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.