{"id":1251,"date":"2018-10-30T17:41:10","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T21:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/?p=1251"},"modified":"2018-10-30T17:41:10","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T21:41:10","slug":"fancy-me-a-cup-of-three-will-ya-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/2018\/10\/30\/fancy-me-a-cup-of-three-will-ya-please\/","title":{"rendered":"Fancy me a cup of three will ya please?"},"content":{"rendered":"

While reading Dracula by Bram Stoker there has been some <\/span><\/span>really <\/span><\/span>interesting<\/span><\/span> points being made about 19th\u00a0century culture being <\/span><\/span>portrayed<\/span><\/span> in the writing and how social roles are being changed in the book and during the time period as well. <\/span><\/span>However,<\/span><\/span>\u00a0one <\/span><\/span>aspect<\/span><\/span> of the book has always <\/span><\/span>intrigued<\/span><\/span> me from the start and that is the fact that there are three \u201cwitches\u201d that Jonathan Harker meets <\/span><\/span>towards<\/span><\/span> the end of chapter three. I found this very exciting because in one of my favorite plays, Macbeth by William\u00a0Shakespeare. In this play there\u2019re three witches that lure Macbeth into a quite a horrible person. I get a sense that this will be the case in Dacula because of the first interaction that Jonathan had with them. <\/span><\/span>However,<\/span><\/span> putting <\/span><\/span>aside,<\/span><\/span> the characters for a moment I wanted to focus on the number three for a second. I did some <\/span><\/span>research<\/span><\/span> into why the number three comes up in writing a lot and wheat I found <\/span><\/span>intrigued<\/span><\/span>\u00a0me. The number three represents in <\/span><\/span>some cultures<\/span><\/span> a <\/span><\/span>beginning<\/span><\/span>, a <\/span><\/span>middle, and<\/span><\/span> an<\/span><\/span> end but what I found most important is the fact that some cultures believe that humans have a spirit, a soul, and a body. After reading this I completely understand why in a text like Dracula and Macbeth why a writer might have the antagonist of the story to have something to do with three because not only could you hide the <\/span><\/span>character<\/span><\/span>\u00a0in three personalities you could have three different horrific events lead up to a final problem, like a beginning middle and an end. The possibilities are <\/span><\/span>numerous<\/span><\/span>. I\u2019m very <\/span><\/span>excited to see how this book plays out in terms of using the number three.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While reading Dracula by Bram Stoker there has been some really interesting points being made about 19th\u00a0century culture being portrayed in the writing and how social roles are being changed in the book and during the time period as well. However,\u00a0one aspect of the book has always intrigued me from the start and that is … Continue reading Fancy me a cup of three will ya please?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3891,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125359],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2018-blog-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3891"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}