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Dracula with some Halberstam - Coggle Diagram
Dracula with some Halberstam
MOnsters are defined as deviant, so it reaffirms what is normal
HOw might this novel be invested in normalcy? Or how might this novel be putting pressure on boundaries between man/woman; soul/body; national/foreign;
there seems to be something equal in who he feeds off?
Mina is capable of hanging with the boys, but she becomes copier/translator rather than active agent of attack; Van Helsing maybe disrupts this difference (but reaffirms masculine as raitonal with "mind of a man")
""The Professor was delighted. “Ah, that wonderful Madam Mina,” he said, “pearl among women! " (pg.208)" Van Helsing praising Mina--but maybe infantalzing? MIna
you are too precious to us to have such risk. when we part tonight, you no more must question. we shall tell you all in good time. we are men, and are able to bear; but you must be our star and our hope, and we shall act all the more free that you are not in the danger, such as we are" (258) using the language of idealizaiton, but it absolutely is about subordination.
literally as secretary: "“He made me a sit next to him on his right and asked me to act as secretary” (275)
“Mina was looking tired and pale, but she made a gallant effort to be bright and cheerful; it wrung my heart to think the I had had to keep anything from her and so caused her inquietude…she seems somehow more reconciled; or else the very subject seems to have become repugnant to her, for when any accidental allusion is made he actually shudders. I am glad we made our resolution in time, as with such a feeling as this, our growing knowledge would be torture to her” (321 ch 20)
go with me here: virginity is a social construct that says men can change a woman's body and value. so this hyper focus on their blood in her, him impailing her, it all just goes back to the idea that men have more control over Lucy's state than she does.
Libby in chat
the pleasure of reading
the tensions between vampire sex appeal and fantasy; the socially good relationship between the Harkers
"When Lucy – I call the thing that was before us Lucy because it bore her shape – saw us she drew back with an angry snarl, such as a cat gives when taken unawares; then her eyes ranged over us. Lucy’s eyes in form and colour; but Lucy’s eyes unclean and full of hell-fire, instead of the pure, gentle orbs we knew. At that moment the remnant of my love passed into hate and loathing; had she then to be killed, I could have done it with savage delight. " (pg.202)
Yo, sorry "savage delight" the absolute switch to murder man and not love; the corruption of the "good woman"; means unnatural and unholy--colors in religious frame
voluptuous so many times
the clocking of purity discourse ot shape the formaiton of "good woman": "“Seeming like a devilish mockery of Lucy’s sweet purity” (pg. 252)
allows Seward to sexualize her
How does the vampire as a monster of
modernity
, so how does this desire change or work in the 90s/00s?
vampires as minsunderstood? (Hi, Angel from
Buffy
)
desire to understand more about vamp life, immortality, escapism,
The modern vampire is given a chance to have more humanity, versus the earlier vampire where everything is desire and hatred.
Modern takes are “vampirism is an affliction” not a choice and so they have more human qualities and chance for redemption
urban vamps and concerns about city spaces, integration, class, and race