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Theme : Desire Flashcards

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Proverbs and Idioms flashcards
1
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Types of desire

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Predatory desire of men
= Dracula and TEK

Sexual desire
= Harker and TBC marquis

Female desire to transgress social norms
= Lucy and TCOW

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“This man…”

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“…belongs to me!”

Dracula

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“There was something so…”

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“…panther-like in his movement”

Harker about Dracula

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“My revenge…”

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“…has just begun!”

Dracula

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“Your girls…”

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“…that you all love are mine already”

Dracula

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“Others shall yet…”

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“…be mine”

Dracula

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“His eyes flamed red…”

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“…with devilish passion”

Dracula

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“His eyes blazed…”

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“…with a sort of demoniac fury”

Dracula

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“Made a grab…”

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“…at my throat”

Harker about Dracula

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“He lays me down on…”

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“…his bed of rustling straw”

TEK

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“He strips me to…”

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“…my last nakedness”

TEK

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“Erl-King will…”

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“…do you grievous harm”

TEK

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“He came alive from…”

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“…the desire of the woods”

TEK

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“Your green eye…”

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“…is a reducing chamber”

TEK

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“There are some eyes…”

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“…that can eat you”

TEK

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“He lays upon me…”

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“…his irrevocable hand”

TEK

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“The woods enclose…”

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“…and then enclose again”

TEK

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“I felt in my heart…”

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“…a wicked, burning desire that they would kiss me with those red lips”

Harker about bride sisters

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“There was a deliberate voluptuousness…”

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“…that was both thrilling and repulsive”

Harker about bride sisters

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“I closed my eyes…”

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“…in a languorous ecstasy and waited”

Harker about bride sisters

21
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“The girl…”

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“…went on her knees and bent over me”

Harker about bride sisters

22
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The Marquis did what to the girl

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“He stripped me”

TBC

23
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“His movements seemed to me…”

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“…deliberately coarse, vulgar”

TBC

24
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“A dozen husbands…”

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“…impaled a dozen brides”

TBC

25
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“The assessing…”

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“…eye of a connoisseur”

TBC

26
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“His appetite…”

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“…did not diminish”

TBC

27
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“The sweetness was turned to…”

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“…adamantine, heartless cruelty, and the purity to voluptuous wantonness”

Lucy

28
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“Why can’t they let a girl…”

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“…marry three men?”

Lucy

29
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“Her eyes blazed with…”

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“…unholy light”

Lucy

30
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“Come to me Arthur. Leave…”

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“…these others and come to me”

Lucy

31
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What did Lucy do to the child

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She was “growling over it as a dog growls over a bone”

Lucy

32
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“She knew she was…”

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“…nobody’s meat”

TCOW

33
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“She knew she was in danger…”

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“…of death”

TCOW

34
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“She stands and moves within…”

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“…the invisible pentacle of her own virginity”

TCOW

35
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“She is…”

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“…afraid of nothing”

TCOW

36
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“She is an unbroken…”

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“…egg”

TCOW

37
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“Commonplaces of a…”

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“…rustic seduction”

TCOW (when he says “a kiss” for the bet)

38
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“Between the paws…”

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“…of the tender wolf”

TCOW

39
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“She will lay his…”

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“…fearful head on her lap”

TCOW

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Sheets on the Marquis

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The Marquis is a sadist in terms of his sexual practices and his control of narrative

41
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Salas on femininity

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Carter endeavours to show that feminists is a dark construction

42
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Linkin on TEK

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Subverts the romantic view on nature as a source of enlightenment and life by making a source of confinement and death

43
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Stevenson on vampires and human desire

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The actions of a vampire can be simplified down to a lack of control and perversion of human desires and instinct

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Gates on Lucy

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Lucy is an inversion of the modest and virtuous Victorian woman

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Roberts on Harker

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Harker is the male character whose masculine integrity is most directly challenged

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