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Thank you We sneak in The modern age a last

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minute we experience the novel coming into the modern age

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and meaning the industrial revolutions and pretty for here At

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this point how does that play out in the novel

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out Does the modern age affect the events in dracula

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Yeah i know that's a really interesting question so one

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of the preoccupations of the gothic gothic novels is this

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difference between new when old So in most gothic novels

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you have a character a modern character quote unquote who

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finds himself or herself in sort of an old ruin

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and olds like place in old castle and it's kind

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of like this this juxtaposition or pairing of modernity and

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sort of a feudal order and dracula really traumatizes Interestingly

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in the beginning chapter So jonathan harker is making this

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trip from from london to transylvania and it sort of

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threw his journal entries He recounts how he's going he's

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on a boat he's on train he's on very like

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highly developed technological modes of transportation for the day And

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then the closer he gets to counsel to castle dracula

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is like on bugging leone codes Dracula picks him up

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at the borgo pass codes and then it sort of

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as he's leaving the modern west he's back in the

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sort of the ancient old east The old is kind

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of this almost mystical power Yeah exactly It smokes the

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nude and you know the literary work I think of

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when i think of this is star wars because darth

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vader tapped into the religion of the force that eventually

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looped it Which was addicted is this old world thing

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has been around for millennia and you know the force

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versus technology you know dark one How does the modern 00:02:12.4 --> [endTime] age affect the events in dracula

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