https://padlet.com/felix_hotea/yqjn0k1dm8pa Look at the quotes and discuss the questions! Feel free to add as many columns as you want to. en-us 2020-01-21 22:12:57 UTC 2026-01-07 12:43:40 UTC hello@padlet.com felix_hotea https://padlet.com/felix_hotea/yqjn0k1dm8pa/wish/434292626 To which the stranger replied, ‘That is why, I suppose,
you wished him to go on to Bukovina. You cannot deceive
me, my friend. I know too much, and my horses are swift.’
As he spoke he smiled, and the lamplight fell on a hardlooking mouth, with very red lips and sharp-looking teeth,
as white as ivory. One of my companions whispered to another the line from Burger’s ‘Lenore”.
‘Denn die Todten reiten Schnell.’ (“For the dead travel 
fast.’)]]> 2020-01-21 22:12:57 UTC https://padlet.com/felix_hotea/yqjn0k1dm8pa/wish/434292626 felix_hotea https://padlet.com/felix_hotea/yqjn0k1dm8pa/wish/434292627 Van Helsing broke the silence by asking Arthur, ‘Answer
me, oh my friend! Am I to proceed in my work?’
‘Do as you will, friend. Do as you will. There can be no
horror like this ever any more.’ And he groaned in spirit.
Quincey and I simultaneously moved towards him, and
took his arms. We could hear the click of the closing lantern as Van Helsing held it down. Coming close to the tomb,
he began to remove from the chinks some of the sacred
emblem which he had placed there. We all looked on with
horrified amazement as we saw, when he stood back, the
woman, with a corporeal body as real at that moment as our
own, pass through the interstice where scarce a knife blade
could have gone. We all felt a glad sense of relief when we
saw the Professor calmly restoring the strings of putty to
the edges of the door.
When this was done, he lifted the child and said, ‘Come
now, my friends. We can do no more till tomorrow. ]]> 2020-01-21 22:12:57 UTC https://padlet.com/felix_hotea/yqjn0k1dm8pa/wish/434292627 felix_hotea https://padlet.com/felix_hotea/yqjn0k1dm8pa/wish/434293768 We left in pretty good time, and came after nightfall to
Klausenburgh. Here I stopped for the night at the Hotel
Royale. I had for dinner, or rather supper, a chicken done up
some way with red pepper, which was very good but thirsty.
(Mem. get recipe for Mina.) I asked the waiter, and he said it
was called ‘paprika hendl,’ and that, as it was a national dish,
I should be able to get it anywhere along the Carpathians.
I found my smattering of German very useful here, indeed, I don’t know how I should be able to get on without
it.
Having had some time at my disposal when in London,
I had visited the British Museum, and made search among 
the books and maps in the library regarding Transylvania;
it had struck me that some foreknowledge of the country
could hardly fail to have some importance in dealing with a
nobleman of that country.]]> 2020-01-21 22:16:52 UTC https://padlet.com/felix_hotea/yqjn0k1dm8pa/wish/434293768 felix_hotea https://padlet.com/felix_hotea/yqjn0k1dm8pa/wish/434296321 What I saw was the Count’s head coming out from the
window. I did not see the face, but I knew the man by the
neck and the movement of his back and arms. In any case
I could not mistake the hands which I had had some many
opportunities of studying. I was at first interested and
somewhat amused, for it is wonderful how small a matter
will interest and amuse a man when he is a prisoner. But my
very feelings changed to repulsion and terror when I saw
the whole man slowly emerge from the window and begin
to crawl down the castle wall over the dreadful abyss, face
down with his cloak spreading out around him like great
wings. At first I could not believe my eyes. I thought it was
some trick of the moonlight, some weird effect of shadow,
but I kept looking, and it could be no delusion. I saw the
fingers and toes grasp the corners of the stones, worn clear
of the mortar by the stress of years, and by thus using every
projection and inequality move downwards with considerable speed, just as a lizard moves along a wall.
What manner of man is this, or what manner of creature,
is it in the semblance of man? I feel the dread of this horrible place overpowering me. I am in fear, in awful fear, and
there is no escape for me. I am encompassed about with terrors that I dare not think of.]]> 2020-01-21 22:25:17 UTC https://padlet.com/felix_hotea/yqjn0k1dm8pa/wish/434296321 https://padlet.com/felix_hotea/yqjn0k1dm8pa/wish/434453669 new upper-class: lawyers, doctors, 
lower class: gypsies and the poor Eastern European natives
recipe and meals typcial of the country
stereotypcial representation of women's activities: writing letters; being the vessel/sacrifice of Dracula's will; the comparison between Mina and Lucy (women's ideal image at the time)]]> 2020-01-22 10:15:08 UTC https://padlet.com/felix_hotea/yqjn0k1dm8pa/wish/434453669 https://padlet.com/felix_hotea/yqjn0k1dm8pa/wish/434454567 drinking blood
dead, yet not dead
corporeal body (ghost)
can't see vampires in the mirror
sharp-looking teeth
"just as a lizard moves along a wall"

Dracula: is actually (ancient) upperclass (= "nobleman" in quote): still he does all of the tasks normally servants would have to do himself; reflection not seen in the mirror]]> 2020-01-22 10:18:12 UTC https://padlet.com/felix_hotea/yqjn0k1dm8pa/wish/434454567 https://padlet.com/felix_hotea/yqjn0k1dm8pa/wish/434457594 rationality always wants to make sense of everything, yet, with vampirism, nothing makes sense

romanticism in vampires: a larger, unknown force which is not understood by humans
--> deal with the powerlessness with rationality]]> 2020-01-22 10:27:57 UTC https://padlet.com/felix_hotea/yqjn0k1dm8pa/wish/434457594