A Guide to Bram Stoker's Dracula ¦ Summary & Biography ¦ Ep.1
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.ย. 2024
- In the first episode of this reader's guide to Dracula by Bram Stoker, I provide an in depth summary of the book, and give some insight into Stoker's life and how it is reflected in this Gothic classic.
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This is such a nice analysis done by you, much after the series of Wuthering Heights. Can you also make a video on Mill on the Floss?
🦇🌹Thank You for doing this series, "Dracula" is a favorite of mine and you really are doing a great service to Bram Stoker by mentioning his other works.
It's appropriate that you would do these episodes so close to Walpurgisnacht ( May Eve ), a significant night of revelry for witches and warlocks, a night that plays a part in Stoker's novel and in many film adaptions.
I can't wait for the rest of this series.....as usual Great Job !
"I never drink.......wine."🩸🍷
Thank you, I'm glad that you think so! :)
I love all your series! Dracula was one of the first English books I read. This video made me want to reread it 👀
Thanks, I'm glad you liked the video, and hope you reread the book! :)
Hello Joshua! Excellent start to the DRACULA series. In fact, it is one of the most important Gothic novels ever written that remarkably still influences society today. I think Stoker´s DRACULA is a mix of the real Vlad Tepes and Henry Irving. His relationship with Irving seemed to be more like : "Master/Servant". Along with all the influences of his time, education, desires, studies, views on science, women, sexuality, etc. Sadly like so many other authors had no acknowledgement while still living, but his Wicked Transylvanian Count would not stay dormant for long. Thank You and take care:-)
Thank you, glad you enjoyed the video :)
Your channel is seriously amazing. I have recommended it in a classic literature group on FB. I have watched your Dracula and Wuthering Heights series several times as I can't get enough of them 😅 You're simply amazing at analyzing books and talking about literature. I know I could talk about my favourite books for days and days without ever getting tired of it, so it's very satisfying to follow your channel, it is a very immersive experience where we keep experiencing the greatness and magic of the book even after having read it.
I hope one day you will make a series about Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. That would be fantastic 🤩
Thank you! I'm glad that you find the reader's guide series helpful. I really enjoy making them so there will be more to come.
One on Shelley's Frankenstein sounds like a great idea. I'll think about it! :)
Good refresher course on Dracula! Had kinda forgotten the story, seen most of the movies, read book, liked how you use the movie clips from the 1992 version to illustrate.
The Annie Lennox song “Love Song for a Vampire” is so good from that movie. Always been a favorite tune of mine.
Are you going to talk about the religious/Christianity/Catholic aspects of Dracula, i.e. holy water, Crucifixes etc, or the garlic, stake in heart, severing head etc and why that is part of vampire lore?
I hadn't thought about talking more generally about vampire lore, more specifically just Dracula. Though of course that is a part of the story, so I might do.
I agree that including stills from Coppola's adaptation is the best choice. I remember reading the novel for the first time in my early teens and watching that movie soon afterward, so for me, the two are inseparable. Surely, it was the first vampire fiction I was exposed to, and there couldn't be a better starting point.
BTW, thank you for showing Renfield, as it's none other than the great Tom Waits who played the part. The straitjacket and the hairdo nicely match his musical aesthetics from that period - namely, "Bone Machine" album. 🙂
Dracula wasn't gay. LOL But I'll be interested to hear more of your guides. Thanks for part 1
Glad you liked the video! My argument in the video on Dracula and sexuality isn't that Dracula is gay, but that there are ambiguities between sexuality and the hunting impulses, and that there are ambiguities and possibly something homoerotic about the relationship between Jonathan and Dracula. To call it homosexual in the way we use that term now doesn't really capture what I'm getting at. But anyway, hope you find the episodes interesting. :)
@@JoshuaJClarkeKelsall I always enjoy your vids. I wrote that while I was still watching your video, and should have gone back to edit it after I finished, but I forgot. Yes I can see the Jonathan connection and almost hoped that Keanu Reeves would have been seduced in that bed by male vampires but, it was still erotic anyway. :)