Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Dracula, until chapter XXI

As we may have tohught before, Lucy has been a vampire, but is now actually dead thanks to Van Helsing's knowlegde of vampires and their weaknesses. This part wasn't the most interesting because Van Helsing spent a large part of the time trying to persuade his companions about vampires' existence.
However, after this passage, the novel began to be quite pleasant again. Dracula is finally in action in London, confronting all characters in the asylum. The climax has been reached i think, everyone is involved, having problems or trying to help. Plus, Renfield's role in the novel and his link with Dracula have been been discovered. (i try not to tell too much about the sotry itself because you may want to read it too).
Finally, the four men are now chasing the vampires and the earth boxes, through london and its country, which brings a nie touch to the story -i mean, some actual actions this time-.
What are Mina and Jonathan going to do after Van Helsing saw them together in their room being bitten by Dracula? Is it too late for them?


Also, i'd like to add something about one theme in this novel, I think there are many sexual meanings in this novel. I hadn't noticed them that much until this point, but all the stuff about Lucy's death and body, and the attraction of the female vampires to men made me think about it. Would Dracula have another purpose? like denoncing some people's behavior at this time? And since vampires are weak against holy objects, i think there is a hidden morale behind that, insinuating that we have to respect the religious rules.

1 comment:

  1. Very good post here, Nicholas. Though I haven't read the book, you've sparked my interest in picking it up for myself. The action sounds exciting, but your analysis of some of the deeper messages of the novel for it's time is interesting to me as well. I bet a little research would pull up lots of theories about this.

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