My First Gothic Book

When I was younger I saw someone reading a book called 'Dracula', this book really interested me because it was beautifully illustrated but had a very scary, dark and violent look. It was also a book that I would have previously never considered reading, and the book had a 3d effect with made it more interesting to me. When I bought the book at the time I did not realise that it was gothic. Since studying the gothic in this unit it was interesting for me to go back and look at it and in some ways see it in a new light. I think that actually now the book has a more scary feel to it. Some of the scenes  and illustrations in the book are far more creepy than I ever previously took them for. Studying the gothic has been really interesting to me as it has enlightened me in a subject that I previously had little knowledge of. The complexities involved in this era, such as looking back because of a fear of the future, and the fascination with death have made me far more aware of  the society that we are currently living in and has also shown me that we may not have yet left the gothic behind. This new insight has made me more inspired and more interested in the contemporary nature of this unit.