books im studying for my alevels lol

the reasons draculas doors are all locked is because that’s where he’s keeping his other soliciters.

thinking about how ophelia’s line "like sweet bells jangled out of tune and harsh” is ten syllables long, which sets it up to be perfect iambic pentameter (five pairs of unstressed/stressed syllables, i.e. "like sweet bells jangled out of tune and harsh"), but instead the scansion works out to "like sweet bells jangled out of tune and harsh," breaking the pentameter and making the line itself a sweet bell jangled out of tune

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Again you all are missing the point, and missing out on the true comedy of this novel which is: for as strangely cheerful as Jonathan is he IS genre savvy and he DOES think something horrible might happen to him. The last two entries ended with him hoping desperately he'll get to see his family again. Not the words of someone unaware of the danger he's in. The comedy of Dracula is how he looks at the warning signs, SEES them, and his reaction is just to be like ":/. I guess this what I signed up for when I became a real estate agent. Should I have seen this coming?" Like this man is willing to risk joining the legions of the undead if that's where his line of work takes him. Furthermore his naturally buoyant spirit heightens the comedy bc his mind is like "Am I about to die? Man I love my fiance she's the best! Am I about to die? These mountains are gorgeous! Am I about to die? These locals are so kindhearted! Am I about to die? This chicken is really good! Am I about to die? My boss likes me!!! Am I about to die?

Lots of “rip to Jonathon Harker but I’m different” posts going around the Dracula daily tag. I’m here to say that I’m NOT different and if I was in a foreign country where everybody was on their knees crying begging me not to go visit a haunted castle I would in fact visit that haunted castle even faster. YES I would regret it YES I would get killed by vampires YES my curiosity is my fatal flaw but at least I wouldn’t have to live through the whole train ride back across Europe second-guessing whether the locals where gaslighting me or not