Response 5

Before we even began to start reading Dracula we all had our own visions of what a vampire looks like the skills and abilities they possess. To a surprise Dracula had a rather unique description of the  way he had looked a bit different than what we are used to seeing in a movie, like the way his hairy palms are described in the text. Aside from this we can all associate rather well the Gothic elements which preceded to be present in this text as well as all the previous ones. From the large castle with all the locked doors to the spooky nights with vampires all going bump in the night. This text in particular i feel had a more underlying queer Gothic text to it in the scene where the 3 female vampires where on top of Johnathan . In the regular text we can see and visualize from Johnathan’s perspective that its the becoming of a rather sexual scene and that these three lady’s are all being played into a continuous trope which we see in the Gothic reads. But if we take a step away and examine this through the perspective of the vampires we can see that this is a queer Gothic text that the female vampires are the ones in control they are the predators and they take a dominant role here, rather than being just sexual “play-toys” they are much rather here looking for a quick bite to eat (Johnathan) .These are just some of the main highlights in the novel for now.