Year 12 gothic book quotes (Bloody Chamber and Dracula)

SC - quote on male desire

"child of his desire"

SC - characterisation of the Countess

"scarlett heels and spurs"

SC - First words

"Midwinter- invincible, immaculate"

WA - description as the other

"nothing about her human"

WA - Duke as the other

"less animal than man"

WA - how the duke is given humanity

"Brought into being by her soft, moist, gentle tongue,finally the face of the Duke"

LOTHOL - soldier's innocence

"Special quality of virginity"

LOTHOL - soldier's age

"So young"

LOTHOL - Countess' duality

"A girl who is both death and the maiden"

LOTHOL - Countess' entrapment

"Under the eyes of the portraits of her demented and atrocious ancestors"

LOTHOL - what did countess want

"She would like to be human"

LOTHOL - her beauty

"She is so beautiful she is unnatural"

COW - Little red riding hood's purity

"Within the invisible pentacle of her virginity"

COW - Little red riding hood as dominant

"She knew that she was nobody's meat"

COW - Little red riding as sexually dominant

"Ripped off his shirt for him"

COW - she emasculates the wolf and becomes sexually monstrous

"Lay his fearful head down upon her lap"

TBC - intertextual line

"All the better to see you"

TBC - description of Marquis

"Leonine"

"Dark mane"

TBC - sexually curious

"I sensed in myself a potentiality for corruption that took my breath away"

TBC - what does she call the chamber

"Little museum of his peversity"

TBC - the further she go into the chamber

"It seemed a garment of that innocence of mine for which he has lusted fell away"

TBC - saved by...

"Maternal telepathy"

TBC - ...... could cover the scar

"No paint not powder"

DRACULA - Jonathan lay in

"In agony is this delightful anticipation"

DRACULA - Jonathan felt a...

"Wicked burning desire"

DRACULA - Van Helsing says Mina has a ... and a

"A man's brain" & "a woman's heart"

DRACULA - Religious description of Mina

"One of god's women, fashioned by his own hand"

DRACULA - Mina wishes to .... to Jonathan

"To be of use"

DRACULA - Mina as maternal

"I stroked his hair as though he were my own child"

DRACULA - when infected she becomes

"Unclean! Unclean!"

DRACULA - Mina's mark

"I must bear this mark of shame upon my forehead until the judgement day"

DRACULA - Mina made an outcast

"She with her goodness and purity and faith, was outcast from God"

DRACULA - Lucy and poligomy

"Why can't a girl marry three men, or as many want her"

DRACULA - In the grave yard, Lucy was...

"moaning" , "sighing" and "groaning"

DRACULA - Lucy goes from

"From purity to voluptuous wantonness"

DRACULA - Lucy is sustained by

"Blood of four strong men"

DRACULA - Lucy as sexually monstrous femme fatale

"Come to me arthur" "my arms are hungry for you"

DRACULA - In death, Lucy returns to

"Sweetness and purity"

DRAUCLA - The three female vampires as sexually forceful

"Deliberate voluptuousness"

DRACULA - female vampires both tempting and terrifying

"Both thrilling and repulsive"

DRAUCLA - female vampires as animalistic

"She licked her lips like an animal"

DRACULA - female vampires rejection of maternity

"Half-smothered child"

DRACULA - count's physical description

"His face was strong...aquiline...bushy hair"

DRACULA - the counts voice was

"metallic"

DRACULA - the count as feminine

"Forcing her face down on his bosom"

DRACULA - count and the allusion to Judas' betrayal

"With a smile that Judas in hell might be proud of"

DRACULA - The count's eyes

"His eyes blazed with a sort of demonic fury"

DRACULA - count quotes the bible

"Flesh to my flesh, blood to my blood, kin to my kin"

DRACULA - Van Helsing as a moral opposite to the count

"Noble work...for mankind"

DRACULA - Van Helsing on what science can't explain

"It is the fault of our science that it wants to explain it all"

DRACULA - Van Helsing on religion

"We have on our side... the aid of all the consecrated things. The crucifix is high and the wafer is high, and the smile of Him who died is high."

TBC - Marquis calls his pornography

his "prayer books"

DRACULA - Lucy's appetite

"an appetite like a cormorant"

TBC - her transgression is described as

"like Eve"

DRACULA - Renfield to count

"I am here to do Your bidding, Master. I am Your slave"