Dracula

Okay, so I have been reading. I'm sorry i just haven't had a chance to post. So here's one of them. First of all I'd just like to say picturing Dracula with a long white moustacheas described took away from him being intimidating in my opinion. Which is probably why they took that out of the movies. As the book continues Harker is continuously given more facts towards Dracula not being a living creature. He shakes his hand and it's the cold dead firm grip of the undead. But he dismisses it as he dissmissed the carriage ride before hand. He also calls the castle uncanny. He's been brought up to think that he is beyond the kind of things like believing in vampires and such so he refuses to think like the transilvanians and go back to "primitive thinking". I think that's one of the main themes in the book, a comment on the fact the western world doesn't accept and examine the beliefs of other countries thinking that we're beyond that stage. Anyways I did look up some stuff about Bram Stoker and his story, one thing that kept poping up was Sigmund Frued's essay "The Uncanny" which discusses what brings up the feelings of dread and horror and it's one of two things; when primitve disproved beliefs seem to be proved true, as in the case of Jonathan Harker, or when "repressed infantile complexes are revived". The next day we don't see much of Dracula, I think this has to do with the fact that what our unconcious mind comes up with is going to be scariest to us, not what Bram Stoker thinks is scariest. That's why Jaws is so scary, we never see the shark. Though that was a fluke they couldn't get the thing to work. Hitchcock does the same thing, specifically with psycho. Does it not set off alarm bells that Dracula wants to purchase an old isolated manor surrounded by a lunatic asylum? Really? Harker should be going, um, creeper... And Dracula keeps him up all night then leaves at sun rise? Well Iguess that slightly disturbs him but then he writes it off again. Seriously dude, listen to your instincts. Just wondering, why does Dracula what a mansion near a church? Then of course Harker cuts himself and Dracula almost eats him and gets rid of the mirror. By this point in time any remotely intelligent person would be runnig screaming from the castle. And I think Harker tries, though he's telling himself he's exploring, and finds himself locked in.