Theme : Women Flashcards
3 ways women are presented
Women as victims of male dominance
= Mina and TBC protagonist
Women as agents of sexual power
= bride sisters and LOTHOL
Women as victims turned predators
= Lucy and TTB
“You are too precious to us…”
“to have such risk”
“Though it was a bitter pill for me to swallow…”
“…I could say nothing”
Mina
“Forcing her face…”
“…down his bosom”
Dracula to Mina
“Her white nightdress…”
“…smeared with blood”
“Scream so wild, so…”
“…ear-piercing, so despairing”
“Helpless…”
“…attitude”
Mina
“Her eyes were mad…”
“…with terror”
Mina
“And so my purchaser…”
“…unwrapped his bargain”
TBC
“He was much…”
“…older than I”
TBC
“I had, in some way…”
“…ceased to be her child in becoming his wife”
TBC
What did the Marquis do to her
“He stripped me”
“A choker of…”
“…rubies…like an extraordinarily split throat”
TBC
“A dozen husbands…”
“…impaled a dozen brides”
TBC
“I clung to him as though…”
“…only the one who had inflicted the pain could comfort me for suffering it”
TBC
“A deliberate voluptuousness…”
“…that was both thrilling and repulsive”
Bride sisters
“Brilliant white teeth that shone like…”
“…pearls against the ruby of their voluptuous lips”
Bride sisters
“The girl went on her knees, and…”
“…bent over me, simply gloating”
Bride sisters
“Licked her lips…”
“…like an animal”
Bride sisters
“Silvery…”
“…musical laughter”
Bride sisters
“There are kisses…”
“…for us all”
Bride sisters
“Her beauty is a symptom…”
“…of her disorder”
LOTHOL
“She is so beautiful…”
“…she is unnatural”
LOTHOL
“Her beauty is an…”
“…abnormality”
LOTHOL
