Act I, Scene 1 — A street in Verona
Gregory, on my word, we'll not carry coals.08:00✓✓
GregoryNo, for then we should be colliers.08:01
I mean, an we be in choler, we'll draw.08:02✓✓
GregoryAy, while you live, draw your neck out of collar.08:03
BenvolioPart, fools! Put up your swords; you know not what you do.08:04🙏
TybaltWhat, art thou drawn among these heartless hinds? Turn thee, Benvolio, look upon thy death.08:05💀😳
BenvolioI do but keep the peace. Put up thy sword, or manage it to part these men with me.08:06
TybaltWhat, drawn, and talk of peace! I hate the word, as I hate hell, all Montagues, and thee.08:07🔥💀
Gregory
A truth universally acknowledged — and a ball
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man with a good fortune must be in want of a wife. 💍08:00✓✓
Mr Bennet!! Netherfield Park is let at last — to a young man of LARGE fortune. Four or five thousand a year! You MUST go and meet him.08:01✓✓
Mr BennetI see no occasion for that. You and the girls may go — though I suspect he will like you best of the party, my dear.08:02
You take delight in vexing me. You have no compassion for my poor nerves. 😤08:03✓✓
Mr BingleyCome, Darcy, I hate to see you standing about by yourself. Do dance. There are pretty girls everywhere tonight.08:04
Mr DarcyShe is tolerable, I suppose; but not handsome enough to tempt me. Return to your partner.08:05
ElizabethOh, I heard ALL of that. 💀 Fine by me — I could more easily forgive his vanity had he not wounded mine.08:06
Mark my words: I would not dance with that man if he were the last in Hertfordshire.08:07
Mr Bennet
Down the Rabbit-Hole
So bored. My sister's book has no pictures or conversations. What is even the use of a book like that? 🥱08:00✓✓
The White RabbitOh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late!08:01
Wait — did that rabbit just take a WATCH out of its WAISTCOAT pocket? I have to follow this. Obviously.08:02✓✓
The White RabbitNo time, no time! The Duchess will have my head! 🐇⏰08:03
Down the hole I go and— oh, I'm falling so slowly I could read on the way down. There are cupboards and maps and jars everywhere.08:04✓✓
Landed. A tiny golden key, a tiny door, a garden behind it I can't reach. Curiouser and curiouser.08:05✓✓
A little bottleDRINK ME ✨08:06
It isn't marked 'poison', so… bottoms up. Wait — I'm shutting up like a telescope! I'm only ten inches high!! 😳08:07✓✓
The White Rabbit
Jonathan Harker's Journal — the road to the castle
Closing a property deal for a Transylvanian count. Long way from home, but good for the firm. The scenery is unreal.08:00✓✓
The Innkeeper's WifeYou go to the castle? Tonight, the eve of St George's, when all evil things hold sway? Take this — wear it for your mother's sake. 🪦08:01
A crucifix. The whole village made the sign against the evil eye as my coach left. Unsettling, but I'm sure it's just folklore.08:02✓✓
The driver had eyes that glowed red in the lamplight. Wolves circled the coach and then… parted. We're here. The castle is vast and dark.08:03✓✓
Count DraculaWelcome to my house! Enter freely and of your own will. 🩸08:04
His hand was cold as ice — more the hand of a dead man. And his teeth… I caught myself staring. Listen, the food is excellent. He never eats with me.08:05✓✓
Count DraculaI never drink… wine. You will stay a while, Mr Harker. We have much business, and the nights here are long.08:06
I tried the doors this morning. Every one of them is locked. I am a prisoner. 😶08:07✓✓
The Innkeeper's Wife
On the ice — Walton's ship
We pulled a man off the ice today. Half-frozen, chasing something across the floes. He'll talk once he's warm.08:00✓✓
Victor FrankensteinYou seek knowledge as I once did. Listen, and learn how dangerous that hunger is.08:01
I discovered the secret of life itself. I gathered the parts. I worked for two years. And then it opened its eyes.08:02
It was hideous. I had dreamed of beauty and made a monster. I fled my own creation. God forgive me, I just left.08:03
The CreatureI was new to the world. Cold, alone, and everyone screamed at the sight of me. What was I supposed to do? 💀08:04
I ought to be thy Adam, Victor. Instead I am the fallen angel. You owe me. Make me one companion, that is all I ask.08:05
Victor FrankensteinNever. I will not loose a second curse upon the earth.08:06
The CreatureThen I will be with you on your wedding night. Remember that. 🕯️08:07
Victor Frankenstein
Loomings — New Bedford to the Pequod
Call me Ishmael.08:00✓✓
Whenever it's a damp, drizzly November in my soul, I take to the sea. It's how I keep from knocking people's hats off in the street.08:01✓✓
QueequegWe share the inn's only bed tonight, stranger. Do not mind the harpoon.08:02
Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian. Honestly? You and me, married by morning.08:03✓✓
Captain PelegSo you'd ship aboard the Pequod, would ye? Sign here. Lay-share's small, but the whales are large.08:04
And the captain — this Ahab? I've not laid eyes on him.08:05✓✓
Captain PelegAhab's a grand, ungodly, god-like man. He lost a leg to a whale. Say no more on it.08:06
ElijahShipped, have ye? Anything down there about your souls? Ah well — morning to ye, and a pleasant voyage. 🫠08:07
Queequeg