the second chapter starts with a new and more "happy" feeling than what we left off in the end of the previous chapter . Jonathan talks about how beautiful the Dracula`s castle is with the heavy stone works worned by wheather and time.
in the second paragraph he has lots of questions surrounding him about him being there and if it really was happening with him. he also thinks about how he wants all of these to be a horrible nightmare and he were to be awake in his bed. this paragraph also tells us more about the actual reason why Jonathan was here. he expalins that by saying that he is a solicitor that was sent out to explain the purchase of a london estate to the foreigner.
the story moves on by introducing us to Count Dracula. his appereance is quite contradicting to what the readers might assume him to be because of what we have learnt in the previous chapter. from the previous chapter we have build up an image of Count Dracula to be an evil man and suspicious looking like his butler. but instead, he looked rather old, clean shaven with a white moustache like a stereotypical posh man. this may have been done so that the readers or Jonathan might not suspect him.
Count Dracula behaves like a good host and servers him well like any gentleman would to his guest. during the supper, Jonathan gives us a close and detailed view of Count Dracula. he mentions the fact that his mouth is evil looking and his nails were cut in pointing shape. slowly fears build up inside of Jonathan that he doesnt want to confess even to himself.
Jonathan and Count Dracula has a rather normal and formal conversation and from this conversation we found out that Count Dracula is fond of London. but, i think that he chose to talk about London because Jonathan was from london and he knew about it very well. so by talking about what he knew he would be more comfortable with Dracula. he also forbids Jonathan from going to the locked room which i think is pointless because then he would be more interested in going there. then it could also have been that he would have wanted Jonathan to see something that he shouldnt have.
at the end of the chapter, he begins to feel more insecure than he previously was and thinks that he is the only living soul in that place. next morning what awaited him was a sheer horror that he wouldnt have ever imagined. the evil truth that he discovered and to find himself trapped in that. he discovered that Count Dracula was a vampire and that he had no reflection. and in top of that he also dicovered that the Count`s beautiful castle kept him hostage-the one from which he couldnt escape, never!!!
side note...............break the wall..............canon ball and then lets escape..............XD
Tuesday
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Again, well summarised! Point well raised - that if Dracula hadn't mentioned not to go into locked doors, then JH probably would not have wanted to explore ... then again, this is probably a device to speed up the narrative - or we would be there for a long time before anything really happened.
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