete Flashcards
what is the name of Dracula’s castle
castle Dracula
C1-4what does harker note about Transylvanian trains
‘the further east you go the more unpunctual are the trains’
C1-4the landlady of his hotel gives harker what two items
a ‘crucifix’ and a ‘rosary’
C1-4 why is harker uncomfortable with the landlady’s gifts?
he is an ‘English Churchman’ and these things are ‘idolatrous’
C1-4what religious sect does harker describe himself as adhering to?
he is an ‘English churchman’ (protestant)
what colour are Dracula’s/normal vampire eyes?
red
C1-4when the wolves get close to harker on the way to castle dracula what does harker feel?
a ‘paralysis of fear’
C1-4when the count welcomes harker to his house what does the count say?
‘enter freely and of your own will!’
C1-4what does the count call the wolves howling outside his castle?
‘the children of the night’
C1-4when harker realises he is trapped in castle dracula how does he feel? what animal does he compare himself to?
‘wild feeling’ / ‘mad’ / ‘like a rat in a trap’
C1-4 dracula keeps harker up well into the night doing what
talking
C1-4when the count tells harker to write to England saying he will be in Transylvania for another month harker knows he is what
‘a prisoner’
C1-4 outside his window in castle dracula Harker sees what
a ‘dreadful abyss’
C1-4when looking out of his window harker sees the count do what
climb down the wall in a ‘lizard fashion’
C1-4 harker, after some time at castle dracula, understands what about the old centuries. he starts to doubt what?
‘the old centuries have powers of their own which mere modernity cannot kill’
his ‘sanity’
C1-4what two things do the vampire women fill harker with?
‘deadly fear’ and ‘burning desire’
C1-4 what does dracula say about harker when he finds harker with the vampire women
‘this man belongs to me!’
C1-4the count has what animals ‘at his command’
wolves
C1-4 when harker sees the count later in his stay how has the count’s appearance changed?
‘youth…half renewed’
C1-4 harker tries to kill dracula with what instrument
a shovel
C1-4 why does harker fail to kill dracula?
he feels ‘paralysed’
C5-9 what does harker call the land of Transylvania at the end of his stay at castle dracula?
‘this cursed land, where the devil and his children still walk with earthly feet’
C5-9 what does Lucy exclaim about marriage after her 3 marriage proposals?
‘why can’t they let a girl marry 3 men?’
C5-9 what does Lucy say about the nobility of men after she receives 3 proposals?
‘why are men so noble when we women are so little worthy of them?’
C5-9 what character has a phonograph diary?
Seward
C5-9 what does Seward diagnose renfield as? why?
‘zoophagous’ (life eating)
he eats flies and birds that he collects
C5-9 what is the storm that hits Whitby described as?
‘one of the greatest and suddenest storms on record’
C5-9 when the Demeter is boarded what is found on the ship - the fact that the ship found its way to the harbour despite the whole crew being dead is described as what?
no one apart from the captain tied to the helm
a ‘miracle’
C5-9 what cargo was the ship the Demeter carrying?
50 boxes of earth
C5-9 after the Demeter arrives which old character is killed - what appears to be the cause of his death? what expression does he have on his face when dead?
‘fright’/’his neck being broken’
‘look of fear and horror’
C5-9 what habit does Lucy acquire?
somnambulism
C5-9 what is Lucy wearing in the churchyard that mina finds her in? what kind of state is Lucy in?
‘only her nightdress’
a trance-like state
C5-9 what does renfield say about his ‘Master’ when he tries to escape?
‘I am here to do Your bidding Master. I am Your slave’ (notice the capitalisation - makes the master seem godly)
