Van Helsing

Van Helsing

He is a seemingly arbitrary man, this is because he knows what he is talking about better than anyone else
1. lack of competititon alllows him to thrive
I want to cut off her head and take out her heart
Laughed and cried together, just as a woman does
1. sexist
He has all along, since his coming, been trying his power, slowly but surely; that big child-brain of his is working
In his life, his living life, he go over the Turkey frontier and attack his enemy on his own ground; he be beaten back, but did he stay? No! He come again, and again, and again. (
Thus are we ministers of God's own wish: that the world, and men for whom His Son die, will not be given over to monsters, whose very existence would defame Him. He have allowed us to redeem one soul already, and we go out as the old knights of the Cross to redeem more. Like them we shall travel towards the sunrise; and like them, if we fall, we fall in good cause.
“Professor Van Helsing, of Amsterdam who knows as much about obscure diseases as anyone in the world”
1. ery intelligent - the other can sometimes be well respected
“job… [is] to make us believe the impossible”
“No trifling with me! I never jest! There is grim purpose in what I do, and I warn you that you do not thwart me. Take care, for the sake of others if not for your own. (
“the curse of immortality,”
1. disgust for the supernatural
The foreign Gentleman
1. description means to different timed readers
"We learn from failure, not from success!"
"There are darknesses in life and there are lights, and you are one of the lights, the light of all lights."
1. kind
"Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker"
"I want you to believe...to believe in things that you cannot."
"Oh, my dear, if you only knew how strange is the matter regarding which I am here, it is you who would laugh. I have learned not to think little of any one's belief, no matter how strange it may be. I have tried to keep an open mind, and it is not the ordinary things of life that could close it, but the strange things, the extraordinary things, the things that make one doubt if they be mad or sane."
"Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some people see things that others cannot? But there are things old and new which must not be contemplate by men´s eyes, because they know -or think they know- some things which other men have told them. Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain."
1. open mind tot eh belivefs of the mystical
"It is a strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes, and troubles. And yet when King Laugh come, he make them all dance to the tune he play. Bleeding hearts, and dry bones of the churchyard, and tears that burn as they fall, all dance together to the music that he make with that smileless mouth of him. Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us different ways. Then tears come, and like the rain on the ropes, they brace us up, until perhaps the strain become too great, and we break. But King Laugh he come like the sunshine, and he ease off the strain again, and we bear to go on with our labor, what it may be."
"There are mysteries which men can only guess at, which age by age they may solve only in part." Van Helsing says this after his demand that he be allowed to cut Lucy's head off. He wants Arthur to be open to the idea that the supernatural may be at work here and that he is not just doing this on a whim.
"But this night our feet must tread in thorny paths, or later, and for ever, the feet you love must walk in paths of flame!"
1. almost religious language
"Our toil must be in silence, and our efforts all in secret; for this enlightened age, when men believe not even what they see, the doubting of wise men would be his greatest strength."
"I want to cut off her head and take out her heart."
1. immoral acts in the name of science
"But we are strong, each in our purpose, and we are all more strong together."
"My Life is a barren and lonely one, and so full of work that I have not had much time for friendships...I have known so many good people and seen such nobility that I feel more than ever-and it has grown with my advancing years-the loneliness of my life. Believe, me, then, that I come here full of respect for you, and you have given me hope-hope, not in what I am seeking of, but that there are good women still left to make life happy."
"My Life is a barren and lonely one, and so full of work that I have not had much time for friendships...I have known so many good people and seen such nobility that I feel more than ever-and it has grown with my advancing years-the loneliness of my life. Believe, me, then, that I come here full of respect for you, and you have given me hope-hope, not in what I am seeking of, but that there are good women still left to make life happy."
"All men are mad in some way or another, and inasmuch as you deal discreetly with your madmen, so deal with God's madmen too, the rest of the world."
"Perhaps I may gain more knowledge out of the folly of this madman than I shall from the teaching of the most wise."
"You must not be alone; for to be alone is to be full of fears and alarms."
"There are things done today in electrical science which would have been deemed unholy by the very man who discovered electricity, who would themselves not so long before been burned as wizards."
"He meant that we shall have an open mind, and not let a little truth check the rush of the big truth, like a small rock does a railway truck. We get the small truth first. Good! We keep him, and we value him, but all the same we must not let him think himself all the truth in the universe."
"the devil may work against us for all he is worth, but God sends us men when we want them"
"May I cut off the head of dead Miss Lucy?"
1. speaks kindly of the dead- polite and respectful

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