Help me: how is a dramatic moment created in the extract below:
But at that instant, another sensation swept through me as quick as lightning. I was conscious of the presence of Count Dracula, and of his being as if lapped in a storm of fury. As my eyes opened, I saw his strong hand grasp the slender neck of the fair woman and with giant’s 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 of the pit. His eyes were positively blazing. The red light in them burned bright, as if the flames of hell-fire blazed behind them. His face was deathly pale, and the lines of it were hard like drawn wires; the thick eyebrows that met over the nose now seemed like a heaving bar of white-hot metal. With a fierce sweep of his arm, he hurled the woman from him, and then motioned to the others, as though he were beating them back; it was the same commanding gesture that I had seen used to the wolves