Theme : Desire Flashcards

(45 cards)

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Types of desire

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Predatory desire of men
= Dracula and TEK

Sexual desire
= Harker and TBC marquis

Female desire to transgress social norms
= Lucy and TCOW

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“This man…”

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“…belongs to me!”

Dracula

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“There was something so…”

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“…panther-like in his movement”

Harker about Dracula

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“My revenge…”

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“…has just begun!”

Dracula

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“Your girls…”

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“…that you all love are mine already”

Dracula

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“Others shall yet…”

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“…be mine”

Dracula

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“His eyes flamed red…”

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“…with devilish passion”

Dracula

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“His eyes blazed…”

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“…with a sort of demoniac fury”

Dracula

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“Made a grab…”

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“…at my throat”

Harker about Dracula

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“He lays me down on…”

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“…his bed of rustling straw”

TEK

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“He strips me to…”

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“…my last nakedness”

TEK

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“Erl-King will…”

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“…do you grievous harm”

TEK

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“He came alive from…”

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“…the desire of the woods”

TEK

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14
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“Your green eye…”

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“…is a reducing chamber”

TEK

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“There are some eyes…”

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“…that can eat you”

TEK

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“He lays upon me…”

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“…his irrevocable hand”

TEK

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“The woods enclose…”

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“…and then enclose again”

TEK

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18
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“I felt in my heart…”

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“…a wicked, burning desire that they would kiss me with those red lips”

Harker about bride sisters

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“There was a deliberate voluptuousness…”

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“…that was both thrilling and repulsive”

Harker about bride sisters

20
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“I closed my eyes…”

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“…in a languorous ecstasy and waited”

Harker about bride sisters

21
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“The girl…”

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“…went on her knees and bent over me”

Harker about bride sisters

22
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The Marquis did what to the girl

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“He stripped me”

TBC

23
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“His movements seemed to me…”

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“…deliberately coarse, vulgar”

TBC

24
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“A dozen husbands…”

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“…impaled a dozen brides”

TBC

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“The assessing…”
“…eye of a connoisseur” TBC
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“His appetite…”
“…did not diminish” TBC
27
“The sweetness was turned to…”
“…adamantine, heartless cruelty, and the purity to voluptuous wantonness” Lucy
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“Why can’t they let a girl…”
“…marry three men?” Lucy
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“Her eyes blazed with…”
“…unholy light” Lucy
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“Come to me Arthur. Leave…”
“…these others and come to me” Lucy
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What did Lucy do to the child
She was “growling over it as a dog growls over a bone” Lucy
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“She knew she was…”
“…nobody’s meat” TCOW
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“She knew she was in danger…”
“…of death” TCOW
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“She stands and moves within…”
“…the invisible pentacle of her own virginity” TCOW
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“She is…”
“…afraid of nothing” TCOW
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“She is an unbroken…”
“…egg” TCOW
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“Commonplaces of a…”
“…rustic seduction” TCOW (when he says “a kiss” for the bet)
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“Between the paws…”
“…of the tender wolf” TCOW
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“She will lay his…”
“…fearful head on her lap” TCOW
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Sheets on the Marquis
The Marquis is a sadist in terms of his sexual practices and his control of narrative
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Salas on femininity
Carter endeavours to show that feminists is a dark construction
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Linkin on TEK
Subverts the romantic view on nature as a source of enlightenment and life by making a source of confinement and death
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Stevenson on vampires and human desire
The actions of a vampire can be simplified down to a lack of control and perversion of human desires and instinct
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Gates on Lucy
Lucy is an inversion of the modest and virtuous Victorian woman
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Roberts on Harker
Harker is the male character whose masculine integrity is most directly challenged