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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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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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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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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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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Replying to @dreamingnoctis @OneiricCanid and
Bram Stoker's novel here, rather than the Universal movie?
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Replying to @mssilverstein @dreamingnoctis and
Like, the Lugosi movie isn't really about an 'immigrant' in the usual sense as a cultural alien, but as a seductive aristocrat.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @dreamingnoctis and
A professor suggested that there's a link between the Dracula movie, and the craze around Rudolph Valentino, the recently-deceased heartthrob.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @OneiricCanid and
Textually, I think the relevant things here are... 1. In the novel, Dracula is in NO way seductive. Just predatory. 2. While he's not culturally alien in the Lugosi film, the novel very much plays up the "foreignness" of Transylvania when Harker visits it, and there's much-
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Replying to @dreamingnoctis @mssilverstein and
-more detail about Dracula being a Székely, for instance. His ancestry is a notable trait of the character which is given a fairly big focus when Harker meets him. While in the Lugosi film he kind of could be from "anywhere" in that his ancestry is rarely mentioned at all.
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By the way, Louis CK is also a Székely That's his real last name, the initials "CK" are his attempt to Anglicize it
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