'Analysis of Vampire Scene in Chapter 3 Dracula Essay\r'

'Freud suggests that fear is â€Å" link up in some way to an earlier aflame response that has been repressed.” In chapter 3 drug dealer experiences a great amount of fear when he is attacked by the Brides of Dracula, in a dramatic, highly sexual crack. Hawker’s submission and confusion as to whether he is experiencing pleasure of pain could, to follow Freud’s theory, be linked to a past memory in which he repressed his sexual desires.\r\nIn the wise society in which relief pitcher was writing, the rampant, overt sexiness of the Brides would have been reversaling, and in some ways liberating. Stoker writes: â€Å"There was something most them that made me uneasy, some longing and at the same time some ruinous fear. I felt in my heart a wicked, burning desire that they would kiss me with those red lips.” The Brides argon wholly sexual beings, who are guided totally by their desires, and this need contrasts on the whole against the typical ninet eenth century men and women- John, Lucy and Mina. This liberation from repression would and did terrify and shock society, making vampires seem more like animals, monsters.\r\nFreud wrote active the Superego, self and Id, the three parts of the human psyche. The Id is natural, animalistic desires, such as sex and hunger and it is the Ego’s job to ensure that these desires are controlled, in order for a human to live in an ordered society. This links well with the idea that repression leads to fear.\r\nFreud too wrote about the ‘uncanny’ which in German translates to ‘unheimlich,’ which core un-unembellished. The idea of uncanny is that â€Å"within the concept of the homely is the nonion of concealment itself,” that where we feel safest may not be that safe at all, and that â€Å"home is a place of secrets.” In Chapter three Harker seeks comfort in a room â€Å"where, of old, ladies had sat and sung and lived sweetly lives whilst their gentle breasts were sad for their menfolk away in the midst of remorseless wars.”\r\nHe seeks safety and comfort in familiarity, however within the place where he appears to be safest in the castle the Brides of Dracula descend on him. Stoker writes that: â€Å"The room was the same, unchanged in every way since I came into it,” however the Brides have appeared and abruptly the atmosphere changes from that of safety and sleep to sexually supercharged domination.\r\nAt the climax of the scene, the vampires are just about to bite Hawker’s neck, and Hawker completely and utterly submits: â€Å"I could feel the soft, shivering spectre of the lips on the super sensitive skin of my throat, and the warm dents of two sharp teeth, just touching and pausing there. I closed my eyes in languorous tour and waited, waited with beating heart.” It is this uninhibited pleasure that Hawker experiences that makes the scene so significant, almost as if his uncons cious Id has completely taken over his Superego. The Brides do not bet, they act, they are, tally to Freud, the complete opposite to how normal human beings think they should behave.\r\n'