EN 3170 Lecture Notes - High Tech, Fifth Business, Typewriter
Document Summary
Literary form/genre: the epistolary novel (it"s written in the form of letters); results in ability for multiple narrators, different opinions/views/accounts--> seen through different eyes; dracula is a novel about perceptions--it"s also a novel about senses, particularly smell. None of these narrators (these are dramatic narrators) are reliable because they are not omniscient. Certain problems emerge in the beginning, and are addressed in the latter parts of the book. As harker crosses through buda into pesth, he starts to hear and see odd things; he crosses into the world of the exotic--even the people look weird to him; also, the spices and clothes there are weird/foreign/exotic. Dracula"s castle is real, but not known--> it is not on a map; harker is journeying into disorientation; the longer he"s in the castle, the more confused and feminine he becomes. What is bad needs to be killed off.
