1. Natural being unnatural
2. The use of the colors
3. Love and friendship as a sign of ownership
4. The use of Shakespeare

Natural being unnatural: (sorry its really long. Lots of quotes that I thought brought out the unnatural)

-“red lips and sharp-looking teeth, as white as ivory” pg 17
-“Denn die todeten reiten schnell” (For the dead travel fast) pg 17
-“He petted and soothed them, whispering something in their ears, as I have heard of horse tamers doing, and with extraordinary effect, for under his caresses they became quite manageable again.” pg 19
-“blue flame” end note explanation. pg 19
-“As he swept his long arms, as though brushing aside some impalpable obstacle, the wolves fell back and back further still.” pg 20
-“His hand actually seemed like a steel vice that could have crushed mine if he had chosen” pg 21
-“…without a single speck of colour about him anywhere” 21
-“holding out his hand grasped mine with a strength which made me wince, an effect which was not lessened by the fact that it seemed as cold as ice-more like the hand of a dead than a living man.” pg 22
-“sharp white teeth;these protruded over the lips” pg 23
-“nails were long and fine” pg 24
-“It may have been that his breath was rank, but a horrible feeling of nausea came over me.” pg 24
-“Listen to them-the children of the night” pg 24
-“feeling of the hunter” pg 24
-“there is a reason that all things are as they are, and did you see with my eyes and know with my knowledge, you would perhaps understand better.” pg 26
-“All evil spirits are supposed to have unchecked sway-a blue flame is seen where any place where treasure has been concealed.” pg 27
-“The Count smiled, and his lips ran back over his gums, the long, sharp, canine teeth showed out strangely.” pg 27
-“I had not seen him since the reflection of the glass covered the whole room behind me…I cut myself..the man was close to me, and i could see him over my shoulder. But there was no reflection of him in the mirror!” pg bottom 30-top 31
-“When the Count saw my face, his eyes blazed with a sort of demonic fury, and he suddenly made a grab at my throat.” pg 31
-footnote number 6 pg. 31
-“The castle is a veritable prison, and I am a prisoner!” pg 32
-“For I behaved much as a rat does in a trap.” pg 32
-“He could control the wolves, as he did, by holding up his hand in silence?”
-“He spoke as if he had been present at them all.” pg 33
-“Berserkers” footnote number 7 pg 34
-“Canine teeth lying over the red under-lip” pg 37
-“That should you leave these rooms you will not by any chance sleep in any other part of the castle. It is old, and has many memories and there are bad dreams for those who sleep unwisely.” pg 38
-“Begin to crawl down the castle wall over that dreadful abyss, face down, with his cloak spreading out around him like great wings.” pg 39
-“just as a lizard moves along a wall” pg 39
-“He has a fearful hold upon me.” pg 41
-“Three young women, ladies by their dress and manner…they threw no shadow on the floor.” pg 42
-“I saw his strong hand grasp the slender grasp neck of the fair woman and with giants power draw it back, the blue eyes transformed with fury, the white teeth champing with rage, and the fair cheeks blazing red with passion. But the Count! Never did i imagine such wrath and fury, even to the demons pit. His eyes were positively blazing. The red light in them was lurid, as if flames of hell-fire blazed behind them.” pg 43
-“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.” pg 44
-“!7 June’- pg 46 index number 4
-“I was being hypnotized! More and more they gathered till they seemed to take dim phantom shapes…three ghostly women to whom I was doomed.” pg 48
-“I heard something stirring in the Counts room, something like a sharp wail quickly suppressed;and there was silence, deep, awful silence, which chilled me.” pg 48
-“Count calling in his harsh metallic whisper. His call seemed to be answered from far and wide by the howling of the wolves.” pg 48
-“Close at hand came the howling of many wolves.” pg 52
-“With one sweep of his powerful arm, the Count threw the door shut, and the great bolts clanged and echoed through the hall as they shot back into their place.” pg 52
-“There lay the Count, but looking as if his youth had been half renewed, for the white fair and mustache were changed to dark iron-grey; the cheeks were fuller, and the white skin seemed ruby-red underneath; the mouth was redder than ever, for on the lips were gouts of fresh blood.” pg 53
-“But as I did so the head turned, and the eyes fell full upon me, with all their blaze of basilisk horror.” pg 54
-“There is a legend that a white lady is seen in one of the windows.” pg 63
-“Zoophagous maniac; what he desires is to absorb as many lives as he can.” pg 71
-“Dark figures are on the beach here and there, sometimes half shrouded in the mist, and seem ‘men like trees walking.”
-“As idle as a painted ship upon a painted ocean.” footnote number 5 pg 76
-footnote number 9 pg 77
-“unsteered save by the hand of a dead man.” pg 78
-“The man was simply fastened by his hands, tied one over the other, to a spoke of the wheel.” pg 78
-“there was something aboard.” pg 81
-“Like a man, tall and thin, and ghastly pale…but the knife went through and through It, empty as the air.” pg 83
-the last paragraph on page 83
-“Mr. Swales was found dead this morning…Perhaps he had seen Death.” pg 85
-“The moment the stone touched the poor thing became quit and fell all into a tremble.” pg 85

“I had not seen him since the reflection of the glass covered the whole room behind me…I cut myself..the man was close to me, and i could see him over my shoulder. But there was no reflection of him in the mirror!” pg bottom 30-top 31. This quote really freaked me out and it is unnatural for a reflection not to be present when looking into a mirror,”But there was no reflection of him in the mirror.” If I was to look into a mirror and not see myself or have the version of me look at me and do a gesture with out me doing the same gesture I would be very creeped out. At that exact moment in the book I was like, “Get out of the castle, this freakin weird.”