Once Harker learns everything that he can, Dracula lets him escape back to England so he can tell people about his awful experiences. The diary chronicles everything that Harker learned from his first-hand experience with a powerful vampire. He then keeps Harker imprisoned, confiscating his letters but letting him keep his diary. Read the novel! The above sounds like the reaction Dracula has when Jonathan cuts himself shaving.ĭracula was trying to get himself killed.Dracula hired Harker's firm to arrange the purchase of a bunch of homes in London. At least one live action adaptation has Dracula getting a little too excited about Jonathan cutting his finger.Of course, that could just be overcompensating. Fairly ironic, considering Vlad Tspesh was so anti-homosexual that he had those who were convicted of sodomy impaled anally.Also, culturally, Dracula represents the mistrusted foreigner to Stoker's London but he may also represent the mistrusted homosexual, or at the very least deviant. His defense of Jonathan thus becomes much like a jealous lover. There is evidence that some of the Hungarian mythos that Bram Stoker drew on views a vampire that drinks the blood of someone from the same sex as being effectively homosexual.More likely than him harboring a secret flame for Mina, anyway. And in the aftermath of his captivity, redolent with creepy themes of Stockholm syndrome and the Count's desire to be constantly in lordly control, apparently Jonathan's horror regarding what has transpired is enough to cause a nervous breakdown. Is incredibly irritated when Jonathan gets away, and takes it out on his virginal loved ones. And he does so by sending one of his big ol' wolves to keep him warm.) Declares Jonathan his and his alone when casting away the three Vampire Brides, and gets defensive when one of them knowingly taunts that he himself has never known love. (And if we're assuming the Englishman in Dracula's Guest is Harker too, or simply one of his predecessors, he's concerned enough personally to want to keep him safe, rather than simply sending away for another solicitor. Either overtly pleasurable and carnal or invasive and mind-rapey. Even if it's for the sake of his delicious, delicious blood, keep in mind how modern interpretations of him feeding tend to go. Very intent on keeping Harker in control. The Count is bisexual, or at least rather curious.And just as his oh-so- corrupting manly wiles took in Lucy-he didn't exactly bother with the wiles with Mina-he's got a bit of a man-crush on Jonathan.
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