Chapter 2 Quotes Flashcards
(39 cards)
‘In the gloom the courtyard looked of considerable size, and as several dark ways led from it under great round…
arches it perhaps seemed bigger than it really is.’
Gothic setting
About Dracula
‘His hand actually seemed like a steel vice that could have ….
crushed mine if he had chosen.’
power, strength of Dracula, could crush metal
‘I stood close to a great door, old and studded with large iron nails and set in a …
projecting doorway of massive stone.’
‘disappeared down one of the…
dark openings.’
‘frowning walls and dark…
window openings.’
a scary gothic setting
‘Solicitor’s Clerk! Mina would not like that….
Solicitor.’
He tries to prove himself worthy of love through social status of being a solicitor
‘Then there was the sound of rattling chains and the clanking of massive bolts drawn back. A key was turned with the …
loud grating sound of long disuse, and the great door swung back.’
sensory and intimidating introduction to Dracula, very gothic
‘a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot,…
without a single speck of colour about him anywhere.’
His dark clothes show his bat like ways and the darkness within him.
Dracula
‘Welcome to my house! Enter freely and…
of your own will.’
This is how he traps him
‘As cold as ice- more like the hand of a ….
dead than a living man.’
ironic, he is the living dead. the cold hands represents his cold heart.
‘a small octagonal room lit by a single lamp and seemingly…
without a window of any sort.’
like a prison cell
Dracula
‘I have dined already and I do not …
sup.’
he drinks blood does not eat
‘a bottle of Tokay of which I had…
two glasses.’
he recounts all that he drinks, this way he can not put what he has seen down to drunkenness.
’ His face was a strong- a very strong- aquiline, with high bridge of the thin nose and peculiarly arched nostrils; with lofty…
domed forehead, and hair growing scantily round the temples.’
‘The mouth, so far as I could see was fixed and cruel looking, with peculiarly sharp white teeth; these protruded over the lips, whose …
remarkable ruddiness showed astonishing vitality in a man of his years.’
red from blood
‘his ears were pale and at the tops extremely…
pointed.’
bat like, inhuman, like devil horns
‘the general effect was one of extraordinary…
pallor.’
‘coarse-broad, with squat fingers. Strange to say, there were hairs in the centre of the palm. The nails were long and fine, and cut to a …
sharp point.’
he has animal like hands with almost claws, he is wolf like.
‘protuberant…
teeth.’
‘the howling of many wolves. The Count’s eyes gleamed, and he said:- ‘Listen to them- the children of …
the night. What music they make.’
Dracula sees the wolves almost like children, he controls them.
Dracula
‘you dwellers in the city cannot enter into the feeling of the…
hunter.’
he is like a hunter, he hunts down people to kill
Dracula
‘so sleep well and dream…
well.’
Freudian link
‘I think strange things which I dare not confess to my own soul. God keep me, if only for the sake of …
those dear to me.’
a prayer
‘the table service is of gold, and so beautifully wrought that it must be of …
immense value.’
Dracula has wealth
