chapter 2

From the start i felt the meeting of Jonathan and Dracula was a bit of an anti-climax which may have been on purpose by Stoker. he spent a whole first chapter in detail talking of the views and linking in Gothic styles of writing to inject shallow fear into the reader of what is about to come and then when the meeting did come i found myself reading it twice to look for some sort of depth or double meaning to it but as yet there was none. he is referred to as "an old man" completely taking away his intimidating reputation the reader has made in his head and replacing it with an image of my grandad handing me a worthers original. there is no explanation to his face at the first meeting and regarding speech Jonathan gets a hearty welcome from Dracula. this perhaps makes the reader relax a little which makes me feel even more that this was on purpose of stoker because obviously it is meant to be a dark novel. i feel at this stage there is much more to Dracula and that he will rebuild his reputation quickly into something that is worse than it was originally
the full description of Dracula is very impressive i personally like the line "his face was a strong-a very strong-aquiline." this makes the features scary but Dracula's overall speaking and ways seem to be that of a gentleman which makes me as the reader trust him which again i feel was done on purpose.
i have read on and see that Dracula is not as nice as i had hoped. quite frankly he likes blood so much so he can't control himself when Jonathan cut his chin through shaving. it was a exciting passage because so far it had been all pleasant and polite then suddenly this side of Dracula just jumps out on Jonathan and the reader making me feel stupid for trusting him in the first place. luckily the woman gave Jonathan the cross otherwise things would have been worse.
the chapter ends with examining the beauty of the place around him. i feel that this is an unnecessary place to be explaining beauty when Dracula has just tried to bite John's neck off but once again i feel this is done on purpose.
so far my problems with the novel are that the description seems too precise not leaving much to the imagination and the actual action in the novel seems too far and few in between. Saying this i feel the description is very good and intrigues me and when the action does happen it makes me more excited than if it were happening constantly.