Wednesday 14 October 2009

Driving him up the walls...

Harker has discovered that he's been locked in Castle Dracula, this has made him slightly panicky and almost psychopathic. Harker noticed that Dracula was never around during the day, so he went on a manic search on a way to escape from the castle, which would give him a higher risk of living, seeing as he knows he's going to die if he doesn't leave.

After Harker looked out of the south window one night, he noticed that Dracula was mimicing Harker as he was wearing his clothes, climbing down the side of the castle and going to lead Harkers life for him. This gave Harker the inspiration to risk his life and attempt at climbing the castle himself, and he successfully managed to. This gave Harker the ability to get into Dracula's room now as the door is permenantly locked, as well as getting back to his own rooms' window.

Harker noticed that Dracula wasn't very materialistic and didn't have many items in his room, also, he noticed that in the dark corner of the room was some sort of tomb or coffin like bed, in which Dracula slept in.

I think this chapter is very good as it's really gripping me and i just want to read on. I'm quite suprised too :) I think Stoker has described Dracula's room well and got the effect that it was very cold in a metaphorical sense.