Key quotes for Dracula and The Bloody Chamber 0.0 / 5 ? English LiteratureDraculaThe Bloody ChamberA2/A-levelOCR Created by: jroe99Created on: 07-06-18 17:47 Death of Renfield-D 'Renfield had somehow met with some accident... all covered with blood' 1 of 56 Lucy calling Arthur-D 'Come to me, Arthur' 2 of 56 Mina as a mother-D 'We women have something of the mother in us' 3 of 56 Harker and the wolves-D 'a ring of wolves, with their white teeth and lolling red tongues' 4 of 56 Woman's secrets-D 'A woman ought to tell her husband everything' 5 of 56 Harkers realisation at being prisoner-D 'I was a prisoner' 6 of 56 Mina and the vampire brides-D 'Mina is a woman, and there is nought in common' 7 of 56 Harker and the vampire brides-D 'I closed my eyes in languorous ectasy and waited' 8 of 56 Lucy calling Harker when a vampire-D 'With a languorous voluptuous grace, said: Come to me Arthur' 9 of 56 Religion and Dracula-D '...held the crucifix. It made an instant change in him' 10 of 56 Lucy on Arthur-D 'I love him, I love him, I love him' 11 of 56 Renfield to Dracula-D 'I am here to do your bidding master. I am your slave' 12 of 56 Dracula about Harker-D 'This man belongs to me' 13 of 56 Lucy on marriage-D 'Why can't they let a girl marry three?' 14 of 56 Harker on leaving the west-D 'We were leaving the West and entering the East' 15 of 56 Harker with the vampire brides-D 'Wicked, burning desire that they would kiss me with those red lips' 16 of 56 The castle-D 'The castle is on the very edge of a terrible precipice' 17 of 56 Fault of science-D 'Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all' 18 of 56 Lucy's voice-D 'Something diabolically sweet in her tones' 19 of 56 Mina's forehead-D 'The snow is not more stainless than her forehead' 20 of 56 Blood-D 'The blood is the life' 21 of 56 The milk scene-D 'Forcing her face down on his bosom. Her white night dress smeared with blood' 22 of 56 Murder of Lucy-D 'Untrembling arm rose and fell driving deeper and deeper' 23 of 56 Transformation of Lucy's softness-D 'sweetness was turned to adamantine, heartless cruelty, and the purity to voluptuous wantonness' 24 of 56 Lucy's eyes-D 'unholy light...full of hellfire' 25 of 56 About Mina's intelligence-D 'She has a man's brain' 26 of 56 Consumation-TBC 'A dozen husbands impaled a dozen brides' 27 of 56 Torture and love-TBC 'There is a striking resemblance between the act of love and the ministrations of torture' 28 of 56 Murder of the husband-TBC 'put a single, irreproachable bullet through my husband's head' 29 of 56 Wedding gift-TBC 'His wedding gift, clasped around my neck...precious slit throat' 30 of 56 Husband inspecting her-TBC 'Connoisseur inspecting horseflesh' 31 of 56 Objectification-TBC 'Purchaser unwrapped his bargain' 32 of 56 Innoncence of female protagonist-CoML 'Miss Lamb, spotless, sacrifical' 33 of 56 Metamorphis-CoML 'The bones showed through the pelt' 34 of 56 Metamorphis-TB 'Ripped off skin after successive skin' 35 of 56 Lambs and tigers-TB 'The lamb must learn to run with the tigers' 36 of 56 Clothing-EK 'He is a tender butcher...he says! Off came all my clothes' 37 of 56 Virginity-LothoL 'Special quality of virginity' 38 of 56 Death of the vampire-LothoL 'Fanged rose I plucked from between my thighs' 39 of 56 Virginity-CoW 'invisible pentacle of her own virginity...she has her knife and she is afraid of nothing' 40 of 56 Defiance-CoW 'she knew she was nobody's meat' 41 of 56 Sleeping-CoW 'sleeps between the paws of the tender wolf' 42 of 56 Need for virginity-CoW 'only immaculate flesh appeases him' 43 of 56 Sexual imagery-TBC 'breathing stertuously, as if he had been fighting with me' & 'one-sided struggle' & 'dishevellde by the loss of my virginity' 44 of 56 Marriage-TBC 'Into mariage, into exile' 45 of 56 Animal imagery-TBC 'dark mane' 46 of 56 Ownership-CoML 'his Beauty, his girl-child, his pet' 47 of 56 Objectification-TB 'now my own skin was my sole capital in the world and today I'd make my first investment' 48 of 56 Inversion of gender-EK 'I could lodge inside your belly and you would bear me' & 'Mother, mother, you have murdered me' 49 of 56 Intertextuality-EK 'As trustingly as Red Riding Hood' & 'Eat me' 50 of 56 Gothic setting-EK 'vertical bars of coloured distilation' & 'once you are inside you must stay until it lets you out again' 51 of 56 Garden of Eden-Ek eyes as 'apples' 52 of 56 Colour imagery-SC 'white as snow' & 'red as blood' 53 of 56 Vampirism-LothoL 'The beautiful somnambulist helplessly perpetuates her ancestral crimes' 54 of 56 ****-CoW 'tell-tale stained sheets' 55 of 56 Corruption of innocence-CoW 'scarlet shawl...looks like blood on snow' 56 of 56
practice questions- GOTHIC COMPARISON, GOTHIC CRITICAL APPRECIATION, HAMLET, DRAMA AND PRE POETRY 0.0 / 5
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