Dracula p. 7 - 155 by Alicia E Ellis https://padlet.com/lerche/t9864qey5yv6 en-us 2017-01-23 18:57:12 UTC 2026-02-27 13:18:29 UTC hello@padlet.com Did you look at the notes at the back of the novel? aeellis https://padlet.com/lerche/t9864qey5yv6/wish/155425007 They are extremely informative. That introduction was excellent, too!]]> 2017-02-22 12:59:47 UTC https://padlet.com/lerche/t9864qey5yv6/wish/155425007 Journal, Letters, Logbooks, Newspapers, Phonograph, Shorthand, Dictation, Translation, Citation, Documents aeellis https://padlet.com/lerche/t9864qey5yv6/wish/155425087 So how many forms does Stoker employ?]]> 2017-02-22 13:00:12 UTC https://padlet.com/lerche/t9864qey5yv6/wish/155425087 Forms of Writing aeellis https://padlet.com/lerche/t9864qey5yv6/wish/155425169 It seems as if this is a text obsessed with forms of writing and documentation.]]> 2017-02-22 13:00:40 UTC https://padlet.com/lerche/t9864qey5yv6/wish/155425169 Ethnicity and National Origin/Race? aeellis https://padlet.com/lerche/t9864qey5yv6/wish/155426679 2017-02-22 13:07:59 UTC https://padlet.com/lerche/t9864qey5yv6/wish/155426679 Renfield aeellis https://padlet.com/lerche/t9864qey5yv6/wish/155426726 Zoophagous?]]> 2017-02-22 13:08:13 UTC https://padlet.com/lerche/t9864qey5yv6/wish/155426726 Some Dates aeellis https://padlet.com/lerche/t9864qey5yv6/wish/155426870 1847 - 1912 - Abraham Stoker, Ireland

1818 - Frankenstein published

1872 - Carmilla Published

1854 - 1900 Oscar Wilde, Ireland, On Trial 1895

1896 - The Island of Doctor Moreau, H.G. Wells (vivisection)
]]> 2017-02-22 13:08:49 UTC https://padlet.com/lerche/t9864qey5yv6/wish/155426870 Ladies, Ladies, One Guy who wants to be penetrated by Ladies, Ladies, Ladies and maybe a Count aeellis https://padlet.com/lerche/t9864qey5yv6/wish/155427017 Do you really believe that Mr Harker is so upset about the three weird sisters or the fact that the count claims him as his own?]]> 2017-02-22 13:09:25 UTC https://padlet.com/lerche/t9864qey5yv6/wish/155427017 In the East afischer4 https://padlet.com/lerche/t9864qey5yv6/wish/155642432 "I find that the district he named is in the extreme east of the country... one of the wildest and least known portions of Europe" (7-8).
"I am going among the latter, who claim to be descended from Attila and the Huns" (8).
"The further East you go the more unpunctual are the trains. What ought they to be in China?" (8).

It seems that Jonathan Harker equates Eastern Europe with uncivilized barbarity.]]> 2017-02-23 01:45:54 UTC https://padlet.com/lerche/t9864qey5yv6/wish/155642432 The Oblivious Englishman afischer4 https://padlet.com/lerche/t9864qey5yv6/wish/155643382 "'It is the eve of St. George's Day. Do you not know that tonight, when the clock strikes midnight, all the evil things in the world will have full sway?'... Finally, she went down on her knees and implored me not to go... It was all very ridiculous... She then rose and dried her eyes, and taking a crucifix from her neck offered it to me. I did not know what to do, for, as an English Churchman, I have been taught to regard such things as in some measure idolatrous..." (11).

Ignoring obvious warnings and foreshadowing signs of his impending doom, Jonathan, a rational and morally-upright Englishman, can only ignore such "superstitious" assertions. 
 ]]> 2017-02-23 01:53:46 UTC https://padlet.com/lerche/t9864qey5yv6/wish/155643382 Renfield and Life-Yielding Consumption afischer4 https://padlet.com/lerche/t9864qey5yv6/wish/155644305 "His redeeming quality is a love of animals, though, indeed, he has such curious turns in it that I sometimes imagine he is only abnormally cruel. His pets are of odd sorts. Just now his hobby is catching flies... He disgusted me much while with him, for when a horrid blow-fly, bloated with some carrion food, buzzed into the room, he caught it, held it exultingly for a few moments between his finger and thumb, and, before I knew what he was going to do, put it in his mouth and ate it. I scolded him for it, but he argued quietly that it was very good and very wholesome; that it was life, strong life, and gave life to him" (77-78).

Renfield seems to have an unhealthy fascination with consumption, especially as he imagines the prey giving its life force to the predator. His actions even follow the dark nursery rhyme "There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly:" "She swallowed the bird to catch the spider, she swallowed the spider to catch the fly; I don't know why she swallowed a fly - Perhaps she'll die!"

]]> 2017-02-23 02:02:56 UTC https://padlet.com/lerche/t9864qey5yv6/wish/155644305 The Medical Professional: Science vs. Superstition afischer4 https://padlet.com/lerche/t9864qey5yv6/wish/155646558 "We went into the room, taking the [garlic] flowers with us. The Professor's actions were certainly odd and not to be found in any pharmacopoeia that I ever heard of. First he fastened up the windows and latched them securely; next, taking a handful of the flowers, he rubbed them all over the sashes, as though to ensure that every whiff of air that might get in would be laden with the garlic smell. Then with the wisp he rubbed all over the jamb of the door, above, below, and at each side, and round the fireplace in the same way. It all seemed grotesque to me, and presently I said: -- 'Well, Professor, I know you always have a reason for what you do, but this certainly puzzles me. It is well we have no sceptic here, or he would say that you were working some spell to keep out an evil spirit.' 'Perhaps I am!'" (141).

I found it interesting that the person who first realizes that a vampire is pursuing Lucy is Professor Van Helsing, who is a believer in the sciences and in up-and-coming medical advances. I was surprised that such a character would readily believe in the mythical vampire and the superstitions that detail how to rid oneself of one, instead of pursuing perhaps a more "rational" conclusion.

]]> 2017-02-23 02:25:25 UTC https://padlet.com/lerche/t9864qey5yv6/wish/155646558 Impressive Conclusions https://padlet.com/lerche/t9864qey5yv6/wish/155840954 "My friend John and I have consulted; and we are about to perform what we call a transfusion of blood—to transfer from full veins of one to the empty veins which pine for him" (132).

The conclusion that a blood transfusion is what Lucy needs is incredibly impressive, considering this is the 1890s]]> 2017-02-23 17:57:55 UTC https://padlet.com/lerche/t9864qey5yv6/wish/155840954 The Desire of Death celawlor https://padlet.com/lerche/t9864qey5yv6/wish/155954955 "The light and warmth of the Count's courteous welcome seemed to have dissipated all my thoughts and fears"(21).

Harker has had an uneasy feeling about visiting the Count and has already had a terrifying journey, yet something about the man draws him in.

"I could feel the soft, shivering touch of the lips on the supersensitive skin of my throat, and the hard dents of two sharp teeth,  just touching and pausing there.  I closed my eyes in languorous ecstasy and waited--waited with a beating heart"(43-44).

Harker describes this encounter with one of the three women using sexual language. He describes the women as "voluptuous" yet he seems to desire the sensuality of the bite more than the women themselves. ]]> 2017-02-24 04:40:53 UTC https://padlet.com/lerche/t9864qey5yv6/wish/155954955