EN119 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Vlad Ii Dracul, Information Technology, Empiricism
Document Summary
Today: characters; dracula the monster , evil: feudal past vs good: technological future. Society: every individual has a responsibility, but when they come together, they have a group responsibility to respond to change. Vlad tepes (vlad dracul: stoker was looking for a more historical connection for his novel, stoker was in whitby & comes across story about vlad the impaler. Impailed heads on spikes: elizabeth (in his bloodline) had servants blood drained to bathe in, historical grounding for actual heirarchial oppression. Eponymous: defines and describes a work of fiction which takes its title from the main character, ex. Information technologies: phonograph, typewriter, journals, novel is about how information technologies are used to defeat. Circulation/communication (theme: needles (motif) vs fangs (motif, progress (theme) vs primitivism (theme) Hear sound of water when he is on the boat: all information of manuscript is not lost because mina made copies, their use of technology defeats dracula, typewriter to make copies, mesmerism.
