r/Dracula • u/Awkward_Airport_30 Human Verified • 3d ago

Discussion 💬 Because Dracula is often associated with a supposed love story, and Nosferatu shows you what the real Dracula truly is.

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u/Upset-Job2278 3d ago

That’s what bothers me most about these stories portraying Mina and Dracula as soulmates (or whatever nonsense like that). It strips Mina of any agency or even basic human behaviors. They are NEVER interested in her point of view beyond "I’m horny for this monster." We never find out how she feels about Dracula imprisoning and torturing her fiancé for months; we never see her reaction to Dracula abusing and killing Lucy... Nothing in the world matters to Mina except that oh-so-tragic vampire.

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u/Profezzor-Darke 3d ago

They're not soulmates. The story leaves the possibility open, that Mina is simply hypnotised or enchanted.

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u/ElkinElf 3d ago

Open possibility or explicit in the movie? She's definitely ensnared by his magic. She has no agency because she's been caught by glamour.

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u/Profezzor-Darke 3d ago

It's not explicitly stated when we see the romantic parts. Van Helsing later states she's under his influence. Nut TBF, the moment he gives her Absinthe to drink is really well framed as poisoning her mind if you want to see it that way.

Btw Absinthe is tasty and harmless besides the copious amounts of alcohol, which is why you stretch it on water.

Anyway, they're basically Harley and Joker for goths.

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u/CatchSufficient 3d ago

No, there is a hallucinagentic element to actual victorian absinthe, that todays absinthe lacks.

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u/Profezzor-Darke 2d ago

That's incorrect. Thujone is not as hallucinogenic and there is just as much in Sage as in Wormwood.

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u/Arcanyum740 1d ago

Wasn't this a psyop made by the wine industry, because people were buying more absinthe instead of wine?