{"id":19096,"date":"2024-02-26T09:27:11","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T15:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/?p=19096"},"modified":"2024-02-26T09:27:14","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T15:27:14","slug":"my-thoughts-on-frankenstein-by-marry-shelley-and-dracula-by-bram-stoker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/2024\/02\/26\/my-thoughts-on-frankenstein-by-marry-shelley-and-dracula-by-bram-stoker\/","title":{"rendered":"My thoughts on Frankenstein by Marry Shelley and Dracula by Bram Stoker"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Today I am going to talk about two books that I have read recently and recommend to other people who haven\u2019t read them. I know there’s this generalization about classic books being boring but I consider these worth it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Frankenstein<\/b><\/p>\n

I read Frankenstein in under three days, finishing the first four chapters in a singular night. I read this book soon after Dracula by Bram Stoker.<\/span><\/p>\n

I want to begin this blog by saying that I had no idea what I was getting into when I began reading it. I think everyone has the general idea about Frankenstein given how many times its been referenced but if you have any perceptions of this book not having read it, I can assure you they\u2019re probably wrong.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Going into it I thought it was going to be a simple story about a mad scientist creating an abomination and having to deal with society\u2019s reaction to said abomination. But this novel goes much deeper than that, it tells a story of love, loss, and revenge. And not being fulfilled by revenge. It\u2019s heavy on the theme of being othered and not fitting in with society. A big aspect of the novel I didn\u2019t expect was how much Mary Shelley honed in on the perspective of Frankenstein\u2019s monster.I don\u2019t want to get too detailed with this because I want to avoid spoiling it but I promise it’s worth the read.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Dracula<\/b><\/p>\n

This book was much slower of a read for me than Frankenstein, it took me months to finish due to spans of weeks where I wasn\u2019t reading at all. In my personal opinion because of it\u2019s formatting being mostly newspaper articles and journal entries was harder to get into and there were a lot of chapters that felt very still but when the story was moving oh boy was it moving. A lot of the characters introduced felt like they had a very distinctive purpose and when they were in danger I cared a great deal about the outcome.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Also as someone who is very into vampires, seeing the early lore of Dracula was incredibly interesting. How almost canine like he was, with him always having his fangs bared and being hairy. Also his ability to summon wolves.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I do think this book is worth reading though, the way the story builds was very fun and interesting. Once you get used to the format it becomes more fun to read.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I also don\u2019t want to spoil this book for anyone who hasn\u2019t read it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today I am going to talk about two books that I have read recently and recommend to other people who haven\u2019t read them. I know there’s this generalization about classic books being boring but I consider these worth it.\u00a0 Frankenstein I read Frankenstein in under three days, finishing the first four chapters in a singular … Continue reading “My thoughts on Frankenstein by Marry Shelley and Dracula by Bram Stoker”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19096"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19096"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19152,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19096\/revisions\/19152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.msabrookhaven.org\/literary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}