The Bloody Chamber/ Dorian Gray fear and terror Flashcards
Quotes- Fear and terror- (23 cards)
“I found myself face to face with …”
“I found myself face to face with the young man whose personality had so strangely stirred me. We were quite close, almost touching … it was reckless of me”
“There was a look of fear …”
“There was a look of fear in his eyes … his finely chiseled nostrils quivered and some hidden nerve shook the scarlet of his lips and left them trembling”
“You want to exhibit …”
“You want to exhibit it? … a strange sense of terror creeping over him”
“Time seemed to him to be …”
“Time seemed to him to be crawling with feet of lead, while he by monstrous winds was being swept towards the jagged edge of some black cleft of precipice”
“The preceding night …”
“The preceding night crept with silent blood- stained feet into his brain”
“It [the murder] was a thing …”
“It was a thing to be driven out of the mind, to be drugged with poppies, to be strangled lest it might strangle one itself “
“Sick with a …”
“Sic with a wild terror of dying”
“A cry of joy …”
“A cry of joy broke from his lips. The man who had been shot in the thicket was James vane”
“It is the coming of death that …”
“It is the coming of death that terrifies me. Its monstrous wings seem to wheel in the leaden air around me”
“In a wild hour of …”
“In a wild hour of madness he had killed his friend! … Each hideous detail came back to him with added horror”
“I felt no fear …”
“I felt no fear, no raising of the hair on the back of my neck, no prickling of the thumbs”
“No fear; but a …”
“No fear; but a hesitation, a holding of the spiritual breath”
“Burst into a tumult of …”
“Burst into a tumult of sobbing … a dreadful anguish to know I, too, was one of them”
“He was far more …”
“He was far more frightened of me than I was of him”
“He lays me down on the bed of …”
“He lays me down on the bed of rustling straw where I lie at the mercy of his huge hands”
“When I realized what the …”
“When I realized what the Erl King meant to do t me, I was shaken with a terrible fear”
“Her horrible …”
“Her horrible reluctance for the role”
“The blood on her …”
“The blood on her cheeks will be mixed with tears”
“He was disturbed, almost …”
“He was disturbed, almost repelled, by her extraordinary fleshy mouth”
“He feels unease …”
“He feels unease, he cannot feel terror”
“She is afraid “
“She is afraid of nothing”
“Since her fear did her …”
“Since her fear did her no good, she ceased to be afraid”
“The girl burst out …”
“The girl burst out laughing: she knew she was nobody’s meat”
