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Saturday, November 04, 2006

Dracula

The other one was "Dracula" by Bram Stoker. I know this character, Dracula, the most famous vampire (a dead person who leaves his or her grave at night to suck the blood of living people), but I don't know this story.

We read just one scene in which Mr. Harker went into Count Dracula's house. The depiction was so frightening with sound effects (e.g. "There was the sound of rattling chains and the clanking of massive bolts drawn back") that really thrilled with horror. And his way of speaking! His English is excellent, but with a strange intonation. It must be Rumanian accent, because Dracula is from Transylvania, the teacher said. "Welcome to my house! Enter freely and of your own will!" This line (your own will) suggests some risk, because it means you enter the house with your responsibility. Ooh, it's scary, scary!
http://www.isis.ne.jp/mnn/senya/senya0380.html

Vampires have a lot of images according to folklores worldwide, but after Bram Stoker's Dracula gets so popular, Dracula is a kind of its stereotype, and Dracula got to be a classic of gotic and horror novel. Speaking of vampire, I remember one manga, "The Family Poe" by Moto Hagio. I guess Count Dracula is just a frightening monster in "Dracula", but I found some tragedic image toward vampires in "The Family Poe".
http://www.isis.ne.jp/mnn/senya/senya0621.html

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