Commonplace books are a storage of thought and knowledge, reflection and interpretation. When they were first being created, commonplace books were meant as a way to share new knowledge, and interpretations. From a modern lense, commonplace books are an example of past and current viewpoints merging to reflect the reader’s values and character. Tom Standage … [Read more…]
Modern Vampires
LGBTQ in Art in The Picture of Dorian Gray
Self Expression in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Quote: “This vampire which is amongst us is of himself so strong in person as twenty men; he is of cunning more than mortal, for his cunning be the growth of ages; he have still the aids of necromancy, which is, as his etymology imply, the divination by the dead, and all the dead that … [Read more…]
Quote: “Having answered the Count’s salutation, I turned to the glass again to see how I had been mistaken. This time there could be no error, for the man was close to me, and I could see him over my shoulder. But there was no reflection of him in the mirror! The whole room behind … [Read more…]
Desire and Sexuality in Dracula
Quote: “Not only an accent of command, but something malicious, something saturnine, It was a little guttural, though whether it was a man speaking I could not have positively said; but I had no doubt it was a foreigner, (31)” It might have been that he had been afflicted by some terrible disease, and it … [Read more…]
Quote: ““But as you are rich, Jane, you have now, no doubt, friends who will look after you, and not suffer you to devote yourself to a blind lameter like me?” “I told you I am independent, sir, as well as rich: I am my own mistress.” “And you will stay with me.” “Certainly – … [Read more…]
