The Little Stranger And dracula Flashcards
“Not quite the…”
“Frowning walls….”
“Not quite the mansion I’d been recalling…sections of the lively weathered edges seemed to have fallen away completely” (belly of the house)
“Frowning walls…great door old studded with large iron nails”
(Supernatural and gothic elements)
“He seemed…”
“He is the devil…”
“He seemed to never sleep, he’d fly into rages or intonations…hardly knew him! My own son!”
“He is the devil in callous, directs the elements the storm the fod the thunder, command all meaner things”
(Supernatural and gothic elements)
“I think…”
“Lucy’s eyes…”
“I think it was gyp. Might not have been”
“Lucy’s eyes unclean and full of hellfire, Instead of the pure gentle this we knew”
“But the house…”
“Her face…”
“But the house seemed extra dim and lifeless without the dog trotting affably from room to room”
“Her face was a deathly red pallor”
(Supernatural and gothic elements)
“It was as if…”
“It was as if something had simply been waiting , quietly, patiently for the last of the family to fall”
“Unclean! Unclean! I must bear this mark forever!”
(Power sexuality and gender)
“I wanted her yes…”
“I felt in my heart…”
“I wanted her yes…but not in the way that would allow her to keep any part of herself”
“I felt in my heart a wicked burning desire that they would kiss me with those red lips”
(Power gender sexuality)
“They’d trained her…”
“She is one of the…”
“They’d trained her to be the mistress of Hundreds Hall and now Hundreds hall was dragging her down”
“She is one of gods women, too sweet and pure for this world”
- Lucy
(Power gender sexuality)
“She’d have stayed…”
“Arthur placed the point…”
“She’d have stayed if I’d ask her to, she’d have married me”
“Arthur placed the point over the heart and as I looked I could see its dent in the white flesh”
(Power gender sexuality)
“Sometimes I think it’s still…”
“I feel like one of the living…”
“Sometimes I think it’s still inside of me, like something nasty I swallowed and got stuck”
“I feel like one of the living dead I am not asleep nor awake”
(Psychological horror and madness)
“There’s something in this house…”
“He is a homicidal…”
“There’s something in this house…something that hates us. It’s got inside me and tearing me to bits”
“He is a homicidal maniac? And he will attempt to murder me”
(Psychological horror madness)
“The house I thought had absorbed the family’s…”
“The castle is a veritable…”
“The house I thought had absorbed the family’s unease and was discharging it now, in some senseless fashion”
“The castle is a veritable prison and I am a prisoner!”
(Psychological horror and madness)
“I don’t believe…”
“I suppose I must have…”
“I don’t believe in ghosts but I believe in the power of suggestion”
“I suppose I must have fallen asleep: I hope so but I fear for all that followed was startling real”
(Psychological horror and madness)
“The house it seemed to be…”
“The castle is a…”
“The house it seemed to me was forcing its own slow ruin, was reaching out with grasping fingers to pull itself apart”
“The castle is a veritable prison! And I’m prisoner!”
(Class and social change)
“They’d trained her…”
“She had a man’s…”
“Theyd trianed her to be the mistress of hundreds hall and now hundreds hall was dragging her down”
“She had a man’s brain, a woman’s heart”
(Class and social change))
“Making a grab at me…”
“Your girls that you…”
“Making a grab at me with your filthy doctor fingers how did you manage to get such a footing in this house?!”
“Your girls that you all love are mine already and through them you and others shall be mine”
(Class and social change))
“Not quite the mansion…”
“I am Dracula; and I bid…”
“Not quite the mansion I’d been recalling…sections of the lovely weathered edges seemed to have fallen away completely”
“I am Dracula; and I bid you welcome mr barker to my house”
(Class and social change))
