Dracula Quote Bank

Dracula as ‘Other’ (accent, physiognomy x2, Johnathan’s reaction, Mina’s impression)

‘excellent English, but with a strange intonation’ / ‘aquiline’ face, with ‘high bridge of the thin nose and peculiarly arched nostrils’ / ‘I could not repress a shudder’ / ‘hard, cruel, and sensual’

Dracula as psychologically regressed

‘child-brain’

Dracula in coffin

‘a filthy leech, exhausted with his repletion’

Johnathan and the she-vampires (transgression, feminisation, homosexual allusions)

‘I took a pleasure in disobeying’ / ‘I lay quiet, looking out under my eyelashes in an agony of delightful anticipation’ / ‘This man belongs to me!’

Lucy’s transgressive nature

‘Why can’t they let a girl marry three men’

Dracula preys on Lucy

‘half-reclining figure, snowy white’

The Crew of Light and Lucy (VH x3, blood transfusions x2)

‘She charm me, and for her, if not for you or disease, I come.’ / ‘bent over the bed, his head almost touching poor Lucy’s breast’ / ‘the best nurses’ / ‘One, two, three, all open their veins for her’ / ‘as it would at once frighten and enjealous him’

Lucy’s transformation (lethargy, VW dichotomy, blood loss)

‘seemingly in a swoon’ / ‘the angelic beauty of her eyes’ / ‘her soft, voluptuous voice’ / ‘retrograde movement’

The first death of Lucy

‘All Lucy’s loveliness had come back to her in death’

Sighting of Lucy at the grave (her transformation, male reaction)

‘The sweetness was turned into adamantine…the purity to voluptuous wantonness’ / ‘rang through the brains’ / ‘diabolically sweet’

The staking of Lucy (phallic imagery, effect, cacophonous, restoration)

‘could see its dint in the white flesh’ / ‘twisted in wild contortions’ / ‘so that our voices seemed to ring through the little vault’ / ‘unequalled sweetness and purity’

Mina’s isolation (capabilities, effects of isolation)

‘man’s brain’ / ‘woman’s heart’ / ‘I did feel full of devouring anxiety’

Dracula entering Mina’s bedchamber through mist x2

‘leaden lethargy’ / ‘lay still and endured’

The ‘baptism of blood’ (Johnathan, contamination, oral rape, corruption, attraction/repulsion)

‘flushed and heavily breathing as though in a stupor’ / ‘Her white nightdress was smeared with blood / ‘a child forcing a kitten’s nose into a saucer of milk to compel it to drink’ / ‘Unclean, unclean!’ / ‘strangely enough, I did not want to hinder him.’

Mina as a maternal figure and moral incentive

‘later on [the boy] will understand how some men so loved her, that they did dare much for her sake’

Wealth

‘It made me think of the wonderful power of money!’

Religion vs modernity

‘I have learned not to think little of anyone’s belief, no matter how strange it be’

Mina as the New Woman

‘train fiend’

Mina after Dracula’s predation

‘None safer in all the world from them than I am’