Dracula

Q1 "When the Count saw my face, his eyes blazed with a sort of demonaic fury, and he suddenly made a grab at my throat. I drew away, and his hand touched the string of beads which held the crucifix. It made an instant change in him, for the fury passed so quickly that I could hardly believe that it was ever there."
R1 This quote is the one of the sign that Count Dracula was a spawn of satan and that any item that resembled a crucifix caused him to jolt back in resentment and fear. I predicted that this would be one of Dracula's weaknesses that would be later used against him.
Q2 "I am Dracula, and I bid you welcome"
R2 This is my favorite and probably the most familiar to the public. At this time of the story, Dracula is welcoming Johnathan to Translyvania. It gave me kind of a mysterious chill when I read it knowing that Dracula was a sinister yet charming and smooth vampire
Q3 "I shall cut off her head and fill her mouth with garlic, and I shall drive a stake through her body."
R3 Here Van Helsing is explaining that Lucy has been bitten by a vampire in her sleep and she is of the "un-dead" and therefore must be killed. This quote explains how to discard a vampire and the certain percautions to take when doing so.
Q4 "Between me and the moonlight flitted a great bat, comeing and going in great, whirling circles."
R4 Here Mina is writing in her journal about what happened with Lucy one night. Mina discovers a bat flying in the air not knowing that the bat is really Dracula that had bitten Lucy. I liked how this quote puts a question in the reader's mind. Was that really Dracula or just an ordinary bat?
Q5 "He was very pale, and his eyes seemed bulging out as, half in terror and half in amazement, he gazed at a tall, thin man, with a beaky nose and black moustache and pointed beard..."
R5 Mina is writing in her journal the appearance of Johnathan and his reaction of when he saw Dracula. This shows Mina's curiousity bout the strange man and why did make Johnathan so frightened
Q6 "I am here to do Your bidding, Master. I am Your slave..."
R6 Reinfield escaped from the insane asylum and believes he is a slave of Dracula (master). I believed that Reinfield was somewhat of a fan of Dracula per say and wanted to become bitten and was willing to do anything to do so
Q7 "The fair girl went on her knees and bent over me, fairly gloating. There was a deliberate voluptuousness which was both thrilling and repulsive, and as she arched her neck she actually licked her lips like an animal... I could feel the soft, shivering touch of the lips on the supersensitive skin of my throat, and the hard dents of two sharp teeth, just touching and pausing there."
R7 Here Johnathan meets the three fair girls they were intimately seduces him and put him in a somewhat spell. This quote I think made a sense of fear run through his body that he was in danger dispite of the sinful temptation he was giving in to
Q8 "I bent over him, and tried to find any sign of life, but in vain."
R8 Here Johnathan discovers fifty wooden boxes in Dracula's bedroom and finds the count sleeping in one of them. He observes the strange way that Dracula sleeps and it seems as if he was hibernating. I think this is one of the first realizations that Johnathan makes that Dracula isn't human.
Q9 "With his left hand he held both Mrs Harker's hands, keeping them away with her arms at full tension; his right hand gripped her by the back of the neck, forcing her face down on his bosom. Her white nightdress was smeared with blood, and a thin stream trickled down the man's bare breast, which was shown by his torn open dress."
R9 Here Mina and Johnathan are put under a spell by the count which causes Mina to drink his blood. This quotes makes the reader again realizes the different ways how Dracula can control and manipulate people.
Q10 "Something dark stood behind the seat where the white figure shone, and bent over it. What it was, whether man or beast, I could not tell."
R10 Mina writes in her journal about the "thing" she saw on one of Lucy's midnight adventures not knowing that it is Dracula in a beast form. Again this is another realization of the capabilities of what Count Dracula can do and that he is a demonic creature
Q11 "The whole bed would have been drenched to a scarlet with the blood the girl must have lost..."
R11 Here is a quote that is said by Van Helsing about the appearance of Lucy's neck from where she had been bitten. To me I was surprised that there was so much blood that Helsing describes because I had figured she would be dead by now as many times as Dracula had fed off her
Q12 ''A brave man's blood is the best thing on this earth when a woman is in trouble.''
R12 Here Van Helsing is asking Quincey to donate his own blood in order to save Lucy's life. I found this quote interesting because a brave man's blood would help a women however Dracula's blood poisoned them with disease of becoming a vampire
Q13 "No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning can be."
R13 Here Johnathan states in his journal that he was glad to see the morning sun finally because of the horribly night he had endured. This kind of gives the reader a sense of relief that the terrible night that Johnathan had is over and that he has until the next night to escape
Q14 "'Back, I tell you all! This man belongs to me!'"
R14 Here Count Dracula rescues Johnathan from the three women that were trying to hypnotize and seduce Johnathan. To me this kind of showed a somewhat homosexual side of Dracula as he was trying to claim that Johnathan belonged to him as if he was saying that that was his man
Q15 "Why can't they let a girl marry three men, or as many as want her, and save all this trouble?"
R15 Here Lucy asks Mina why she can't accept all three marriage proposals. To me this portrayed Lucy's character as somewhat slutty and whorish. It's no doubt to me why Lucy became Count Dracula's first victim of the story