love this 🩷🩷 i also feel it’s very interesting how they intertwined themes of forbidden love with the repression of sexuality - ellen is told to keep her dreams to herself and is forcibly restrained at night in a bid to stop her from expressing herself
Yesss it’s v symbolic of the themes that the original Dracula novel was playing with like the response to Victorian sexual repression through this animalistic sexuality, food for thought 🤔
i deffo need to rewatch so i can do some deeper analysis but i did just reread dracula and the use of religion in the book deffo is used to contrast the ‘devilish’ desire like repression vs expression
love this 🩷🩷 i also feel it’s very interesting how they intertwined themes of forbidden love with the repression of sexuality - ellen is told to keep her dreams to herself and is forcibly restrained at night in a bid to stop her from expressing herself
Yesss it’s v symbolic of the themes that the original Dracula novel was playing with like the response to Victorian sexual repression through this animalistic sexuality, food for thought 🤔
i deffo need to rewatch so i can do some deeper analysis but i did just reread dracula and the use of religion in the book deffo is used to contrast the ‘devilish’ desire like repression vs expression