Theme : Mystery Flashcards
Types of mystery
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
“I am Dracula, and I…”
“…bid you welcome”
Dracula
“Enter freely and…”
“…of your own will!”
Dracula
“You are my…”
“…guest”
Dracula
“The count’s courteous welcome seemed to have…”
“…dissipated all my doubts and fears”
Harker
“He can transform…”
“…himself to wolf”
“He can be…”
“…as bat”
“He can come…”
“…in mist”
“His eyes blazed…”
“…with a sort of demoniac fury”
Harker
“With the assessing…”
“…eye of a connoisseur”
TBC marquis
“There is a striking resemblance between…”
“…the act of love and the ministrations of a torturer”
TBC
“He seemed to me…”
“…like a lily”
“Pure silver…”
“…in his dark mane”
TBC
“He had invited me to…”
“…join this gallery of beautiful women”
TBC
“I longed for him.”
“And he disgusted me”
“Her eyes blazed…”
“…with unholy light”
Lucy
“The sweetness was turned to…”
“…adamantine, heartless cruelty”
Lucy
“She drew back…”
“…with an angry snarl”
Lucy
“Lucy is so…”
“…sweet and sensitive”
Lucy
“She is a sweet…”
“…good soul”
Lucy
“Her beauty is…”
“…an abnormality, a deformity”
LOTHOL
“She has the mysterious…”
“…solitude of ambiguous states”
LOTHOL
“She herself is…”
“…a haunted house”
LOTHOL
“She would like to…”
“…be human”
LOTHOL
“The castle is on the very edge of…”
“…a terrible precipice”
Dracula’s castle
“The shadows…”
“…are many”
Dracula’s castle
“The castle is a…”
“…veritable prison, and i am a prisoner”
Dracula’s castle
“Frowning walls…”
“…and dark window openings”
Dracula’s castle
“A vast…”
“…ruined castle”
Dracula’s castle
“The faery…”
“…solitude of the place”
TBC castle
“That lovely, sad…”
“…sea-siren of a place”
TBC castle
“This lovely prison of which…”
“…I was both the inmate and the mistress”
TBC castle
“That castle…a mysterious…”
“…amphibious place”
TBC castle
“The woods enclose…”
“…and then enclose again”
TEK forest
“The woods…”
“…swallow you up”
TEK forest
“Subtle…”
“…labyrinth”
TEK forest
“He came alive from the…”
“…desire of the woods”
TEK forest
“He can transform…”
“…himself to a wolf”
Dracula
“He can be…”
“…as bat”
Dracula
“He can come in…”
“…mist which he create”
Dracula
“The strength in his hand…”
“…of twenty men”
Dracula
“He throws…”
“…no shadow”
Dracula
“He came alive from…”
“…the desire of the woods”
TEK
“Erl-King will…”
“…do you grievous harm”
TEK
“Your green eye…”
“…is a reducing chamber”
TEK
“There are some eyes…”
“…can eat you”
TEK
How is TEK described?
“Unnatural”
Deinz on Dracula’s castle
Not even his castle can be said to belong to one place
Punter on Dracula
Dracula himself is a kind of figure for the anti Christ
O’Kelly on orthodoxy
Dracula and the bloody chamber challenge us to cross the boundaries of orthodoxy
(Mystery isn’t orthodox)
Kidd on old buildings
Old buildings have become a sort of gothic short hand that signifies dominance, barbarity and the dead hand of authority
O’Kelly on setting
The settings of Dracula and the blood chamber externalise the inner demons of the characters
Vandermeer on carter’s characters
Her characters are forever escaping socially, mentally or physically, the traps laid by men
Rumsey on carter’s labyrinths
Carter’s labyrinths are not simply physical spaces but also psychological ones
(Link to TEK quote on labyrinths)
O’Kelly on Carter’s monster
We are encouraged to empathise with the monster
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