Dracula (OCR A Level English Literature): Flashcards
Exam code: H472
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Fill in the gap: "A ＿＿＿＿＿ man's blood is the best thing on this earth when a woman is in trouble"
Van Helsing, Chapter 12
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Fill in the gap: "A ＿＿＿＿＿ man's blood is the best thing on this earth when a woman is in trouble"
Van Helsing, Chapter 12
Answer: "A brave man's blood is the best thing on this earth when a woman is in trouble"
Fill in the gap: "The sweetness was turned to ＿＿＿＿＿, heartless cruelty"
Dr Seward, Chapter 16
Answer: "The sweetness was turned to adamantine, heartless cruelty"
Fill in the gap: "Ah, it is the fault of our ＿＿＿＿＿ that it wants to explain all"
Van Helsing, Chapter 14
Answer: "Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all"
Fill in the gap: "Oh, the terrible struggle that I have had against ＿＿＿＿＿"
Lucy Westenra, Chapter 11
Answer: "Oh, the terrible struggle that I have had against sleep"
Key quote: "Do you not know that tonight, when the clock strikes midnight, all the evil things in the world will have full sway?"
The innkeeper's wife, Chapter 1
Analysis
The warning marks the journey as a step into evil before Harker even reaches the castle. He dismisses the local superstition, and that is exactly what leaves him unprotected.
Key quote: "the world seems full of good men — even if there are monsters in it"
Mina Harker, Chapter 17
Analysis
Mina separates the men she trusts from the monster they are hunting. Refusing Dracula the word "man" keeps good and evil clearly divided in the novel.
Key quote: "I am alone in the castle with those awful women. Faugh! Mina is a woman, and there is nought in common. They are devils of the Pit!"
Jonathan Harker, Chapter 4
Analysis
Harker divides women into the pure and the monstrous so that Mina cannot be compared with the vampires. The exclamations show how threatening open female desire is to Victorian gender roles.
Key quote: "I suppose there is something in a woman's nature that makes a man free to break down before her"
Mina Harker, Chapter 17
Analysis
Mina suggests that a woman's presence lets a man show feeling without losing his manhood. Comforting men is treated as part of a woman's role rather than as a choice.
Key quote: "Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are?"
Van Helsing, Chapter 14
Analysis
Van Helsing asks Seward to accept evidence that science cannot measure. The question suggests that superstition may hold knowledge the modern mind has dismissed.
Key quote: "But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one; men know him not"
Count Dracula, Chapter 2
Analysis
Dracula wants to pass unnoticed in London rather than stand out. His aim to seem ordinary is what makes him dangerous to a society already afraid of the outsider.
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