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| Mind Map about some of my thoughts |
Today we continued and were able to finish reading the play with the class. I felt reading trough the play once again made me notice some connections and themes, especially within the characters, much clearer. It was also very nice to get to hear what everyone else were thinking about the play and certainly share some of my own observations as well.
One remark that was given during one of our discussion, was that every character in the play seem to be either a sadist(someone who receives pleasure from conflicting pain on others) or a masochist(someone who enjoys receiving pain/inflicting pain on themselves). This is especially brought out by the nurses Grice and Nisbett, who are each describe as one or the other in the stage directions.
Other characters as well seem to be representing the different themes and concepts within the story, e.g. Dracula represents the temptation of the Devil, Van Helsing priest or power of Christianity, Arthur Seward science and modernity, and Jonathan Harker the Victorian values. Yet, Lochhead has twisted some of these characters to rather show the problems with these themes and symbols in the book, showing that world is not as black&white as it seems.
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