Theme : Monstrosity Flashcards
Types of monstrosity
Supernatural monstrosity
= Dracula and the erl king
Female monstrosity
= Lucy and LOTHOL
Sexual monstrosity
= Dracula / bride sisters and the snow child
“There was no…”
“…reflection of him in the mirror”
Harker about Dracula
“More like the hand of…”
“…a dead than a living man”
Harker about Dracula
“His eyes blazed…”
“…with a sort of demoniac fury”
Harker about Dracula
“Something so…”
“…unhuman”
Harker about Dracula
“It is like a sort of…”
“…awful nightmare”
Harker before entering the castle
“Faint…”
“…flickering blue flame”
Harker
“There are some eyes…”
“…that can eat you”
TEK
“Erl-King will do…”
“…you grievous harm”
“An air of…”
“…impending death”
TEK
“She will be trapped…”
“…in her own illusion”
TEK
“His magic lasso of…”
“…inhuman music”
“Your green eye is…”
“…a reducing chamber”
TEK
“The numinous…”
“…phosphorescence of the eyes of lycanthropes”
TEK
“Ghostly…”
“…chalkily pale”
Lucy
“Eyes unclean…”
“…and full of hellfire”
Lucy
“Lips were crimson…”
“…with fresh blood”
Lucy
Lucy is stripped of her…
“Sweetness and purity”
What did Lucy do as a reaction of van helsing’s crucifix
“Recoiled”
A child was…
“Flung to the ground”
“Callous as…”
“…a devil”
Lucy
“There was something…”
“…diabolically sweet in her tones”
Lucy as a vampire
“She becomes…”
“…ravenous”
LOTHOL
“Her beauty is a symptom…”
“…of her disorder”
LOTHOL
“She would like…”
“…to be human”
LOTHOL
“Delicious crunch of…”
“…fragile bones”
LOTHOL
“The blood on the Countess’…”
“…cheeks will be mixed with tears”
LOTHOL
“In death she looked…”
“…fully human”
LOTHOL
“A burning desire that…”
“…they would kiss me with those red lips”
Harker about bride sisters
“A deliberate voluptuousness…”
“…which was both thrilling and repulsive”
Harker about bride sisters
“I closed my eyes…”
“…in a languorous ecstasy”
Harker about bride sisters
“Brilliant white teeth that shone like…”
“…pearls against the ruby of their voluptuous lips”
Harker about bride sisters
“Forcing her face…”
“…down on his bosom”
Dracula to Mina
“Her white nightdress…”
“…smeared with blood”
Seward about Mina when bitten by dracula
“His eyes flamed red…”
“…with devilish passion”
Dracula when with Mina
“His eyes flamed red…”
“…with devilish passion”
Dracula when with Mina
“Blood which smeared…”
“…her lips and cheeks and chin”
Mina
“Her eyes were mad…”
“…with terror”
Mina
The snow child had lips…
“As red as blood”
“Thrust his…”
“…verily member into the dead girl”
“The countess…watched…”
“…him narrowly”
“She was the child of his…”
“…desire and the countess hated her”
“A bloodstain, like the trace…”
“…of a fox’s kill on the snow”
TSC
What does Moore say about the count
Count Dracula embodies a dangerous sense of otherness
Punter on blurring
Stoker blurs the line between man and beast
Roth on vampirism
Vampirism is associated not only with death, immorality and orality; it is equivalent to sexuality
Bacchilega on TSC
The snow child is a masculine fantasy
Makinen on TEK
The reader is confused, because so is she
