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⌈ Secret Post #3588 ⌋

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Re: Book club - DRACULA discussion post!

[(Anonymous)]

I think the thing that interested me most about the book was less the vampire-specific mythology, and more the general Gothic-ness of everything. It's so effectively atmospheric - especially the section that's just Harker's letters at the beginning. It's basically a Victorian travelogue that goes to this intensely weird place. The sections that are back in England are a little more formulaic but still very good at carrying across the feels. And Stoker seems really good at getting all the brooding, medieval, dark, ominous feelings out there, the whole Gothic sensibility. Lost beautiful women, storms, Catholicism, etc etc etc.

One of the things that does interest me - and obviously this is not new ground - but how much of the novel has to do with exoticness - the foreignness of Dracula, and especially the religious/cultural element between the English characters and Van Helsing and the rest of the continental stuff. It ties in with the Gothic stuff obviously and I think a lot of the unsettling alienness that Dracula has draws really effectively on those cultural ideas. All this Victorian-ass culture.

The one thing that really frustrated me about the book is when Mina is getting attacked by Dracula, and it's SO OBVIOUS what's happening and it takes them SO LONG to figure it out. Very frustrating. But Mina's character was good.

Re: Book club - DRACULA discussion post!

[diet_poison]

Yeah the foreignness of Dracula was I think supposed to be part of what made him scary, and not just that he was foreign but that he was from the areas of eastern Europe that were considered to be more savage and scary for various reasons. (Personally I found the various peoples there very interesting and would like to read more about that time period and the various countries there, and how those borders have changed. Even in the modern day we hardly learned about countries in eastern Europe in history/geography in school which was pretty dumb.)

The one thing that really frustrated me about the book is when Mina is getting attacked by Dracula, and it's SO OBVIOUS what's happening and it takes them SO LONG to figure it out. Very frustrating.

YEAH the minute they were like "huh Mina looks a bit pale" I was like DID YOU JUST FORGET EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENED TO LUCY, EVEN THOUGH SHE'S ALL YOU TALK ABOUT, WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU NOT ALARMED??? That just seemed really dumb.