ENG feedback 4

How is Dracula a novel about making sense of the world?

Writer 1

The novel Dracula shows the difference between the modern, technical society and the old traditional society. The old society was based on the superstitions and myths. The new era and society is centralized on the facts and the theories that prove these facts. Modern society is more likely to be based on science rather than superstition based society.

The story stress more on the old society and refer new society to be very wrong in running in science too much that to forget the myths and superstitions that has guided it since a long times that this world exist. Every character in the story stress that the old society is better than the new one. According to people, the society is on the edge because people are leaving behind their moral values going in science due to which whole of the Christianity and its values are at stake. People are forgetting what the god and religion had taught them and now they consider that the only thing taught to them right is taught by science. But the whole story lies on the centralized theme that one should not forget old customs, myths and superstitions which has guided us all since long time just for science which is new thing of modern era

REFERENCES:-

        Dracula. Mineola: Dover publications, 2000. Print.

Writer 2

In this novel it seems like Harker is continuously trying to make sense of the foreign world that he has traveled to. Immediately upon his arrival, the innkeeper warns him of a foreign day known as St. George Day, and she goes on to say, ““It is the eve of St. George’s Day. Do you not know that to-night, when the clock strikes midnight, all the evil things in the world will have full sway?”  He is then given a crucifix for protection. His religious belief is Anglican, so he doesn’t understand what the object will do, nor what the day means. During his journey to Count Dracula’s Castle he notices “blue Flames” that he has no understanding of, which causes him fear of the unknown.

Upon Arrival Harker notices a few things he cannot make sense of. For one, there are no mirrors inside the Counts home. His confusion deepens once he happens to have a mirror of his own out while shaving, and notices the Count has no reflection,“ But there was no reflection of him in the mirror!” It seems the only way Harker will make sense of the things he has encountered is to fall victim of his suspicion that Count Dracula is in fact a vampire. He later realizes that he is the Count’s prisoner. Being prisoner makes Harker’s sense of everything unclear. He writes, “I am surely in the toils.” After the Count asked him to write three letters and predate them by nearly a month. Harker’s sense of this ‘new’ world is next-to-none given valuable and useful truths that would clear his confusion.