Dracula Quotes Flashcards
(24 cards)
What type of novel is Dracula?
- epistolary
“But there are good women still left to make life happy, good women whose lives and whose truths make good lessons for the children that are to be”
- van helsing referring to mina
- page 195
- theme of femininity, tradition etc
“It was all very ridiculous and I did not feel comfortable”
- Jonathan + his referral to the traditions in Romania - the inn keeper’s wife warns him of the spirits and crosses herself
- not feeling “comfortable” depicts an internal conflict between his rational mind + his emotions
“A brave man’s blood is the best thing for a woman in trouble”
- themes ; sexuality, gender
- quote recited by van helsing in referral to Lucy being bitten by Dracula
- clear that van helsing believes it is a man’s duty to look out for a woman + protect her - traditional gender roles
- Morris’ blood represents masculinity and strength - offered to Lucy in a time of need
- contrasts with Dracula’s foreign blood - viewed as corruptive
“The mouth was rather fixed and cruel looking”
- description of Dracula’s physiognomy
“ Lofty domed forehead”
- description of Dracula’s physiognomy
“She still advanced with a languorous, voluptuous grace”
- referral to Lucy’s transformation
- themes of sexuality
“His eyes blazed with a sort of demonic fury”
- Dracula’s description
“Twilight seemed to merge into one dark mustiness”
- early chapters of Dracula
- Johnathan about to approach Dracula’s castle
“Licking it like a dog”
- dr Seward description of renfield licking blood off the floor
“I shall be useful to Jonathan”
- Mina, early chapters - themes of gender
“Lucy westerna, but yet how changed
- Lucy’s metamorphosis into a vampire - elucidates dr Seward’s shock
- highlights how Dracula has corrupted both her soul and kindness - absorbing the last strands of her humanity
- from “sweetness” to “heartless cruelty”
- purity replaced by carelessness and indifference
Themes - metamorphosis, sexuality, transgression
“You will emerge as though you tread on air”
- van helsing tries to convince Arthur to stab Lucy
- argues he will take pleasure from killing her + perhaps restore his masculinity
“I could have done it with a savage delight”
- dr Seward - derives pleasure from killing Lucy
- oxymoron - savage and delight
“She was if, if possible, more radiantly beautiful than ever”
- page 213 - dr Seward’s desorption of Lucy’s dead body
- Victorian fascination with death
“The sweetness was turned into adamant heartless cruelty”
- Lucy’s horrid transformation into a vampire
“I am alone in this castle with those awful women. Mina is a woman and there is nought in common. They are devils of the pit!”
- Jonathan’s disgust towards the female vampires
- Mina is the image of a chaste + virtuous woman
- Jonathan distinguishes between Mina + vampires by pulling them in different categories - he was almost seduced by them
- the sexualisation of the vampires makes them unacceptable and evil
- “women” replaced with “devils”
“Peculiarly sharp white teeth”
- description of draculas appearance
“Look of triumph”
- ending - look on Dracula’s face after he gets stabbed
“The blood is life! The blood is life!”
- renfield
“Clutching the child strenuously to her breast “
- Lucy - abandoning maternal instincts
“The castle of Dracula now stood against the red sky”
- ending of dracua
“He was deathly pale, like a waxen image, and the red eyes glared with a vindictive look which i knew too well”
- description of Dracula at the end of the novel
