Gothic Quotes - Frankenstein, Bloody Chamber, Faustus
These are the quotes I'm learning for Section B (Gothic Genre) of the AQA English Lit exam.
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- GOTHIC QUOTES
- SEXUALITY & GENDER
- FRANKENSTEIN
- ‘as I imprinted the first kiss on her lips, they became livid with the hue of death'
- 'I thought that I held the corpse of my dead mother in my arms’
- 'heaven sent', 'celestial stamp'
- 'I shall be with you on your wedding night'
- THE BLOODY CHAMBER
- ‘Miss Lamb, spotless, sacrificial’-TCoML
- ‘his Beauty, his girl-child, his pet’-TCoML
- 'she is an unbroken egg, she is a sealed vessel’-TCoW
- 'The Countess wants fresh meat.' -TLotHoL
- ‘a crazy, magnificent horsewoman in widow’s weeds’ – TBC
- ‘I sensed in myself a potentiality for corruption that took my breath away’ – TBC
- ‘A neck like the stem of a young plant’ -TBC
- ‘I see the glimmerings of sturdy backbone in this little lady’ –PIB
- DR. FAUSTUS
- thou art fairer than the evening air/ Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars’
- ‘Was this the face that launched a thousand ships?’
- FRANKENSTEIN
- PSYCHOLOGY
- FRANKENSTEIN
- ‘I was a shattered wreck – the shadow of a human being’
- ‘The whole series of my life appeared to me as a dream'
- THE BLOODY CHAMBER
- ‘cut off by the tide from land for half a day’ - TBC
- ‘I squatted on the wet straw’ –TTB
- ‘And she is herself a cave full of echoes, she is a system of repetitions, she is a closed circuit’ –TLotHoL
- ‘she was an imperfect wolf’ –WA
- DR. FAUTUS
- ‘I do repent; and yet I do despair’
- ‘His waxen wings did mount above his reach’ - Chorus
- 'Despair doth drive distrust unto my thoughts'
- FRANKENSTEIN
- POWER
- FRANKENSTEIN
- ‘the cold stars shone in mockery, and the bare trees waved their branches above me’ - C
- ‘fiendish rage’
- ‘my natural lord and king’ –C
- THE BLOODY CHAMBER
- ‘My father lost me to The Beast at cards.’ – TTB
- ‘Erl-King will do you grievous harm’-EK
- ‘like one of those cobra-headed, funeral lilies’ – TBC
- ‘his eyes, dark and motionless as those eyes the ancient Egyptians painted upon their sarcophagi’ – TBC
- ‘They are as grey as famine, they are as unkind as plague’-TCoW
- ‘the forest assassins’-TCoW
- DR. FAUSTUS
- ‘A sound magician is a mighty god’
- ‘Tis magic, magic that hath ravish’d me’
- ‘These metaphysics of magicians/ and necromantic books are heavenly’
- ‘Divinity, adieu’
- ‘I’ll burn my books!’
- ‘Come, I think hell’s a fable.’
- ‘Call for mercy, and avoid despair’ – Old Man
- ‘Why this is hell, nor am I out of it’ – Mephistophilis
- FRANKENSTEIN
- GOTHIC GENRE
- DR. FAUSTUS
- ‘[The clock striketh twelve] [Thunder and lightning]’
- 'I'll conjure though I die therefore'
- 'gloomy shadow of earth'
- THE BLOODY CHAMBER
- ‘It is a northern country; they have cold weather, they have cold hearts’ –TW
- ‘the Devil is as real as you or I’ –TW
- ‘Midwinter – invincible, immaculate’ –TSC
- ‘Introspective weather, a sickroom hush’ –EK
- ‘rattle of rain on the roof’-EK
- ‘this clockwork twin of mine’ –TTB
- ‘the reeling odour of a glowing, velvet, monstrous flower’ –TLotHoL
- ‘The forest closed upon her like a pair of jaws’-TCoW
- ‘Eyes green as apples. Green as dead sea fruit’ – EK
- FRANKENSTEIN
- ‘the soil was barren’
- ‘a shrill and dreadful scream’
- ‘I saw him descend the mountain with greater speed than the flight of an eagle’
- ‘some obscure nook in the northern highlands of Scotland’
- DR. FAUSTUS
- SEXUALITY & GENDER
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