TRANSFUSION: ‘Van Helsing made a subcutaneous injection of morphia”
“We need not defibrillate it.”
“Know anything of young ladies?” – Seward is told to leave the room so VAN HELSING and
LUCY’S MAID TALK ABOUT MENSTRULATION
“I must imitate Mina, and keep writing things down.”
DEAD LUCY/THE BLOOFER LADY:
“she had clutched strenuously to her breast, growling over it as a dog growls over a bone.’
PARALLELS TO MACBETH: “Come to my woman’s breasts… you murdering minsters.”
“She makes a very beautiful corpse.”
“All of Lucy’s loveliness had come back to her in death.”
“I could not believe my eyes that I was looking at a corpse.”
“Even Ellen Terry could not be so winningly attractive.”
“Un-Dead.”
“The sweetness was turned into adamantine, heartless cruelty, and the purity to voluptuous
wantonness.”
“The stream had trickled over her chin and stained the purity of her lawn death-robe.”
“Lucy’s eyes unclean and full of hell-fire.”
“Were the coils of Medusa’s snakes.”
“Diabolically sweet.”
“Like a devilish mockery.”
“Deeper and deeper the mercy bearing stake.” – Phallic imagery
PHYSIOGNOMY: CREATED BY FRANZ JOSEPH GALL PROMINENT IN VICTORIAN ERA
, (DRACULA DESC): “Found him of a very marked physiognomy.”
‘Do you ever try to read your own face?’
‘So! You are a physiognomist’
(APPENDIX 1: TO WALT WHITMAN): “You are I know a keen physiognomist. I am a believer
of the science myself.”
(APPENDIX 1) “I am ugly but I am strong.”
SHE VAMPIRES SCENE:
“I closed my eyes in a languorous ecstasy and waited”
“There was a deliberate voluptuousness which was both thrilling and repulsive.”
“High aquiline noses, like the Count.”
“ladies by their dress and manner.”
“Thrilling and repulsive.”
CASTLE DRACULA:
OUTSIDE:
“The Carpathians seem to wind ceaselessly through the valleys.”
“Such a remarkable place.”
“Walls and dark openings.”
INSIDE:
“The walls of my castle are broken; the shadows are many, and the wind breathes cold.”
“Battlements” “cattlements” – Medieval and primitive design.
“The castle is a veritable prison and I am its prisoner.”
“I went down the stone stairs.” – Descending into Dracula’s crypt
“It was not really locked.”
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