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#it's not just a slapdash of bad things = not christian so count = repelled by christian stuff
senadimell
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Been catching up on Dracula Daily and wow. There is a whole lot of Christian biblical imagery going on, especially references to the Gospels.
#dracula daily
#christianity
#the mina feeding scene is the first time we really confront him and wow! stoker is really pouring on the allusions
#(the count that is)
#we've got perverse eucharist
#we've got legion/possessing animals rather than casting out demons
#we've got language mimicking the temple mount temptations
#(all these lives i will give you if you fall down and worship me)
#and then (not gospels but biblical) we've got pillar of cloud/pillar of fire imagery going on
#and *enoch walked with god* coming from renfield
#reverse walking on water? count can't cross running water
#and the conception of dead is structured like an anti-resurrection
#(i.e. immortal life but not immortal soul; see renfield's differentiation between life and soul)
#i mean i thought i knew about christian imagery and vampires but now the pieces fall together
#it's not just a slapdash of bad things = not christian so count = repelled by christian stuff
#but no. his whole characterization is wreathed in christian imagery.
#ETA: oh also (forgot the line that made me want to post this) mina's "unclean* line
#about being made unclean (by issue of blood) by interaction with the count
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