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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 26 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @dreamingnoctis and

      All his teachers tell him that he's just grabbing stuff from long-disproved authors from hundreds of years ago and putting it together in contradictory ways, he's a total crackpot For the sake of the story this is necessary, Victor's discovery is more madness than reason

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    2. Baal Ska Tov‏ @mssilverstein 26 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @dreamingnoctis and

      Yeah. I mean, it’s an odd one too, because there’s no traditional monster to match a Frankenstein. It’s from one book, and known from one movie

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    3. Baal Ska Tov‏ @mssilverstein 26 Sep 2020
      Replying to @mssilverstein @arthur_affect and

      There are analogs - golems, robots - but not quite a mythos

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    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 26 Sep 2020
      Replying to @mssilverstein @dreamingnoctis and

      Unlike Dracula, where the theme is that Dracula is this ancient folkloric tradition from this creepy primitive country invading the new modern world, the whole theme of Frankenstein as a work of literature revolves around the horror of modernity creating a truly brand new thing

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    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 26 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and

      You can call Frankenstein's monster a kind of zombie or "flesh golem" or whatever you want to call it but by doing that you're destroying the whole point of the story All of the angst and horror is because Victor supposedly did something that's never been done before

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    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 26 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and

      Even the whole "It's just called Frankenstein's MONSTER" joke is about this fact The Creature is so angsty because not only does he personally not have a name, he doesn't even have a name for THE KIND OF THING THAT HE IS

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    7. His Bark Materials  🌌‏ @OneiricCanid 26 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and

      I disagree about Dracula's themes! You're right about Frankenstein and the horror of the Creature being drawn from the shock of the new — Mankind's penetrating too far into Nature's secrets and creating new and horrifying! It's why Victor recoils when he truly sees the Creature.

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    8. His Bark Materials  🌌‏ @OneiricCanid 26 Sep 2020
      Replying to @OneiricCanid @arthur_affect and

      But the horror of Dracula is about class. It's a very direct allegory of the "nobility as leeches" idea — "man discovers landed gentry quite literally sucking the life out of the peasants they rule, returns home to find the same monsters are now doing it there too."

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    9.  🌙Radical Dreamingnoctis ⭐ 🔞-Battra stan.‏ @dreamingnoctis 26 Sep 2020
      Replying to @OneiricCanid @arthur_affect and

      I'm not saying this isn't in it, but Dracula was also primarily a work of a subgenre or at least trend of "invasion literature" that was mostly rooted in Victorian fear of immigration. That's kinda of conceptually, culturally, and textually the foremost anxiety seen in the novel.

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    10. His Bark Materials  🌌‏ @OneiricCanid 26 Sep 2020
      Replying to @dreamingnoctis @arthur_affect and

      I'm not saying that's not one source of fear for some readers, but the "vampires as an allegory for the ruling class" angle is so effective that Marx uses it in his writings decades prior to Dracula being published. Class conflict was a hot issue in 1897 as well!

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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 26 Sep 2020
      Replying to @OneiricCanid @dreamingnoctis and

      Sure but Stoker was absolutely trading on xenophobia as the primary thing going on in Dracula, not class conflict The big scary thing is Dracula *coming to London*, not coming back and finding out that Queen Victoria is also a vampire

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        2. His Bark Materials  🌌‏ @OneiricCanid 26 Sep 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @dreamingnoctis and

          The orientalism and foreignness as a source of fear in the text is definitely a thing, for sure. But the "it comes back with you" thing isn't /solely/ a fear of the Other. It's "oh shit they're like that here too".

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        3. His Bark Materials  🌌‏ @OneiricCanid 26 Sep 2020
          Replying to @OneiricCanid @arthur_affect and

          It's not like these interpretations are mutually exclusive or anything. I'm not arguing Stoker's novel doesn't use xenophobic coding for Dracula or it isn't a source of horror for a Victorian audience. But you're missing a lot if you discount the class read on it.

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        2.  🌙Radical Dreamingnoctis ⭐ 🔞-Battra stan.‏ @dreamingnoctis 26 Sep 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @OneiricCanid and

          It's also notable perhaps that the people fighting Dracula...a doctor, a lawyer/legal something or other, a Texas oil baron (basically), "Lord Holmwood", and another doctor, aren't exactly commoners/working class people fighting back against an established aristocrat.

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        3.  🌙Radical Dreamingnoctis ⭐ 🔞-Battra stan.‏ @dreamingnoctis 26 Sep 2020
          Replying to @dreamingnoctis @arthur_affect and

          Hell if anything you can actually read the conflict as established British aristocracy/wealth/higher regraded occupations (and their American ally/enabler) fighting back against someone they see as a danger to their entrneched power. It's upper class vs. upper class in a way.

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