chapter 8

Lucy is a vampire! Well to be honest im not exactly sure if being bitten by a vampire makes your a vampire in this novel but if it does then the little sweet country girl is in for a very rough and sadistic time. throughout this chapter Lucy gets worse and therefore scares the reader because they can relate back to her reflecting one of the three scary woman that came onto John.
my favourite part of this chapter was the scene with the bat (probably Dracula) between the moonlight and mina because it has so much gothic symbolism to the whole passage. You could see it as the darkness will always block the light at this time with Mina representing humanity and the bat representing darkness with only a mere window blocking a clash between the two. The whole passage is so suspended in meaning i found it quite touching to read cause it, for me, captured the whole essence of gothic writing in just a short passage. Lucy is obviously getting in a worse condition imagining Dracula's red eyes and also her restless walks makes for a very good reading as the reader doesn's know what she will do next.
Next part of the novel with the letters between two people giving and sending things i didn't understand nor did it wet my appetite enough to want to understand it therefore i read on to Mina's story.
JOHN IS BACK? how in God's name did he make it back to a hospital? is that Dracula playing naughty tricks again? and is John still in his right mind? Just when i though oh God here is another novel which has a bit of action then a whole lot of meaning behind it Bram Stoker comes and kicks that theory in the teeth with a whole new crop of action and questions for the reader. Knowing that John is alive made me read furiously more than i normally would so i could find out more.
Reinfield is more important than i thought. At first i thought that he was just a little treat to get me ready for a full blown nutter coming to england but turns out he either is or wants to be Dracula's runner boy. This is quite interesting because having thought about it Reinfield likes eating things but suggests that the life is going into him much like a vampire so maybe he is a vampire anyway like Dracula and therefore wants some sort of allegience with him. Perhaps i'm thinking too much into this but it could be a posibility.
overall very good chapter, great lexical meaning and symbolism along with vital information about how the novel could go on.