Dracula: Chapter 9
Ch 9 The importance of friendship, of sharing one's thoughts, and reactions to the natural world. The idea of being "interested" in madness. Movement of all characters Mina writes to Lucy from Budapest. .. where she has traveled to meet Jonathan who is "so pale and thin-looking." He is a "wreck of himself" (like the boats in previous chapter). Sister Agatha says the "ravings of the sick were the secrets of God" and that J's "fear was of great and terrible things, which no mortal can treat of" (p114). Mina's real name is Wilhelmina.. Jonathan gives Mina his journal so that she can share in his secrets and his ignorance.. and to marry him that very afternoon ! She agrees to marry him, but NOT to read the journal which she wraps up as a "visible sign that they trust each other" (p116). Odd sentence, Jonathan says he would go though "all the past again to win" her love and trust, and Mina thinks he means