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Comments

Re: Book club - DRACULA discussion post!

[(Anonymous)]

Not seriously, no. :)

Although I do find the semantics interesting, when you have to sneak 'undead' into the dead/alive dichotomy to justify your actions. But that's certainly not specific to Dracula, pretty much all monster fighting fiction does that or something similar. And I think it's generally worth questioning why the third category is there, when its necessity is questionable. Nevertheless, I wouldn't bother with that for Dracula, maybe if we were discussing more 'serious' lit, but nah, not for this.

Stoker himself obviously felt like it needed further justification, since he put the whole releasing the original soul business on top of it.

Re: Book club - DRACULA discussion post!

[diet_poison]

when its necessity is questionable.

Really? I think it's a useful distinction. Vampires (like zombies, etc.) are dead. They have died and they no longer metabolize or grow. But they're animated and dangerous, unlike the corpses of most people who have died. "Undead" may or may not be the best word, but having a descriptor for creatures in that limbo is useful IMO.

I thought the "original soul business" was part of the overall incorporation of traditional and dogmatic Anglicanism and Catholicism in the overall story. I also thought it was kind of nice that even Dracula had peace at the end, and that a distinction was made between the living man Count Dracula, as he had been however many centuries ago when he was actually alive, and the vampire, whose cruel actions were part of the feature of his being undead, and not a reflection on what the actual man was like. In other words, the choices a vampire makes are not in any way made by the person who the body belonged to before it died.