Description of Dracula?

Question

Hello. I'm doing a photography project on morphing and need some descriptions of Dracula as he changes throughout the novel(old man to young man, into bat, into dog etc). Know any good page numbers for these descriptions or got any quotes? Any help would be much appriciated, thanks!

Answer 1

"His face was a strong, a very strong, aquiline, with high bridge of the thin nose and peculiarly arched nostrils, with lofty domed forehead, and hair growing scantily round the temples but profusely elsewhere. His eyebrows were very massive, almost meeting over the nose, and with bushy hair that seemed to curl in its own profusion. The mouth, so far as I could see it under the heavy moustache, was fixed and rather cruel-looking, with peculiarly sharp white teeth. These protruded over the lips, whose remarkable ruddiness showed astonishing vitality in a man of his years. For the rest, his ears were pale, and at the tops extremely pointed. The chin was broad and strong, and the cheeks firm though thin. The general effect was one of extraordinary pallor.

"Hitherto I had noticed the backs of his hands as they lay on his knees in the firelight, and they had seemed rather white and fine. But seeing them now close to me, I could not but notice that they were rather coarse, broad, with squat fingers. Strange to say, there were hairs in the centre of the palm. The nails were long and fine, and cut to a sharp point. As the Count leaned over me and his hands touched me, I could not repress a shudder. It may have been that his breath was rank, but a horrible feeling of nausea came over me, which, do what I would, I could not conceal." (link 1)

That's about a third of the way through chapter 2. What page number it is will, of course, depend on exactly what version of the book you have. As for transformations and the like, they generally occur off-screen in the novel. There is a point where we see a bat, but I don't recall the count actually turning into it. Here's something from chapter 3 - the female vampires in Dracula's castle are the actors here:

"But as I looked, they disappeared, and with them the dreadful bag. There was no door near them, and they could not have passed me without my noticing. They simply seemed to fade into the rays of the moonlight and pass out through the window, for I could see outside the dim, shadowy forms for a moment before they entirely faded away."

The Count himself does the same disappearing trick later (in chapter 21):

"The moonlight suddenly failed, as a great black cloud sailed across the sky. And when the gaslight sprang up under Quincey's match, we saw nothing but a faint vapor. This, as we looked, trailed under the door, which with the recoil from its bursting open, had swung back to its old position."

All in all, not very dramatic from a special-effects point of view. Things just happen without much of a transition between, except implied ones.

Answer 2

hhere ya go try this one for size. its dracula as told by bram stoker. enjoy. =^_^=

Answer 3

I never suggest this but you can always watch the movie...I don't have the book with me and I am not sure if I could find references anyway....

Answer 4

The Castle is up for sale, buy it.