{"id":2055,"date":"2021-11-15T23:06:04","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T04:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/?p=2055"},"modified":"2021-11-15T23:06:04","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T04:06:04","slug":"the-remembrance-of-mr-morris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/2021\/11\/15\/the-remembrance-of-mr-morris\/","title":{"rendered":"The Remembrance of Mr. Morris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout Dracula, we see that there is a big overarching concept of religion and Christianity as well as the themes of good and evil. There is an emphasis on crucifixion and rosaries in the novel, where crucifixions are a way to rid vampires.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>This can be seen when Jonathan goes to meet with Dracula and later has to use a crucifix that the was given to protect himself from the Count, and or evil.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>This can show that using the power of religion through crucification can be used to turn away any evil.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Another imagery is Blood, where blood can be seen as to heal oneself and rebirth.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>This is also why Dracula is seen as evil, because in order to gain youthfulness and power, his thirst for blood simply takes away one\u2019s life.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Dracula repeats, \u201cblood is life\u201d multiple times, thus giving him sustenance, power, and strength.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>At the very end of Dracula, the passage shows them at the Counts coffin, where Jonathan cuts off his head and Mr. Morris stabs him in the heart.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>As they finally kill Dracula, they have successfully succeeded over evil and save Mina.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>In doing so, Mr. Morris gets injured helping Mina, where he then sacrifices his life, \u201cIt was worth this to die!\u201d (401). This whole passage gives a good look at religion in Dracula, where the \u201cmen sank on their knees and a deep and earnest \u2018Amen\u2019 Broke from all,\u201d (401), as the mark on her forehead leaves. Self sacrificing is found when one puts their own life on the line in order to save others and thus Mr. Morris died a \u201cgallant gentleman,\u201d (401).<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout Dracula, we see that there is a big overarching concept of religion and Christianity as well as the themes of good and evil. There is an emphasis on crucifixion and rosaries in the novel, where crucifixions are a way to rid vampires.\u00a0 This can be seen when Jonathan goes to meet with Dracula and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/2021\/11\/15\/the-remembrance-of-mr-morris\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Remembrance of Mr. Morris<\/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-2055","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\/2055","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=2055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}