am moving through the novel well now and have just got past chapter 11. i found that in this period the books got alot more intresting, ( more like it was when i was reading about Dracula and his castle, before Mina's diary extracts were introduced). i feel that part of the reason that i am enjoying reading the novel at present is that Bram Stoker has created tension well. i think that the Dramatic irony used in the novel has kept me reading on. we the reader know why these strange goings on are happening to Lucy yet the characters do not, we also know why Dr stewards Patient is suddenly acting strangly but he does not. i think that we as the reader want to see the point that the characters realise what Dracula is doing and when they discover his power.
The character Van Helsing also interests me as i have seen him portrayed in a film, however in that film he was shown as a action hero who was young and slayed vampires as a day job. it came as a suprise to me that in this novel he was an old man who was calm and very clever.
im starting to see some of the Vampire sterotypes come through the novel now and Dracula is becoming more like the Vampire that i expected him to be. namely when Lucy has garlic put around her room. i would like to know whether people of the time this was written would know about these ideas like vampires are scared of garlic and that they can turn into bats. because i think if they were aware of these concepts this would add to the dramatic irony that Bram Stoker is creating as the characters can't make sense of these things but the reader would be able to. i enjoy it when these ideas are mentioned in the book. makes Dracula seem like a more familiar character to me.
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