#gonna say something that i might be incorrect abt but . its weird to me that ppl describe dracula as like | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

july-19th-club · 2 years

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what about the comment on one of my dracula daily posts today about how mina shouldn't tell jonathan to have pity on dracula because he deserves to be angry at his captor. when the point of the scene is that she wants to know they'll have pity on her when it comes her time to die

#gonna say something that i might be incorrect abt but . its weird to me that ppl describe dracula as like #a chronic abuser because while he is certainly a chronic ASSAULTER. and the mina scene is very much a rape scene #sort of structurally and consequentially even if there's no actual sex #i feel like there's a distinction? i feel like abuse requires a certain level of long-term familiarity and power-holding #and while jonathan WAS in the castle for a while. it was still more of a kidnapping/torture situation which overlaps #but i would describe it differently i guess. his treatment of renfield is more into the traditional idea of abuse #idk its semantic pickiness probably #but i feel like there are better ways to discuss how drac affects the protagonists than sweepingly calling it abuse #dracula daily

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