Dracula quotes Flashcards
(22 cards)
Madness and degeneracy
“His madness foiled his reason”
Seward and Scientific discovery of madness
“what a wonderful power he must have over his patients”
“I seemed to wish to keep him at the point of his madness”
Re-emergence of the industrial gothic, this was as a result of the fear that changes in society were imminent
“I have come to known your great England, and to know her is to love her”
Dracula’s procreative qualities
“new and ever-widening circle of semi-demons”
Mina and her scar v protagonist TBC and her scar
“Unclean! Unclean! Even the almighty shuns my polluted flesh” v “Hides my shame”, “like the Caste mark of the Brahmin woman or the mark of Cain”
What did Brian Murphy say about Mina being a New Woman
“it is absurd to complain of the excessively ‘Victorian’ treatment of Mina Harker. She is no Victorian; she is a mediaeval lady whose honour and virtue are protected”
How did Micheal Harvey characterise Mina and Lucy
“Dracula’s chief victims, Mina and Lucy, remind us … of other ancient and medieval examples of the sequestered princess”
What does Van Helsing say about science
It is “sceptical and selfish” and “wants to explain all”, “if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain”
Mina being attacked by Dracula
“I was bewildered, and, strangely enough, I did not want to hinder him”
What does Dracula say about the crew of light (simile)
“like sheep in a butcher’s”
Seward teasing Renfield about souls
“I don’t want an elephant’s soul, or any soul at all!”, “To hell with you and your souls! he shouted. “Why do you plague me about souls?”
Who theorised Homosociality and what is it
Sedgewick, male bonds that exist within a spectrum from platonic camaraderie to veiled homoerotic tension
Examples of homosociality in Dracula
“This man belongs to me!”, “I have come to love you, yes love you, dear boy, as Arthur”
Description of Dracula’s Castle
“vast ruined castle, from those tall black windows came no ray of light”
Otherness quote
“but a stranger in a strange land, he is no one; men known him not”
“here I am noble […] I am master”.
“what manner of man is this, or what manner of creature is it in the semblance of a man?”
Mr Swales on death
“death be all that we can rightly depend on”
Manly blood
“a brave man’s blood is the best thing on this earth when a woman is in trouble”
“and man is weak”
Belief
“I want you to believe… to believe in things that you cannot.”
“Savage delight”
“my love passed into hate and loathing”
Maternal instincts
“We women have something of the mother in us”
19th century
“in the midst of our scientific, matter-of-fact nineteenth century”
Mina and purity
“she with all her goodness and purity and faith, was outcast from God”
