Connect

In Chapters 1-4 we see Johnathan Harker making his way to Transylvania to meet Dracula for a Business meeting about the real estate property he, {Dracula} is interested in buying. while on the train he describes the scenery, he says, “Before us lay a green sloping land full of forests and woods, with here and there steep hills, crowned with clumps of trees or with farmhouses, the blank gable end to the road. There was everywhere a bewildering mass of fruit blossom—apple, plum, pear, cherry; and as we drove by I could see the green grass under the trees spangled with the fallen petals.”(Stoker). Johnathan see his surroundings and it seems like a beautiful scenery to the readers. the reading then takes a turn within the chapters we see Johnathan expresses terror when he see the 3 women feeding on something in a sac that is moving he was in fear for his life that he passes out. Jonathan is torn between rationality and sanity. Ann Radcliff describes the sensation of horror and terror in her article, “The Fantastic”. “The Fantastic” is about the difference between terror and horror. she describes terror as, “Burke by his reasoning, anywhere looked to positive horror as a source of the sublime,
though they all agree that terror is a very high one; and where lies the great difference
between horror and terror, but in the uncertainty and obscurity, that accompany the
first, respecting the dreaded evil?” (Radcliff). terror is the Uncertainty that the person feel when the feel like they are going to encounter the worst feeling of terror, Obscurity.  While horror on the other hand is the actually encounter, for example, seeing a murderer pull out a knife, Immersion. This passage in Dracula connects to this definition of terror because Johnathan Harker’s character has encountered all of these literary definitions.