Form of Dracula, why is it written in letters and journals?

Annoyingly Dracula is written in letters and journals. I personally hate this form as it makes the book hard and stilted to read and stops you getting into the book. However Stoker may have chosen to write Dracula like this for versimilitude. By writing Dracula in this form  it helps to suspend the reader's disbelief and stops the questioning the whole book and say it hasn't really happened. I suppose you could argue that this makes the "horrors" (questionably) even more terrfying as it is putting on the appearence that it could all be real.

As well as this by using letters and journals it is an invasion of privacy. We as a reader intrude on the characters personal thought and feelings which other are not supposed to read, 'it is not intended for them' This personal invasion may help us to suspend our disbelief because as they are only writing to themselves or their close friends, they have no reason to exaggerate the horrors which have happened to them. If anything they would try to downplay it or reason with themselves and their friends with what they saw to try and prove that it was real and they havn't gone insane. 

Don't really know what to say apart from that so toodles :) xx

Dracula Chapter 3, Freud

Why are we doing this? We all agree that Freud's interpretation that everything we dream is about sex and sexual organs is a pile of jelly tots. Are you really telling me that when I was like 3 and dreamed of pretty, colourful balloons I was in fact dreaming of a mans sexual organ. I think Freud was one, completely disturbed and two, must have been a sex addict as he seems completely obsessed by the idea of sex. I do not and will never believe that humans are as clear cut as that. 


I suppose then I should start the task at hand and so will identify some of the points in chapter 3 that this theory could relate to.

• The castle Harker's trapped in, the many passages and doors within the castle
• Count mentions battles which would have involved weapons e.g. knifes, daggers etc...
• Library they sit in, books
• Letters he writes 
• Hills and the landscape
• Count crawling down the castle wall
• Count described as a lizard 
• Obviously whole scene with the three vampire girls 

There you go I feel that's enough examples.

Faustus Gothic or Tragic Character

Personally I think that Faustus is more of a tragic character this is because:

• His arrogance can be seen as his hubris (tragic flaw which leads to his downfall)
• He has a high status which is shown through him speaking latin
• He is intelligent, he knows what the consequences of his actions will be
• At the beginning of the play he starts in top with high ambitions and desires, however throughout the play he falls until he just becomes a servant of other people's desires and wishes

However it can also be argued that he is a gothic character:

• He sells his soul to the devil
• He's destined for damnation
• He isolates himself voluntary from the world
• Obsessive in his quest for power

Goodbye for now :)