Dec. 10, 2008

Laconically=Using a minimum of words, to get to the point.

Themes: Sexuality/Promiscuity/Purity
New vs. Old
Maturity and Modernity/Antiquiety
Religion

Our protaganists begin their epic journey back to the starting point of our story: Translyvania and there, Dracula's castle. The Count must travel by sea, lugging his last coffin with him, an inconvenience which is a slower route than our heroes who are to travel on land, taking the path of least resistance from France. It is a race to the finish which inultimately will end in the life of the seeming immortal Count or the lives of our revenge-bent heroes.

The trivial banter which accompanies the trip must make it easier for our heroes to bear the upcoming battle. Even preparation for their deaths as Mina asks Jonathan to read aloud their burial plans keeps their minds occupied and from sinking into a recessive depression and feelings of hopelessness. Communication by telegrams alert the clan to the location of their oppresser and so they are to be prepared this time so as not to experience another such detrimentality as the backfire of a structurally weak attack plan. Dracula will not escape this time, they are in the know and time is on their side. They have no coffin to carry, weighted by the soil they now travel on in a frantic race to to beat the clock.

Nov. 25, 2008

"Kiss her dead lips if you will, as she would have you do, if for her to choose. For she is not a grinning devil now-not any more a foul thng for all eternity. No longer she is the devil's un-dead. She is God's true dead, whose soul is with Him!" (P.229)

Lucy is no longer victim to Dracula's cruelties. She no longer poses threat to those around her and can finally rest her soul at God's feet at whom shall guard it indispensably. Kiss her dead lips now if you wish, for she has no valour nor need to attack now, she is no longer Dracula's un-dead; captive to his treacherous voodooism; she is at last God's true dead, released from captivity and allowed to rest in peace.