Theme : Outsiders / Otherness Flashcards
Types of otherness
Supernatural otherness
= Dracula and vampire from LOTHOL
Gendered otherness
= Lucy and TBC girl
Psychological / social other
= Renfield and wolf Alice
“I long to…”
“…go through the crowded streets of your mighty London”
Dracula
“There was something so…”
“…panther-like in the movement”
About Dracula
“Demoniac…”
“…fury”
“He eats not…”
“…as others”
“Our ways…”
“…are not your ways”
Dracula
“Something so…”
“…unhuman”
Dracula
“Criminal and…”
“…of criminal type”
Dracula
“Peculiarly…”
“…sharp and white teeth”
“She is so beautiful…”
“…she is unnatural”
LOTHOL
“Her beauty is…”
“…an abnormality, a deformity”
LOTHOL
“She will invite you…”
“…with smiles and gestures”
LOTHOL
“The countess wants…”
“…fresh meat”
LOTHOL
“Desolate…”
“…stillness of her eyes”
LOTHOL
“The blood on the Countess’s cheeks…”
“…will be mixed with tears”
LOTHOL
“Languorous…”
“…voluptuous grace”
Lucy
[to arthur] “my arms…”
“…are hungry for you”
“Callous as…”
“…a devil”
Lucy
“Lucy’s eyes…”
“…unclean and full of hell fire”
“The child… …”
“…growling over it”
Lucy
“The sweetness was turned to…”
“…adamantine, heartless cruelty”
Lucy
Lucy used to have what?
“Pure gentle orbs”
Arthur “Struck with…”
“…all his might”
Lucy’s death
“Ceased to be her child…”
“…in becoming his wife”
TBC
“A dozen husbands…”
“…impaled a dozen brides”
“There is a striking resemblance between…”
“…the act of love and the ministrations of a torturer”
TBC
“My dark…”
“…newborn curiosity”
TBC
“The blood…”
“…is the life!”
Renfield
How is Renfield described
“Madman”
Renfield has a what
“Child-brain”
“Zoophagous…”
“…maniac”
Renfield
“I am here to…”
“…do your bidding Master”
Renfield to Dracula
“I am your…”
“…slave”
Renfield to Dracula
“I am no lunatic in a mad fit…”
“…but a sane man fighting for his soul”
Renfield
“I want no souls…”
“…life is all i want”
Renfield
“Nothing about her is human…”
“…except she is not a Wolf”
Wolf Alice
“She perceived an essential difference between…”
“…herself and her surroundings”
Wolf Alice
“Her first blood…”
“…bewildered her”
Wolf Alice
“She does not…”
“…understand their language”
What does Moore say about Dracula’s otherness?
Count Dracula embodies a dangerous sense of otherness
What does Hughes say about Dracula
The count is simultaneously a historical and modern threat
Punter about Renfield
Renfield is a parody of evolution
Duran on vampires
Vampires are not glorified, romanticised or portrayed as anything but vile, hellish beings
Simpson about Lucy
Lucy represents the good and evil in women
What does Gates say about carter and vampirism
Carter presents vampirism as a type of imprisonment
Buzwell on passivity and death
Passivity in a heroine was not merely undesirable, it was also likely to result in her death
Bidisha on wolf alice
Presents a new and liberated female standard
