Key Quotes - supernatural inc. religion

key points of comparison: - use of setting - The arrivals in turn supernatural invasions - Their abilities - The seductions - The psychological - Death/exorcism - Science v Religion

Settings - Dracula’s home described by Harker; images of decay, death, contamination, sickness + infection and clear use of air as transport e.g Miasma ; “Tunnel-like passage…_____, sickly ______”

“Tunnel-like passage…deathly, sickly odour”

Settings - Dracula’s home described by Harker; images of decay, death, contamination, sickness + infection and clear use of air as transport e.g Miasma ; “Air _______ and foul…dry ______”

“Air stagnant and foul…dry miasma”

Setting in Dracula - Castles: “vast _____ castle”, Church (place of vulnerability for women): “_____ of the Abbey” 

“vast ruined castle” , “Ruins of the Abbey” 

Setting - (Part 1, chap 1); “124 was _____. Full of a _____ ______” The haunted house juxtaposes infant w/poison 

“124 was spiteful. Full of a baby’s venom”

Setting - Paul D entering the haunted house “_____ of ____…Good God…What kind of ____ you got in here?... It’s not ____ , just sad”

“Pool of red…Good God…What kind of evil you got in here?... It’s not evil, just sad”

Setting - (Part 2, chap 19); “The house was the ______ of the ______ and angry _______” when Stamp Paid approaches 124

“The house was the mumbling of the black and angry dead”

Setting - The church as a place of contemplation for Paul D; (Part 2, chap 24); “____ church”

“Tiny church”

• Dracula’s arrival

  • The ship that brought Dracula arrives at Whitby, the crew is dead but captain has left notes in Russian; last crewman chose to drown rather than face the “_____ or monster”

“fiend or monster”

Dracula’s arrival - “There was ______ abroad” indescribable presence 

“There was something abroad”

• Beloved’s arrival

  • (part 1, chap 5) “_______ out of the _____” christ-like figure

“Walked out of the water”

• Beloved’s arrival; Beloved’s fragmented and complex monologue chap 23 - liminal space of life and death // slave ship (middle passage) parallel the purgatory 

  • Patchy memories of time she is crouching among “little ____ of ____ people” 

  • She speaks of thirst and hunger, of death and sickness, and of “men without ____.” 

  • Focus on desire to “join” with the women “I want her _____”

  • She is swallowed by the woman “she _____ and swallows me” and, suddenly, she is the woman. 

  • “I come out of _____ water… I am not ______”

• “little hill of dead people” 

• “men without skin.” 

• “join” with the women “I want her face”

• “she chews and swallows me”

• “I come out of blue water… I am not dead”

Dracula’s supernatural abilities + appearance; movement

• Chapter 3; “just as a ______ moves along a _____”

• Van Helsing “cannot ______ the ______ water”

• “just as a lizard moves along a wall”

•  “cannot cross the running water” like cholera, because running water = clean + pure

Dracula’s supernatural abilities + appearance; miasmatic movement

• Van Helsing in broken English; “come in ______ which he create”, “come on _______ rays as _______ dust” to infect his victims

• “Dracula can come in mist which he create”

• “He come on moonlight rays as elemental dust”

Dracula’s supernatural abilities + appearance:

• Before Lucy’s infection; “The air full of _____, _____…. from the window”  

“The air full of specks, floating….from the window” 

Dracula’s supernatural abilities + appearance; animalistic

• Helsing “______ himself into a ______… be as bat”

• Ability to control bats; “these ______ that would come to his ____”

“Transform himself into a wolf… be as bat”, “these rats that would come to his call”

Dracula’s supernatural abilities + appearance:

• Dracula’s appearance drinking Lucy “_____ face and red, ______ eyes”

• Chap 8; Drinking blood for youth “but he has _____ young”

“White face and red, gleaming eyes”, "but he has grown young”

• Beloved supernatural abilities of strength

  • (Part 1, chap 5) “I seen her _______ up the ______ with one _______” which Denver denies, making it seem like Paul D = lying

“I seen her pick up the rocker with one hand”

• The 3 women seducing Jonathen; chapter 3

  • “______…______ fear”

  • “Wicked, _______ desire”

  • “Agony of ________ ____________”

• “Longing…deadly fear”

• “Wicked, burning desire”

• “Agony of delightful anticipation”

• Dracula - homosexual undertones?; chapter 3

  • “How ____ you ____ him! This man _______ to me”

“How dare you touch him! This man belongs to me”

• Paul D’s rape - Beloved’s supernatural power of mind control; women as seductive and corrupters:

  • (part 1, chap 11); “If he _______ like ____ wife and felt some ______ need [to investigate]…he too would be _____” biblical reference intensifies emasculation

“If he trembled like Lot’s wife and felt some womanish need [to investigate]…he too would be lost”

• Passage structure

• Mina’s mind control abilities; chapter 26

  • “_______ condition”

  • “Mina is once more our ________. Her _____ seen where we were _______”

• “Hypnotic condition”

• “Mina is once more our teacher. Her eyes seen where we were blinded”

• The psychological realm shown by the stream-of-consciousness passages intertwining Denver, Sethe and Beloved

  • (Part 2, chap 20); “_______, she my daughter. She mine.”

  • (Part 2, chap 21); “Beloved is my _______. I swallowed her _______ right along with my mother’s ______…. She’s mine.”

  • (Part 2, chap 22) “I am beloved and she is _____”; possessiveness 

  • (Part 2, chap 23); “I am beloved she is mine… You _______ me?...Do you _______ me?...I will protect you…You are _____ x3” highlights their individual relationships and issues with each other; forgiveness (Sethe) and fear and loneliness (Denver); a sense of obscurity

• (Part 2, chap 20); “Beloved, she my daughter. She mine.”

• (Part 2, chap 21); “Beloved is my sister. I swallowed her blood right along with my mother’s milk…. She’s mine.”

• (Part 2, chap 22) “I am beloved and she is mine”

• (Part 2, chap 23); “I am beloved she is mine… You rememory me?...Do you forgive me?...I will protect you…You are mine x3”

• Beloved as a doppelganger invading the home

  • (Part 3, chap 26); “She imitated _____… _____ for Denver to tell _____ was _____”

“She imitated Sethe… difficult for Denver to tell who was who”

• Supernatural Invasion of Dracula 

  • Helsing; “May not _____… unless bid him to come through afterwards he can _____ as he please”

“May not enter… unless bid him to come through afterwards he can come as he please”

• Dracula’s death

  • Achieved through sterilisation (placing an Eucharistic wafer) of “_____ boxes”

  • “Little _____ of _____” pg 315 (also referred to as the crew of light), who ultimately kill Dracula through Quincey staking him through the heart and Jonathan cutting his throat “knife _____ into the heart… the whole body ______ into _____ and passed from our sight”

• earth boxes”

  • “Little band of men”

  • “knife plunged into the heart… the whole body crumbled into dust and passed from our sight”

• Beloved’s communal exorcism (Part 3, chap 26):

  • “She got any _____ on her _____…No” Janey replies “I guess there’s a _____ after all”

  • “Guess she had it ____…Nobody got that _____…But” “What’s _____ ain’t necessarily ____”; idea of ancestral curse and the revenant 

  • “Shall we ____?...all thirty…_____ at 124”; a crowd of women singing against the “clever” “____ child”

  • Sethe mistakens Mr Bodwin as school teacher running at him w/ a knife, leaving Beloved alone who in turn “Disappeared…________”

• Beloved’s communal exorcism (Part 3, chap 26):

  • “She got any lines on her hands…No”

  • “I guess there’s a God after all”

  • “Guess she had it coming…Nobody got that coming…But” “What’s fair ain’t necessarily right”

  • “Shall we pray?...all thirty…arrived at 124”; “clever” “devil child”

  • “Disappeared…exploded”

• Science vs. religion; calling for god + diff ways of thinking 

  • Chapter 14; “You are a _______ man, friend John…but you are too ______” 

    • “I want you to ______…in things you _____”

  • Chapter 15; two men entering Lucy’s tomb, Helsing being like “Ah, you _____ [me] now?” truth is getting harder to deny, thinks he is “____”, Dr Seward

• Science vs. religion; calling for god + diff ways of thinking 

  • “You are a clever man, friend John…but you are too prejudiced” 

    • “I want you to believe…in things you cannot”

  • “Ah, you believe [me] now?”

  • “mad”