Calling out for reactions to Dracula (1 Viewer)

[HEAD0011]

Hi guys,
We have an assessment at school where we must make a reader and author centred response to a text. I've decided to do Dracula for my text. So... what I'm looking for is anyone's reactions to the text-anything at all, because I want to be able to look across a wide spectrum of responses and attempt to judge whether my own reactions are concurrent with invited readings or not...
So,
thanks, hope to hear from you soon

 

[AmieLea]

dracula is AWESOME!!! however, i don't think that's the response you're after lol

personally though, i dont like it how the story line is conveyed through letters, diaries, as it tends to jump around and it's abit confusing.

i also think that Stoker should've added it from dracula's perpective, like Mary Shelley does with Frankenstein. it would've just given it a tad more, OOMP. and it would've been more interesting to read draculas justification of his deeds, ie maybe it was for revenge, he cant control his bloodlust, i dont know. though, in the society in which he wrote it, they wouldn't have liked that very much. they would've just wanted a clear cut discription of what's evil, what's not, and then wanted it dead.

also, if you're talking about a modern audience, the dialogue is very long winded in some (most) areas. and the language may be difficult for some readers to understand.

hope that's what you're after, good luck!!! :wave:

 

[HEAD0011]

Thanks, that's exactly what I'm looking for. And any comments will really help.

 

[le Mali]

I liked the epistolary format - its different to most of what is out there at the moment. I did find it boring and labourious to get through.
But I have an increased understanding of the urban legend from it. (To be honest, I enjoyed a vampire novel that wasn't mushy Twilight-esque goo)

Mina annoyed me, she's Stokers little representation of all that he thinks women should be which is the traditional old Victorian view. From my post-femminism context, it's stupid and irritating.

I struggled to picture Dracula as a character, the description is just so at odds with the stereotype.

I thought it was all a bit fluffed up and long winded. The characters are all very self important and very very English. I often struggled to grasp what was going on when the pace got faster, couldn't picture what they were doing etc.

It's been a long while since I read the book, so I'm sorry I can't give a more detailed explanation.

 

[thongetsu]

i heard dracula likes to collect stamps.

 

[EternalFlame]

well we did dracula for yr 11 and we spent AGES ON IT. If it helps I would say that the text itself greatly reporesented the way sexuality was supressed in the victoria era. The text shows it through the legend really effectlively. I agree me LeMali, mina was really irritating. I found that watching coppola's transfromation of Dracula added to my interpretation and ways of interepting dracula. So i'd say give that a watch.