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Theme : Mystery Flashcards

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Types of mystery

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Dual nature of characters
= Dracula and the Marquis

Mystery surrounding female characters
= Lucy and the countess

Mysterious settings
= Dracula’s castle and Marquis’ castle / TEK forest

Mystery of supernatural threats
= Dracula and TEK

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“I am Dracula, and I…”

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“…bid you welcome”

Dracula

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“Enter freely and…”

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“…of your own will!”

Dracula

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“You are my…”

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“…guest”

Dracula

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“The count’s courteous welcome seemed to have…”

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“…dissipated all my doubts and fears”

Harker

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“He can transform…”

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“…himself to wolf”

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“He can be…”

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“…as bat”

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“He can come…”

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“…in mist”

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“His eyes blazed…”

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“…with a sort of demoniac fury”

Harker

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“With the assessing…”

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“…eye of a connoisseur”

TBC marquis

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“There is a striking resemblance between…”

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“…the act of love and the ministrations of a torturer”

TBC

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“He seemed to me…”

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“…like a lily”

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“Pure silver…”

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“…in his dark mane”

TBC

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“He had invited me to…”

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“…join this gallery of beautiful women”

TBC

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“I longed for him.”

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“And he disgusted me”

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“Her eyes blazed…”

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“…with unholy light”

Lucy

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“The sweetness was turned to…”

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“…adamantine, heartless cruelty”

Lucy

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“She drew back…”

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“…with an angry snarl”

Lucy

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“Lucy is so…”

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“…sweet and sensitive”

Lucy

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“She is a sweet…”

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“…good soul”

Lucy

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“Her beauty is…”

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“…an abnormality, a deformity”

LOTHOL

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“She has the mysterious…”

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“…solitude of ambiguous states”

LOTHOL

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“She herself is…”

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“…a haunted house”

LOTHOL

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“She would like to…”

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“…be human”

LOTHOL

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“The castle is on the very edge of…”

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“…a terrible precipice”

Dracula’s castle

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“The shadows…”

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“…are many”

Dracula’s castle

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“The castle is a…”

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“…veritable prison, and i am a prisoner”

Dracula’s castle

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“Frowning walls…”

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“…and dark window openings”

Dracula’s castle

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“A vast…”

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“…ruined castle”

Dracula’s castle

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“The faery…”

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“…solitude of the place”

TBC castle

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“That lovely, sad…”

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“…sea-siren of a place”

TBC castle

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“This lovely prison of which…”

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“…I was both the inmate and the mistress”

TBC castle

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“That castle…a mysterious…”

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“…amphibious place”

TBC castle

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“The woods enclose…”

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“…and then enclose again”

TEK forest

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“The woods…”

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“…swallow you up”

TEK forest

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“Subtle…”

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“…labyrinth”

TEK forest

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“He came alive from the…”

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“…desire of the woods”

TEK forest

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“He can transform…”

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“…himself to a wolf”

Dracula

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“He can be…”

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“…as bat”

Dracula

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“He can come in…”

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“…mist which he create”

Dracula

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“The strength in his hand…”

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“…of twenty men”

Dracula

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“He throws…”

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“…no shadow”

Dracula

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“He came alive from…”

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“…the desire of the woods”

TEK

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“Erl-King will…”

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“…do you grievous harm”

TEK

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“Your green eye…”

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“…is a reducing chamber”

TEK

46
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“There are some eyes…”

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“…can eat you”

TEK

47
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How is TEK described?

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“Unnatural”

48
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Deinz on Dracula’s castle

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Not even his castle can be said to belong to one place

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Punter on Dracula

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Dracula himself is a kind of figure for the anti Christ

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O’Kelly on orthodoxy

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Dracula and the bloody chamber challenge us to cross the boundaries of orthodoxy

(Mystery isn’t orthodox)

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Kidd on old buildings

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Old buildings have become a sort of gothic short hand that signifies dominance, barbarity and the dead hand of authority

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O’Kelly on setting

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The settings of Dracula and the blood chamber externalise the inner demons of the characters

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Vandermeer on carter’s characters

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Her characters are forever escaping socially, mentally or physically, the traps laid by men

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Rumsey on carter’s labyrinths

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Carter’s labyrinths are not simply physical spaces but also psychological ones

(Link to TEK quote on labyrinths)

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O’Kelly on Carter’s monster

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We are encouraged to empathise with the monster

LOTHOL

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