Dorian

• Key quotes for chapter 1(Dracula):

  • "Some of them were just like the peasants at home" Harker
  • "very picturesque" Harker
  • "The Carpathians themselves" Harker
  • "Glorius...beautiful....grandly.....mighty" Harker ab Carpathians
  • "vast ruined castle from whose tall black windows came no ray of light" Harker describing the castle
• Key quotes chapter 2(Dracula)?

  • "Through these frowning walls and dark window openings it was not likely that my voice could penetrate" Harker
  • "Aqualine" Harker's description of Dracula
  • "A vast number of English books" ...... "littered with English magazines and newspapers" Description of the library
  • "I have been so long master that i would be master still" Dracula
  • "long sharp canine teeth" Dracula
  • "all eaten with rust"..... "into a private lunatic asylum" Purfleet
  • "The castle is a veritable prison and i am a prisoner" Harker
• Key quotes Chapter 3(Dracula):

  • "I saw the whole man.... begin to crawl down the castle wall" Harker
  • "high aquiline noses" Harker about the vampiresses
  • "Brilliant white teeth that shone like pearls against the ruby of theiir voluptuous lips" Harker about vampiresses
  • "wicked burning desire that they would kiss me with those red lips" Harker about the vampiresses
  • "There was a gasp and low wail as of a half-smothered child" Vampiresses eating a baby
• Key quotes chapter 4(Dracula):

  • "Every scrap of paper was gone" Harker saying Dracula destroyed his book"
  • "Golds of all kinds, Roman and British, and Austrian, and Hungarian, and Greek and Turkish money" Dracula's possessions
  • "a dark tunnel-like passage.... deathly sickly odour" Dracula's bedroom
  • "in an old ruined chapel"....." been used as a graveyard" Dracula's chamber
  • "Goodbye all! Mina!" Harker being left in a moment of tension- narrative gap
• Key quotes chapter 5(Dracula):

  • "I have been simply overwhelmed with work" Mina
  • "Why are men so noble when we women are so little worthy of them" Lucy
  • "Why can't they let a girl marry three men or as many as want her" Lucy
  • "sanguine temperament" Renfield- blood motif
• Key quotes chapter 6(Dracula):

  • "he has eaten his birds and that he just took and ate them raw" Renfield
  • "I am to lock the door of our room every night" Mina as Lucy is sleepwalking
• Key quotes chapter 7(Dracula):

  • "A number of great wooden boxes filled with mold" disease spreading
  • "A strange man abroad a ship" Dracula
• Key quotes chapter 8(Dracula):

  • "I daubed my feet with mud...no one...should notice my bare feet" Mina covering her feet
  • "Lucy is full of quiet joy" Mina ab Lucy
  • "At night i hear her gasping as if for air" Mina about Lucy
  • "They are like little white dots with red centres" Mina as new woman
  • "His delirium...of wolves and poison and blood" Nurse about Harker
  • "I am here to do your bidding master. I am your slave" Renfield to Dracula
• Key quotes chapter 9(Dracula):

  • "Something wrong with my lungs for i don't seem ever to get air enough"Lucy
• Key quotes chapter 10(Dracula):

  • "There must be a transfusion of blood" Van Helsing
  • "of blood so pure that we need" Van Helsing about Arthur
• Key quotes chapter 12(Dracula):

  • "A brave man's blood is the best thing on this earth when a woman is in trouble" Van Helsing
  • "Soft voluptuous voice" Lucy- xref vampiresses
  • "Death had given back part of her beauty" John about Lucy
  • "we thought her dying while she slept and sleeping when she died" Lucy
• Key quotes chapter 13(Dracula):

  • "All Lucy's loveliness had come back in death" John ab Lucy
  • "I want to cut off her head and take out her heart" Van Helsing
  • "Bloofer lady" an allusion to Charles Dicken's Boofer Lady in "Our mutual friend". This was Bella Wilfer who when she was powerful she was the "Boofer lady" but when she conformed to expectations she was not.
  • "children... slightly torn or wounded in the throat" Bloofer lady
• Key quotes chapter 14(Dracula):

  • "I could not resist the temptation of mistifying him a bit- I suppose it is some of the taste of the original apple" Mina
  • "She is one of Gods women" Van Helsing about Mina
  • "They were made by miss lucy" Van Helsing
• Key quotes chapter 15(Dracula):

  • "The coffin was empty" Lucy's coffin
  • "May i cut off the head of Dear Miss Lucy" Van Helsing
• Key quotes chapter 16(Dracula):

  • "sweetness was turned to adamantine" Vamp Lucy
  • "The lips were crimson with fresh blood" Vamp Lucy
  • "her eyes blazed with unholy light" Vamp Lucy
  • "bloodstained voluptuous mouth" Lucy compare to Vampiresses
  • "Arthur placed the point over the heart" Arthur killing her
• Key quotes chapter 17(Dracula):

  • "Pearl among women" Van Helsing ab Mina
  • "You had better let me copy it out for you on my typewriter" Mina
• Key quotes chapter 18(Dracula):

  • "She has a man's brain- a brain that a man should have" Van Helsing about Mina
  • "Kill this monster in his lair or we must so to speak sterilise the earth" Van Helsing about Dracula
• Key quotes chapter 19(Dracula):

  • "Consented to hold back and let us men do the work" Harker about Mina
  • "The whole place was becoming alive with rats"
  • "It is too great a strain for a woman to bear" Harker about Mina
• Key quotes chapter 21(Dracula):

  • "He came up to the window in the mist" Renfield ab Dracula
• Key quotes chapter 1(Dorian):

  • PREFACE- "there is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well-written or badly written. That is all"
  • "hardly able to bear the burden of a beauty so flame-like as theirs"
  • "Blue wreaths of smoke that curled up....heavy opium tainted cigarette" ab LHW
  • "Adonis....Narcissus" ab DG
  • "He is some brainless beautiful creature" LHW ab DG
  • "A portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist not of the sitter" Basil
  • "Dont try to influence him, your influence would be bad" Basil to LHW
• Key quotes chapter 2(Dorian):

  • "had touched some secret chord that had never been touched before, but he felt that was now vibrating and throbbing to curious pulses" DG
  • "Life suddenly became fiery coloured" DG
  • "He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing" LHW
  • "A book which had revealed so him much that he had not known" LHW
  • "to cure the soul by means of the senses, and senses by means of the soul" LHW
  • "I would give my soul for that" DG- Faustian pact
• Key quotes chapter 3(Dorian):

  • "Dorian Gray never took his gaze off him, but sat like one under a spell"
• Key quotes chapter 4(Dorian):

  • "She tried to look picturesque but only succeeded in looking untidy" LHW's wife
  • "Women are a decorative sex" LHW
  • "You filled me with a wild desire to know everything about life" DG
  • "One evening she is Rosalind and the next she is Imogen" "She has been mad... she has been innocent" DG ab SV
  • "I must call you Prince Charming" SV to DG
  • "It made him a more interesting study" LHW ab DG
  • "To note the curious hard logic of passion" LHW
• Key quotes chapter 5(Dorian):

  • "The joy of a caged bird" SV
  • "Prince charming rules life for us now"
  • "If this man wrongs my sister i will....kill him like a dog. I swear it" James Vane
• Key quotes chapter 6(Dorian):

  • "It would be absurd for him to marry so much beneath him" Basil
  • "Rose-coloured joy" DG
• Key quotes chapter 7(Dorian):

  • "You have killed my love" DG
  • "The face appeared to him to have changed...there was a touch of cruelty in the mouth" The portrait
  • "The face on the canvas bear the burden of his passions and his sins" portrait
  • "A faint echo of his love came back" DG
• Key quotes chapter 8(Dorian):

  • "Murdered her as surely as if I had cut her little throat with a knife" DG
  • "Terrible beauty of a Greek tragedy, a tragedy in which I took great part, but by which I have not been wounded" DG
  • "Almost scientific interest" DG
  • "We have emancipated them but they remain slaves looking for their master" LHW
  • "Follow his mind into its secret places" DG
• Key quotes chapter 9(Dorian):

  • "I only trust your name won't be mentioned in connection with it" Basil
  • "I was dominated soul, "brain and power by you" Basil
  • "there is something fatal about a portrait. It has a life of its own" DG
• Key quotes chapter 10(Dorian):

  • "the face on the canvas could grow bestial, sodden and unclear" DG
  • "It was a book bound in yellow paper" DG
• Key quotes chapter 11(Dorian): 18 years have passed

  • "he grew more and more enamoured of his own beauty, more and more interested in the corruption of his soul" DG
  • "hideous lines that seared the wrinkling forehead" portrait
  • "he looked at evil as a mode through which he could realise his conception of the beautiful"
• Key quotes chapter 13(Dorian):

  • "An exclamation of horror broke from the painter's lips" Basil
  • "Each of us have heaven and hell in him Basil" DG
  • "Stabbing again and again" DG
• Key quotes chapter 14(Dorian):

  • "Its impossible for you to refuse now" DG
  • "There was a horrible smell of nitric acid in the room" DG
• Key quotes chapter 15(Dorian):

  • "A mad craving came over him" DG
• Key quotes chapter 16(Dorian): opium dens

  • "Grotesque things that lay in such fantastic postures"
  • "so dominates a nature that every fibre of the body, every cell of the brain seems to be instinct with fearful impulses"
• Key quotes chapter 17(Dorian)

  • "Women ruled the world" Duchess of Monmouth
• Key quotes chapter 18(Dorian):

  • "The man who had been shot in the thicket was James Vane"
  • "his eyes were full of tears, for he knew he was safe" DG
• Key quotes chapter 19(Dorian):

  • "Yet you have poisoned me with a book once. I should not forgive that Harry, promise me that you will never lend that book to anyone" DG
• Key quotes chapter 20(Dorian):

  • "He felt a wild longing for the unstained purity of his boyhood" DG
  • "Perhaps if his life became pure, he would be able to expel every sign of evil passion from the face" DG
  • "It was not until they had examined the rings that they recognises who it was" DG's death