Lucy's mother?

Was Bram Stoker a pervert?

My answer would have to be yes. I think he was a pervert he had some quotes in the book which seemed a little too much for what he was trying to explain in the story. He tried to hide it and maybe back in the day they didnt notice it but we did. They also sound more perverted when you read the quotes alone and dont know whats going on, like for example "well, I was anxious about the dear child in the night, and went into her room." pg.141 what do you think he was talking about there? well this was said by Lucy's mother. She was worried about Lucy so she went to check on her to see if she was okay. Once you know whats going on it doesn't sound as bad but the idea is there he tried not to make it to noticible. There is a lot of quotes like this in the book that we have read so far so in my opinion I think he was a pervert.

Dracula Vocab 2 (of 4)

Here's the second set of 5 vocab words for Dracula. You may leave a comment here using the word correctly in a sentence for either extra credit or toward your 2nd blogging assignment grade.

Paroxysm = a sudden sharp attack

"I never saw a lunatic in such a paroxysm of rage before." (p. 108)

Arrears = an unpaid and overdue debt, or an unfulfilled obligation

"My own work, with its manifold arrears, took me all day to clear off..." (p. 133)

Prostrate = face downward, lying horizontally

"...keeping a wary eye on the prostrate figure all the time." (p. 149)

Subcutaneous = under the skin

"...the action made a subcutaneous injection of morphia..." (p. 157)

Obsequious = too humble, showing too much respect

"...the urbane undertaker proved that his staff were afflicted...with something of his own obsequious suavity." (p. 171)

Vampires Are Sex Addicts

Vampires traditionally have been thought of very sexy. There is a few connections I could make between sex and vampires. When a vampire eats he injects his fangs into the neck of his victim. When humans have sex there's also a penetration that goes on. "She wants blood, and blood she must have or die. My friend John and I have consulted; and we are about to perform what we call transfusion of blood- to transfer from full veins of one to the empty veins which pine for him."pg. 129. The connection here with the blood transfusion is how the blood which provides life is flowing through two bodies where in sex there is also fluids that are transferred between two people and those fluids can also provide life.

1) I don't think he was a pervert that's just how people were back in the day.
2) I personally think a lot of monsters could be sexy, not just vampires
3) Sex back in the day was probably thought of as a means to have children and not as exploited as it is these days.

Lets have sex

Back in the 1800's there wasn't much known about sex. People didn't know what to think about it or what effects it might have on the society. Vampires showed something that people weren't use to. When Jonathan escaped Dracula's castle and what he might of done to him. Mina felt that she must have Jonathan before someone else gets him. So they got married right there on the spot. To insure Mina would have and be able to be with Jonathan.

vampire sex

In the book dracula sex is a big facter in the vampire world i mean how they feed is by sucking blood but to them its not just food they get pleasure out of it like sex. vampires after they feed become very youthful and sexy if you want to say that "she makes a very beautiful corpse, sir. its quite a privlege to attend on her. its not too much to say that she will do credit to our establishment!" pg .171 so after she fed and is considered died she still likes alive and very attractice mean while most people when there died look stiff and just died!

Mina can't get any

on page 162 Mina says " Jonathan is beginning to put flesh on his bones again but still weekend by the long illness even now he sometimes starts out of his sleep in a sudden way and awakes all trembling until i can coax him back to his usual placidity. Witch means that Mina can't wait until Jonathan gets better and so he can jump her bones.
Bram Stoker is not a perve he just thinks like men do. He just thought no one would find out that his book is about sex but we did. Stoker is just a man back in the day trying to get a little fun out of writing a book about a vampire.
Vampires are the only sexy monsters because they look like humans. A lot of people think that sharp teeth and bitting on the neck is hot.

p.165-170

Why is the vampire look so sexy and seductive?

The main look on the vampire theme is sercetive and sexual. They have the ideas of a vampire to be this sexy looking human being but in the end it is a beast beyond this nature or of some kind of nature. Most of the vampires get there new and young look by drinking younger blood. "we thought her dying whilst she slept, and sleeping when she died" Basically this means the vampires sleep they look dead and when they awake the look younger new and refress in so many ways.

Three Way Sex

I think Bram Stoker was in some wierd way was a preveted guy.If you pay really close attention you can get the idea of the way people think that he was a preverted man. There was a seen were Dr. Seward, Arthur,and Dr. Van Helsing all three banged lucy in " The vampire way of having sex" by the transfusion of blood. Which arthur said that that made him and lucy become more closer, and that's what made them husband and wife.

Well i think that the vampires are the only sexy's monster because there are in some way human or have all the charatistic that a human does. Back in the day's vampire were dress old fashion but some how they still look sexy. And now these day the vampires are really actractive they dress really,really sexy especially the girls. They would actually go by been a real human you would be surprise how they look Now!

Creepy Old Man

Van Helsing just gets to Lucy House after Dr. Seward calls for him to come help him find out what is going on with her. He wants to check her out to see if there anything wrong with her alone!! "So, my dear, we will send him away to smoke the cigarette in the garden, while you and I have a little talk all to ourselves." why does he need to be alone with her to just have a talk and to see if there anything wrong with her? Is he just trying to get close to her by them selfs since he never been married or anything his old and she is young and beautiful.

pg 150-155 Lucy and her mother!!!

Is Bram storker a pervert??

I think not but only based on the 5 pages i picked to read for this blog post.
in my 5 pages I read it is talking about Lucy and her mother. Lucy is awaken by a flapping out side her window she is awoken and frightened her mother comes in to check on her and decides to stay and lay with her for a while, Lucy asks her to stay a while. " so she came into the bed, lay down beside me ; she did not take off her dressing gown, for she said she would only stay a while." when brom but this in to his book I don't think he was a pervert because it is only a mother and daughter, Now if it was a male character that yes it would be perverted because a male should not comfort Lucy or any woman unless they are close friends or family or dating, because other wise i think that would be wrong and sorta crossing the comfort line for Lucy possibly. I know if doctor Van Helsing came in to comfort me I would feel uncomfortable because i hardly know the guy.

Damsel in Distress

Brahm Stoker perverted...? I think yes.
Back then or in and around the same time period sex was more hidden and less talked about then it is now. But reading the book themes of sex are all in the text juz written in between the lines. Blood transfusions.. or just another way for stoker to have his way with the women in the story, helpless taking advantage getting into them.. need i say more.
"we took Lucy into another room, which had by now been prepared, laid her in bed and forced brandy down her throat."
or maybe the fact that all the maids are drugged and confused passed out.. or maybe the details of lucy and her breast and the fact that the doctors feel up on her while they are with her and feeling her to grab the note hidden in between her breast. so yes i think stoker was able to show his pervertedness in his writing.

Dracula Blog Post #2: Sex

For your second blog post grade on Dracula, make sure you do the following to receive full credit...

-Title your post something clever but appropriate to the events from the pages you're assigned

-Find a connection between the events of your pages and the theme of Sex (consider what we've talked about in class regarding fangs, blood transfusions, vampires, marriage, old vs. new, and more) and make a brief one paragraph argument answering one of the following questions WITH A QUOTE FROM YOUR PAGES (and page number):

1) Was Bram Stoker a pervert? Why or why not?
2) Why are vampires the only "sexy" monster?
3) What does the theme of Sex in your pages have to do with the theme of Modernity vs. Antiquity? How did people view sex during the late 1800s?

-Leave TWO comments on your classmates' blog posts about the topic of Vampires and/or on the Vocab 1 post

-If you have time left, complete your Vampires blog post from last week!

-Don't forget to put your initials at the bottom of both your post and comments!

The vampire Masquerade

The Vampire Masquerade is a game. Which some people play and they beilived that they were vampire.Some people say that gothic and or Emos are some vampire because of the way they dress. The way that vampires use too dress or is to believe that they dress was all black. People would play these game and pretend that they were vampire it was often played in a group which that means there was a leader or you can say he or she was dracula.

the bloody countess

Elizabeth Bathory also known as the bloody countess was considered one of the first vampires. She belonged to the ritchest and most powerful families in all hungary. She brought young virgins girls by lying to them, saying that she was going to teach them good manners but instead she kept them in her castle hostage, tortured them , and killed them. She thought that by bathing and drinking in young virgins blood would keep her keep her youth. She tortured them in very horrible ways and did not care at all of the pain they were going through.



http://www.whataslacker.com/backdoor/elizabeth_bathory/

I do believe that Bram stroker was inspired by Elizabeth Bathory. She brought in young girls by lying to them that they were going to be thought good manners but she was actually going to kill them. In the book Dracula Jonathan goes to his castle thinking that he is just going to sell a home but Dracula ends up keeping him hostage for a month. Jonathan says "The castle is a veritable prison, and i am a prisoner!" pg 27 .

Vampires circa 1897 were known to be ugly and very scary looking and people who lived around them seemed to know or suspect they were vampires. They were also most of the time alone and they only came out in the night you never saw them during the day. Vampires today are described as very beautiful and they go out both during the night and day and dont sleep. There is usually more than one vampire and people dont suspect at all that they are vampires.

Do you think vampires have any emotions while killing people like regret?

If the vampire had the choice to be a normal human or stay a vampire which one do you think they would have gone for?

Dracula Vocab 1 (of 4)

Here's the first set of 5 vocab words for Dracula. You may leave a comment here using the word correctly in a sentence for either extra credit or toward your 2nd blogging assignment grade.

Prodigious = Marvelous; amazing

"...his strength must have been prodigious." -Jonathan, p. 11

Impregnable = Safe against attack

"...so that on three sides it was quite impregnable." -Jonathan, p. 36

Assiduous = Constant in application or attention

"...and I have been practicing shorthand very assiduously." -Jonathan, p. 57

Scythe = An implement with a slightly curved blade at and angle to the handle

"I'm so nigh it that the Aud man is already whettin' his scythe." -Mr. Swales, p. 78

Agglomeration = The action or process of collecting in a mass

"The whole agglomeration of things - the ship steered into port by a dead man; his attitude, tied to the wheel..." -Mina, p. 93

Rod Farrell did not have a normal childhood growing up. As a child he was molested by his biological Grandfather and his mother thought she was a vampire, often bringing him to her cult rituals and sacrifices therefore slowly influencing the games he took part in, like Dungeons and Dragons instead of the normal childhood games of hid and seek, tag ECT. I think there is a connection to both stuff we have learned about vampires and the book Dracula we are reading in class. We have learned that vampires can and some times drink blood, they also kill there victims but they than come back to life as a vampire, last they have a look about them they often have pale skin and darkened skin around the eyes that can look red, sharp looking teeth and red eyes. Now in Dracula we have learned that count was pale and had sharp teeth and bright red lips to me that sounds like a vampire, well based off of what we have learned about vampires so far. A quote comes to mind, in the book Dracula they talk about how the count looks, it is found on page 18 closer to the end of the last paragraph this is said….i could see it under the heavy moustache was a fixed and rather cruel-looking, with peculiarly sharp white teeth ; these protruded over the lips.

Do you think that sounds sort of like what we have learned about vampires??

If you saw someone anyone that looked pale and had sharp teeth would you think they were a vampire???

rising of the dead

In legand vampires are evil creatures that at one time were human but died and came back to life. my main topic is rising of the dead and i couldnt find to much info on it but vampires rise from the grave and feed at night. when they feed it some how makes them youthful so in other words they rise from the dead to feed to stay undead so vampires are like a hell version of a human being and are manly unrested dead people who might not of got a proper burial or some how became one by getting bitten.

Rising of the dead makes you think of vampires or zombies mostly vampires the legand of them went from being very very scary to being kind of a cool thing in some areas. i guess if you get bitten by a vampire you become one of them and get super strength and some other crazy powers the only bad thing is that you have to rest in a coffin all day "the leither wagons contained great square boxes, with handles of thick rope" page 46 because there skin is super light sensative and at night you would have to go hunting for humans to drink there blood so it would pretty much suck to be a vampire it seems all they do is sleep and hunt.

are vampires real?
and is it really possible to rise from the grave after death?

psychic Vampires

Psychic vampires are "alive" today some people say because they don't drink blood the feed on peoples energy like in the video when the girl is feeling up on the other girl she was trying to feed on her energy. I think it is stupid because i don't think there is any thing different from they " Psychic vampires" then from you and me its just they think they have special powers that make people believe in them.

It is like Dracula because Dracula has power over people like in johns case he wants to leave but he can't just say no to Dracula. Then the girl vampires that wanted to feed on John Dracula tell them to get away from him until he is done getting what he wants from him. on page 33 there is a good example of how Dracula is controlling John " i pray you, my good young frined, that you will not discourse of things other then business in your letters. It will doubtless please your firends to know that you are well, and that you look forward to getting hoom to thm. Is that not so??"

1) How do you think that psychic vampires are like Dracula?

2) Do you think that there are real psychic vampires? and why or why not?

Daywalker

We all remember the story about Dracula and many different tales of vampires but what about the people that hunt them..

http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade_(comics)

Blade

occupation.. vampire hunter

Blade was born in a whorehouse in London, England during the ninteenth century. Blades mother Tara Brooks had been bitten and fead off of while she was pregnant with blade by a vampire named Deacon Frost, during labor she died. Frost gave vampire blood to blade from feeding off of his mother while she was pregnant, in doing so blade was able to be half vampire half human. One day blade saw an old man getting attacked by three vampires blade helped the old man that turned out to be a vampire hunter by the name of Jamal Afari. from there the old man taught everything he knew to blade. from that day on blade became known as daywalker by the vampires because he was able to be out during the day like humans but still had the vampire powers.

Bram stoker created the vampire with Dracula but from there vampires have evolved to be so much more powerful, and people along with them to fight and destroy the vampires and not cower in fear. yes vampires have changed from 1897 but they still have the main features just more evolved and modern to what things we have today.

If a Vampire would walk up to you and had a conversation would you know if they were a vampire?

Are Vampire creatures and hunters real or is it all just entertainment?

Early Vampires Lilith

Lilith one of the early vampires, was known to be the first wife of Adam, he tried to make Lilith lie beneath him during sexual intercourse. Also she never wanted to take position as a subservient to Adam since they were both created at the same time by God. Lilith used her sexuality to gather men around her all the time, she was seen as the evil. Although she just wanted to show her womenhood and was against manlyhood of Adam. To learn some more about Lilith go to http://http//www.sacredspiral.com/articles/lm/lilith.htm.



Bram Stroker may have been inspired with all the stories and myths there exsisted back then, and nobody ever tried to make a story out of them. Like in Dracula "Denn die Todten reiten schnell" ("for the dead travel fast" pg.10) was told by the driver taking Jonathan to aplace to catch the carriage to Draculas place. In 1897 vampires were seen as a scary thing, person or just fake. Nowadays vampires are seen as they don't exsist anymore. People even dress up as them for halloween for fun and a way to "scare" people.


In what other stories or hoildays seems to be connected with vampires?

Are vampires/dracula real in this life time? and why?

Dracula Blog Post #1: Vampires

For your first blog post on Dracula, begin by researching your topic chosen from the "Vampire Secrets" video. Once you read a bit about your subject, compose a blog post including the following components...

-A creative yet appropriate title that references your topic.

-A brief explanation of/introduction to your topic as determined by watching "Vampire Secrets" and conducting additional online research.

-In this explanation/intro, include a link to an online source where information was gathered.

-Connect your topic to what we have learned thus far about vampires and/or Count Dracula in Dracula. What may have inspired Bram Stoker? What difference is there between vampires circa 1897 and vampires today?

-In your thoughts connecting your topic to Dracula, be sure to include a quote from the novel (with page number) when referencing a particular scene, character, or description.

-Pose two appropriate open-ended questions to your classmates at the end of your post. Think about your topic: What do we have yet to learn about vampires/Dracula? What other connections are there to make with your topic besides just this novel?

Don't forget to include your initials in the 'Labels' section of your post!