Dracula’s guest/the judge’s house “I want you to believe...to believe in things that you cannot” (Stoker, Dracula). The story Dracula’s guest is believed to be the first chapter of the famously known novel Dracula. Dracula’s Guest is about an English man on his way to see Dracula but on his journey he is warned about a forbidden village where the dead don’t stay dead. The English men's curiosity is peeked and decides to go to the village where he quickly notices he is in great danger but fortunately is saved by a great wolf. Stoker’s next short story is the judge’s house, in this story there’s a young man that goes by the name of Malcolm Malcomson, this man decides to take his studying to a house where once lived a judge. Malcolmson not wanting to listen to the warnings of his neighbors shortly realizes that there is something seriously wrong with the house which leads him to his untimely death. Bram Stoker’s …show more content…
The first element of gothic horrors that is deeply reinforced in the short story is repetition. Repetition is considered when there are recurrences or signs/actions that happen more than once. This is demonstrated when the English man is at the grave yard while there is a fighting storm and goes to a tomb for shelter but once near the tomb he sees a “beautiful women, with rounded checks and red lips seemingly sleeping on a bier” (Stoker Dracula’s 5) . It’s here when the lighting strikes for the first time where the lovely women lied with a stake through her heart. As the lighting strike he was pulled back by a great known force, as he tried to recover and unable to making sense of what just happened “came another blinding flash, which seemed to strike the iron stake” (Stoker Dracula’s 5). This is known as repetition because the lighting stroke twice and this is very common element in gothic horror