Lucy I can at least buy into on a thematic level; Jack was beyond cardboard
True. But he was very PRETTY cardboard. 8D
The castle, an endless labyrinth that serves as Harker's prison, and yet is it not Dracula who is ultimately seeking to escape it as a metaphor for his endless, blank life? He does not realize there is a map because he doesn't understand his own symbolic condition but he knows he needs Johnny to get out (bride #1). Harker, in contrast, intuits the existence of the map (that leads to the sunlight) because he has Mina. Compare to Dracula's flat in England where we have on a very straightforward axis, the doorway (invitation) with a piece of art in the shape of a crucified man above it across from the window (sunlight) and connecting them the long table (food, but also communion, coming together) which also serves as a mirror on top of which Dracula and Zagatha die.
Mina as Harker's sunlight, the thing he keeps chasing until he can see her one last time (I think the leap to his death was probably his last fully free act)?
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True. But he was very PRETTY cardboard. 8D
The castle, an endless labyrinth that serves as Harker's prison, and yet is it not Dracula who is ultimately seeking to escape it as a metaphor for his endless, blank life? He does not realize there is a map because he doesn't understand his own symbolic condition but he knows he needs Johnny to get out (bride #1). Harker, in contrast, intuits the existence of the map (that leads to the sunlight) because he has Mina. Compare to Dracula's flat in England where we have on a very straightforward axis, the doorway (invitation) with a piece of art in the shape of a crucified man above it across from the window (sunlight) and connecting them the long table (food, but also communion, coming together) which also serves as a mirror on top of which Dracula and Zagatha die.
Mina as Harker's sunlight, the thing he keeps chasing until he can see her one last time (I think the leap to his death was probably his last fully free act)?