Augustin's Notes on Dracula, Chapter 3: Horror
Chapter 3 Dracula Horror : graphic depictions of violence + supernatural intervention / death + degradation Terror (which gothic writers Ann Radcliff considered superior): sense of dread unknown. Obscurity is necessary. Dread : fear of what will happen next “Dread of this place” (p41) and “a dread_ loneliness” (the use of the noun dread as an adjective emphasizes the importance of these two words). Madness: “May I not go mad, if I am not already mad” (p43) In the 19 th century gothic, the body itself is the site of haunting and transgressed. Ch. 3 brings a weird contact with the idea of terror and horror (see difference in the definitions above). Task: find quotes supporting those thesis Jonathan: Helpless “behaved like a rat in a trap” (p.34) -> animal imagery, and a trapped rat is dead “I was a prisoner” (p.34) “I am in prison” (p.34) “I am deceived like a baby” (p. 34) -> being a baby is not a good thing in that novel “My helplessness overpowered all other feelings” (