Theme : Desire Flashcards
Types of desire
Predatory desire of men
= Dracula and TEK
Sexual desire
= Harker and TBC marquis
Female desire to transgress social norms
= Lucy and TCOW
“This man…”
“…belongs to me!”
Dracula
“There was something so…”
“…panther-like in his movement”
Harker about Dracula
“My revenge…”
“…has just begun!”
Dracula
“Your girls…”
“…that you all love are mine already”
Dracula
“Others shall yet…”
“…be mine”
Dracula
“His eyes flamed red…”
“…with devilish passion”
Dracula
“His eyes blazed…”
“…with a sort of demoniac fury”
Dracula
“Made a grab…”
“…at my throat”
Harker about Dracula
“He lays me down on…”
“…his bed of rustling straw”
TEK
“He strips me to…”
“…my last nakedness”
TEK
“Erl-King will…”
“…do you grievous harm”
TEK
“He came alive from…”
“…the desire of the woods”
TEK
“Your green eye…”
“…is a reducing chamber”
TEK
“There are some eyes…”
“…that can eat you”
TEK
“He lays upon me…”
“…his irrevocable hand”
TEK
“The woods enclose…”
“…and then enclose again”
TEK
“I felt in my heart…”
“…a wicked, burning desire that they would kiss me with those red lips”
Harker about bride sisters
“There was a deliberate voluptuousness…”
“…that was both thrilling and repulsive”
Harker about bride sisters
“I closed my eyes…”
“…in a languorous ecstasy and waited”
Harker about bride sisters
“The girl…”
“…went on her knees and bent over me”
Harker about bride sisters
The Marquis did what to the girl
“He stripped me”
TBC
“His movements seemed to me…”
“…deliberately coarse, vulgar”
TBC
“A dozen husbands…”
“…impaled a dozen brides”
TBC
“The assessing…”
“…eye of a connoisseur”
TBC
“His appetite…”
“…did not diminish”
TBC
“The sweetness was turned to…”
“…adamantine, heartless cruelty, and the purity to voluptuous wantonness”
Lucy
“Why can’t they let a girl…”
“…marry three men?”
Lucy
“Her eyes blazed with…”
“…unholy light”
Lucy
“Come to me Arthur. Leave…”
“…these others and come to me”
Lucy
What did Lucy do to the child
She was “growling over it as a dog growls over a bone”
Lucy
“She knew she was…”
“…nobody’s meat”
TCOW
“She knew she was in danger…”
“…of death”
TCOW
“She stands and moves within…”
“…the invisible pentacle of her own virginity”
TCOW
“She is…”
“…afraid of nothing”
TCOW
“She is an unbroken…”
“…egg”
TCOW
“Commonplaces of a…”
“…rustic seduction”
TCOW (when he says “a kiss” for the bet)
“Between the paws…”
“…of the tender wolf”
TCOW
“She will lay his…”
“…fearful head on her lap”
TCOW
Sheets on the Marquis
The Marquis is a sadist in terms of his sexual practices and his control of narrative
Salas on femininity
Carter endeavours to show that feminists is a dark construction
Linkin on TEK
Subverts the romantic view on nature as a source of enlightenment and life by making a source of confinement and death
Stevenson on vampires and human desire
The actions of a vampire can be simplified down to a lack of control and perversion of human desires and instinct
Gates on Lucy
Lucy is an inversion of the modest and virtuous Victorian woman
Roberts on Harker
Harker is the male character whose masculine integrity is most directly challenged
