Tuesday 29 September 2009

Jonathan is imprisoned!

The main story begins to take place when Jonathan tries to explore a very small area of the magnificient castle and realizes that he had been imprisoned and to escape from there was almost impossible.
As Jonathan realizes himself dwelling in the lifeless castle on the very edge of a terrible precipice, he hopelessly desires for a way out.
His convictions of his helplessness overpowers all other things and feels as if he had behaved like a rat does in a trap, for he had been rushing up and down, peering out of every window with hope.
He begins to understand about what had been going on and at the same time acknowledges that it was the Count himself who had been disguising himself as a driver and had driven him to the very place.
Jonathan fears about his own knowledges because that makes him clearly visualize the cold truth and tie his imaginations in desperate straits.
His confusions regarding the early acts by the people he met on his way to the Count, now becomes clear and thanks for all those people who gave him good wishes and the old woman who had hung a crucifix round his neck as for protection from the evil.
However, despites his fear it seems that he has no other way then listening and following to Count's words as to interference wid his gained knowledges and facts would cost him his life.
Hence, he presents his best attitude for the Count in order to avoid any suspicions or such.
Jonathan, in order to ease himself and know more about, asks about Transylvanian history to which the Count approaches very impressingly.
He, whilst talking about his house, used "we" and spoke almost in the plural like a king talking.
The way he described about the people, the battles almost made us feel that he had been present in each one of them. The count also proudly announces about his races and why they had the rights to do so.
JOnathan gets fascinated by his tone of speech, his dialect and wishes if h cud write them all up for smething better.
They accordingly have several chats regarding the similar suject matter as well as about life in England and the business for which Jonathan had been sent.
JOnathan is warned by Count not to try and explore any of the places, except the ones permitted so as to avoid trouble that he may shower upon himself.
To this he makes a haste to his chamber, however after a while, as the silence seals the fear of the Count, he pops out of his room and makes his way up to the stony stairs.
He somewhere feels a very tiny presence of freedom that although may not truly be one yet succeeds in enchanting his imprisioned soul.
The description of the yellowish colour of the moon affecting the entire situation is very prcisely ad beautifully described.
Jonathan gets overwhelmed as he sees the Count crawling like a lizard with his cloak spread arond him like giant wings and soon disappears from his sight.
Jonathan then proceeds on with his explorations and finds a door at the top of a stairway which he opens to get sight of a beautiful chamber with massive windows from where exterior beauties could be visualized unlike from the other rooms where he had already been in.
He describes about how cosy the room was and how beautiful it looked by the light of the yellowish moon flooding through the diamond panes that enabled the presence of colours wid variations.
Just as he had begun to play his thoughts in the major key, the surprising presence of three young women changed the entire situation.
Two of them were dark and had high aquiline noses, like the Count, and great dark piercing eyes whereas the other one was fair, as fair as can be, with great, wavy masses of golden hair and eyes like pale sapphires.
All three had brilliant white teeth, that shone like pearls against the ruby of their voluptous lips.
Mina is talked about again at this point by Jonathan, when he thinks about how the wicked, burning desire to kiss those red lips of them had arose within him. he explains that it wouldn't be of a very good idea to write about this very moment because that would hurt Mina.
Hence, stating Mina as his wife or a girl friend.
As the fairest lady amongst the three approaches to feed on his blood, Count arrives just in time to save him and take the lead.
He then hands over a bag to the ladies in which there should be a human, as suspected by Jonathan.
He, by now clearly understands that he has no hope at all for tomorrow, and that he was going to be the prey himself.
The horror overceases him and he sinks down unconscious.

1 comment:

  1. Well summarised - and very thorough too! Some good deductions re Mina too. It is obvious that the descriptions of the beauty of the room have caught your eye. What is it, specifically, that makes the descriptions powerful, do you think? Why do you think Stoker includes these passages?

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