after finding out the bitter truth that he was imprisoned, jonathan decides to remain quite and pretend that nothing ever happened. this may have been the only thing he could have done to keep himself safe, even if it is for few moments. he even thanks the old lady that gave him a crucific which he earlier didnt care about.
Jonathan tries to involve dracula into a conversation so that he wont suspect him. they talk about the history of translyvania. the interesting fact about this conversation is that when he talks about his house dracula talks in plural even though Jonathan had discovered or rather presumed the fact that dracula was the only one in the house. he tells Jonathan to write a letter to Mr.Hawkins but not write anything outside of the work. he also tells or more like command Jonathan to stay behind with authority and royalty reflecting in his cold eyes. Jonathan agrees thinking that he is no more than a mere servant of his duty and a prisoner.
dracula warns jonathan to not sleep in any part of the castle except for his room which i again think is pointless because he is a "guest" in dracula`s castle and he wouldnt roam around and sleep anywhere he wants. he doesnt finish his last sentence but rather "completes" it with an action of washing his hands.this could imphathize the fact that he is warning Jonathan and it wouldnt be good if he disobeys it.
then what Jonathan now witnessess was completely out of the world. he saw dracula crawl out of his window with his face downwards like an animal. the way this whole chapter comes together is quite interesting in a way. in this chapter Jonathan witnessess the terrror of the place he is living in, develops a feeling of insecurity and witnesses a real life devil at the end of his wit.
after dracula crawled his way out his palace, Jonathan goes on the search of his impossible freedom. he searches for the way out even though he knew he couldnt and finds a locked door. but, for his much surprise the door was just jammed and not locked. like anyone would, he goes inside of the room to find it deserted but with a comfortable air around it.he remembers a line from shakepeare`s hamlet and implies it with his current situation. then he disobeys dracula`s orders and decides to sleep in there but is qucikly waken up by three beautiful ladies. he noticies the fact that they didnt have shadows.surprisingly enough he begins to harvour a feeling lust for them. i think that Jonathan felt this way because the ladies were vampires and could have been able to cast anyone in their magic. and, when one of the ladies nearly bit Jonathan, he has a narrow escape when dracula interfares and tells them to backoff because Jonathan was his and they could have him after he was finished with him. then he throws something in a bag at them which seems like a struggling child.
after witnessing all that terror Jonathan falls unconcious..................
Some interesting points raised here: what you say about Dracula speaking in the plural - this could be interpreted as using the royal 'we' - that it symbolises his arrogance.
ReplyDeleteAnother good point to mention is what you say about Dracula telling JH not to wander around ... no - he wouldn't have even thought about doing this... UNLESS... he was told not to... and then it's human nature to immediately want to do the thing we are told not to - so it's possible that again, this makes the story move faster.
Take care with capital letters and punctuation please - you are, after all, writing this as an AS student of English!