Is Dracula…Jesus?
Rise from the dead
Eats flesh, drinks blood
The cross kills them
They are immortal
Both are Princes
They both inspired followers
Did Jesus eat flesh or drank blood?
In “Church” they teach that you are partaking in a part of Jesus but eating the flesh and drinking his blood.
But part of the Vampire story is to drink blood for eternal life so if Christians are drinking the Blood of Christ to attain eternal life, well, then, couldn't you say that they are vampires??? It's all symbolic of course but it's quite compelling when you think about it. What came first the chicken or the egg?
Is Dracula…Jesus?
Posted on February 27, 2013 by davidsmith4
I’d like to begin by citing the section of Arata’s piece in which he discusses Victorians’ fascination with the occult and “elemental energies…seen as dissipated by modern life, [making] them dangerous but deeply attractive” (624). He is drawing from Patrick Brantlinger here, in a combination of borrowing and extending, since he drops it in as support for his own argument about the Gothicism that informs Dracula and tapped deep-seated concerns in late 19th-century England. He extends it to symbolize the reverse colonization topic on which his article focuses, so he does use it as a load-bearing wall, not just a building block. Arata’s contention is that Vics were intrigued by the paranormal, the supernatural, as a response to the increasingly rationalistic, Enlightened era that prized science over faith more and more. I propose that Dracula could be read as symbolizing Jesus and the mysticism of Christianity.
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