#we've got legion/possessing animals rather than casting out demons

[senadimell]

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