Dracula 3

It seems really obvious to us what is going on with Dracula, what he is, as the book goes on.  The boxes of earth in the tunnel leading from Dracula's room, not being allowed to fall asleep in any room other then his own, everything.  We have a very clear concept of the vampire at this point in time, it's nothing new.  So our dread comes from him not leaving the castle, not figuring it out.  It's like in a horror movie when we know that someone is about to be eaten by a monster or stabbed by the killer and we want to scream get out get out!  Because it hasn't all been from their point of view and we saw the last person who was killed.  But for the then population of England imagine how terrifying this novel must have been.  They saw only what the main character saw knew only what he knew, vampires weren't as defined and obvious they didn't have the same distinctive persona yet, because it was the book Dracula that gave it that.  So they had no way in the world of knowing what would happen and the book was, a result, much more scary to  them because it was more foreign.  Further in, I think it was, chapter three, when the character is aproached by the women it is even more strange to the readers.  Their idea of a women is very prim and proper and this, a women unabashedly approaching him in such a way, is unheard of.  We fear the unknown the uncommon and this book certianly was such in that time period.  Then when Dracula provides them the half dead child they are further removed from the common idea of a women, we loose the idea they could be mothers, and protective of children because it seems they are going to kill this one.  As we know, drink their blood, and though I can't be sure the original readers of this book would have figured out exactly what would happen to the child yet certianly they would know it wouldn't be good.  So another fear, beyond just death or imprisinment even, has arrisen in the readers mind.  This Dracula controls these women and now he is a threat to society as well.