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Graphic: Animal death, Body horror, Death, Gore, Blood, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Misogyny, Xenophobia, Medical content, Stalking, Death of parent, Classism
Minor: Sexual content, Terminal illness
dracula follows jonathan harker's diary entries to translyvania to meet the purchaser of a property in london, count dracula, at his secluded estate. cue a dissent into potential madness from Jonathan as he slowly realizes that something is afoot in this dark and mysterious (and lowkey empty like get some furniture miss dracula) castle.
okay so i LOVED this book for multiple reasons. i loved reading the book that has been considered the beginning of our modern vampire. i can see many of the now stereotypes of a vampire that were so fresh in this book. i loved the writing!! each of the chapters were exerpts from character's diaries, news clippings, and business agreements that painted a fascinating picture of dracula: the man, the myth, the legend. at times, it even felt like a fantastical but realistic murder mystery that used deduction, wit, and intellection to catch dracula red-handed. i liked the characters too!! my favorite was probably van helsing, the eccentric dutch doctor that helps our motley crew to define truth and find answers. i also really liked mina up until she became one-dimensional, god-fearing, and subordinate to the men ://// it's a classic for a reason i guess :////
i think this book is one that can be discussed from multiple angles and perspectives for meaningful insights. as I've been reading Irish authors for my, ahem, IRISH YEAR, i have found an overarching theme of otherness being discussed in different forms. i think an interesting read of this book would be one of dracula as a foreigner rather than a threat. someone who is coming to a new country in hope of a new life, only to be ostracized, exiled, and ultimately murdered for being different. it's giving xenophobia!
Graphic: Torture, Violence, Stalking, Murder
Moderate: Confinement, Blood
Minor: Xenophobia
Minor: Addiction, Death, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Blood, Cannibalism, Stalking, Murder, Injury/Injury detail
Graphic: Ableism, Body horror, Gore, Mental illness, Terminal illness, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Stalking
Graphic: Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Animal death, Drug use, Gun violence, Suicide, Torture, Kidnapping, Cannibalism, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Classism
Minor: Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Dementia, Suicide attempt, Alcohol, War
Graphic: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Body horror, Child death, Confinement, Death, Emotional abuse, Gore, Mental illness, Misogyny, Racism, Sexism, Suicidal thoughts, Torture, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Xenophobia, Blood, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Stalking, Death of parent, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Cannibalism, Gaslighting
Minor: Gun violence
Moderate: Death, Mental illness, Blood
Minor: Gore, Grief, Stalking
I grew up loving gothic stories, especially those that included vampires. “Dracula” is truly just one of the best. For a story over a century old, it reads so easily. With lovable characters, an eerie setting, and an engaging plot, what’s there to go wrong???
Graphic: Death, Mental illness, Blood, Murder, Injury/Injury detail
Moderate: Sexism, Xenophobia, Stalking
Minor: Death of parent, War
I loved all the different gothic/horror elements Dracula included, as I was only expecting the vampire element. There was asylums with mentally ill people, hypnosis, sleepwalking, missing children, cemeteries, breaking into graves, castles and of course Vampires.
I liked all the characters, and the relationships that grew between them, especially Mina and Lucy, Van Helsing and John Seward, and Van Helsing and Mina. Mina is so smart and cute and Van Helsing and Seward were all my favourite characters. Jonathan Harker's journals at the beginning were so funny and fun to read, and I like how they were the foundation for the rest of the story. It's so cute how they all read each other's diaries, and I liked how they all became a sort of found family in the second half of the book.
Overall, it was a good book, and I would recommend to anyone who is up for a 400 page classic, and who likes Vampires and books with a gothic setting.
Moderate: Animal death, Mental illness, Misogyny, Forced institutionalization, Grief, Stalking, Schizophrenia/Psychosis
Minor: Body horror, Death, Drug use, Blood, Kidnapping
Graphic: Death, Violence, Blood, Murder
Moderate: Sexism, Medical content, Stalking, Injury/Injury detail