After reading the first 14 chapters of Dracula and reading over other's blogs i have to agree both http://samjanssen.blogspot.com/ and http://gothicnovel263.blogspot.com/ when it comes to Dracula and women. Dracula seems to only have the desire to pray on women, and only is using men or in this case Jonathan Harker to get what he wants.
The idea that Dracula only prays on women also connects to how Dracula wants to "own" his victims. "How dare you touch him, any of you? How dare you cast eyes on him when I had forbidden it? Back, I tell you all! This man belongs to me!" (pg 43) While Dracula is talking about Jonathan when he says this, it clear that he also believes that he owns his victims, who as far as I have read so far, have all been women.
There is a footnote on the bottom of the page saying that "some twentieth-century writers develop: that vampires can have erotic contact only with humans, not with each other." This would explain why Dracula would go after women. If he can only have "erotic contact" with humans then women would be his main focus.
Monday, October 26, 2009
Monday, October 5, 2009
Blog 1-Frankenstein
Why did Victor create the creature? What responsibilities did Victor, as the creator, have toward his creature? Why did Victor abandon the creature?
Victor had many reasons behind why he created the monster. One big reason is that Victor saw many things in himself that he did not like. By building the monster he felt as though he was getting rid of all of the things about him that he disliked. He spent all of his time and energy into building this monster, but put no thought into what was going to happen once his creature would come to life. Victor wanted to get rid of the qualities that he had inside of him that he hated, but put no thought into what would happen to them if they went into his creature.
Victor took no responsibility for his creature. After seeing the creature alive, Victor ran away frightened. By creating the creature Victor should have taken the responsibilities that a mother would have over her child. His creature knew nothing about anything. He didn't know how to speak or act around people, and it was Victor responsibility to teach his creature how to be a regular human being. However, Victor did none of this.
When Victor saw the creature awake he saw everything that he hated about himself in the creature. Now all of the qualities he despised about himself were alive and staring him in the face. This terrified him. Instead of taking responsiblity for his creation he ran away from it. He abandoned his creature and left him helpless. This really shows Victors true character. He did not want to face what he had done so he ran away from it.
I think that as this novel will continue Victor will learn even more about how damaging he made his life because he abandoned the monster and hopefully he will learn that he needs to take responsibility for his actions.
Victor had many reasons behind why he created the monster. One big reason is that Victor saw many things in himself that he did not like. By building the monster he felt as though he was getting rid of all of the things about him that he disliked. He spent all of his time and energy into building this monster, but put no thought into what was going to happen once his creature would come to life. Victor wanted to get rid of the qualities that he had inside of him that he hated, but put no thought into what would happen to them if they went into his creature.
Victor took no responsibility for his creature. After seeing the creature alive, Victor ran away frightened. By creating the creature Victor should have taken the responsibilities that a mother would have over her child. His creature knew nothing about anything. He didn't know how to speak or act around people, and it was Victor responsibility to teach his creature how to be a regular human being. However, Victor did none of this.
When Victor saw the creature awake he saw everything that he hated about himself in the creature. Now all of the qualities he despised about himself were alive and staring him in the face. This terrified him. Instead of taking responsiblity for his creation he ran away from it. He abandoned his creature and left him helpless. This really shows Victors true character. He did not want to face what he had done so he ran away from it.
I think that as this novel will continue Victor will learn even more about how damaging he made his life because he abandoned the monster and hopefully he will learn that he needs to take responsibility for his actions.
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