Chapter One - Well the first 3 pages!

Chapter One - Well the first 3 pages!

I personally am in absolute love with vampire novels. Admittedly they are things such as Twilight and Vampire Academy which are very different from Dracula, but I am expecting high things from this book after all it must be good if it is used in A level examinations.
Now something that has made Twilight and Vampire Academy so popular is that they are written from the first person form. This makes you connect with the character and you are able to feel what they feel. Well feel at least what the author wants you to feel.

The distinct difference between a legend of a book such as Twilight and the legend of the book that is Dracula is that Twilight is a story of romance and Dracula, as far as I can see as I am only on the third page or so, is not.

From what I have seen so far is that it is personal and chatty. It is not formal even though the language is old as shown in the grammar - 'I had for dinner...' Nowadays it would be 'for dinner I had'. This shows when the book is meant to be set. Also time setting is shown by the old names of the places eg. Moldavia and Bukovina. Also the sense of gentlemen-ness shows the time. It is written ' get recipe for Mina'. Now it would just be 'Mina would have liked that, I'll see if I could find the recipe somewhere'.

There seems to be small simple complaints for example a late leaving train. Everything seems like magic, the countryside and everything that is being seen. The phrase simple things please simple minds, comes to mind however from the descriptions given we know that Stoker who is speaking through Jonathan Harker and later Mina Murray/Harker, Lucy Westenra, Dr Seward and Van Helsing through Dr Seward is not simple.

Something else that comes to light is the description of things that he is able to make comparisons to with things he will see in his everyday life. For example, Harker describes teh Slovaks looking something like 'some Oriental abnd of brigands'. Something in an Eastern European world is begin compared to soemthing seen in a Western world that has actually come from the Orient in an Eastern world.

From about half a page of mention of Count Dracula his personal traits and points are put into perspective. He seems a veru illusive person as Harker asks his landlord for details about Dracula but he and his wife are too afraid to talk about him. He has given the people money and orders but nobody knows anything about him. It might not be that they don't know anything about him it is more likely that they are scared of him. Like it is some form of taboo to talk about him. Infact at one point the old couple cross themselves as if just speaking about Dracula is some kind of religious sin that will have them struck down.

I need to read more than 3 pages of the book before commenting on it! (Reading is usually useful!)
Until next time! Chaoi! x