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Dracula Part 1: Course Introduction
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Dracula Part 9: The Modern Age 5740 Views


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Jonathan Harker’s trip from London to Transylvania probably would’ve been much better had his wifi connection been working. What’s a guy to do without the comforts of Candy Crush Saga? ...Wait, was that not in the book? Huh. Better check out this video to find out more about the Modern Age.


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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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