Ada commented on Dracula by Bram Stoker
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This is my first time reading Dracula, and one thing that I'm finding fascinating is just how much this book has shaped the way we perceive vampires in fiction. Wall crawling, prodigious strength, lack of reflection,pointed canine teeth. These traits are used as foreshadowing in the novel, presumably because these things were not appealing to a widely known archetype. To a modern reader though, they're not so much tools to foreshadow, as a brick through the window in terms of subtlety, and it's this book and those moments that have had such success as to turn them in to tropes. I wonder what it would have been like to read the novel naively, unaware of what's coming?
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