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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. 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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    2. 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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    3. 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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    4. 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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    5. 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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    6. 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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    7.  🌙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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    8. 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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    9. 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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    10. 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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      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 26 Sep 2020
      Replying to @OneiricCanid @dreamingnoctis and

      Enh If it's there in Stoker, it's deep, deep subtext At no point does the book actually have the brevet transition into realizing that the British House of Lords are the same thing as Dracula

      3:05 PM - 26 Sep 2020
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        1. His Bark Materials  🌌‏ @OneiricCanid 26 Sep 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @dreamingnoctis and

          I mean it doesn't really have to. That would have been clear to anyone reading it back then — nobility was nobility, and most of the landed gentry in Europe were at least distantly related to each other. It reads a lot more strongly that way if you're not American, I think?

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

          Yeah, I mean see my comments elsewhere. The story is, basically, one set of wealthy people protecting their turf from another one because the other one is a foreign undesirable.

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

          It's New British Bourgeois vs Old Continental Aristocracy, essentially. Dracula is painted as orientalist and foreign and weird, but part of the horror is how easy it is for "feudal" bloodsucking to happen to Fine Upstanding People Like Us. That's a class-system anxiety too!

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