{"id":1906,"date":"2021-10-27T23:52:57","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T03:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/?p=1906"},"modified":"2021-10-27T23:52:57","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T03:52:57","slug":"jonathans-conflicting-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/2021\/10\/27\/jonathans-conflicting-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan&#8217;s Conflicting Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bram Stoker\u2019s, Dracula, emphasizes sexuality throughout the novel.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>One passage that this occurs in is Chapter three on pages 45 and 46 where Jonathan Harker is awoken by three women standing next to him.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The three of them try and seduce him to almost draining his blood, \u201cthe soft, shivering touch of the lips on the supersensitive skin of my throat.. ,\u201d (46) until Dracula intrudes and declares that he belongs to him.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This is the first act in the novel that is close to supernatural where Jonathan is the victim of these vampire women. Jonathan begins to comment on their beauty and his lust for them, yet with each positive description, it is followed with conflicting thoughts, \u201cThere was a deliberate voluptuousness which was both thrilling and repulsive..\u201d (45).<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>These conflicting thoughts that Jonathan is having shows that he is afraid of what they could do to him due to the aggression that females can withhold.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>However, it seems that this quality both attracts yet frightens him, and he still pursues their attention. I think that Dracula inhibits the idea of beauty, sexuality, and power.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>In the victorian literature we have read so far; Lady Audley, My Last Duchess, etc., women seem to have an underlying power over men due to their beauty and sexuality.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span>Victorians emphasised the importance of women\u2019s beauty in the social aspect with how they had to appear to the public eye <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>These women definitely have power over Jonathan due to his heightened feeling of fear and the attraction it brings, \u201cThere was something about them that made me uneasy, some longing and at the same time some deadly fear, \u201c(46). Thus explaining that he feels uneasy and unsatisfied towards these women, yet he still desires the sexual tension and potential relationships with them.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0It will be interesting to see how women and\u00a0sexuality play a role, especially in a more fantasy\/horror and\u00a0gothic novel.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bram Stoker\u2019s, Dracula, emphasizes sexuality throughout the novel.\u00a0 One passage that this occurs in is Chapter three on pages 45 and 46 where Jonathan Harker is awoken by three women standing next to him.\u00a0 The three of them try and seduce him to almost draining his blood, \u201cthe soft, shivering touch of the lips on &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/2021\/10\/27\/jonathans-conflicting-thoughts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jonathan&#8217;s Conflicting Thoughts<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4764,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[169398],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2021-blog-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906","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\/4764"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}