Carpathians!!! (mountains not vampires :P)

for blog number two I'm going discuss the effect of the sublime and give you a description of what Carpathians are, so people who have the same intellect as me can begin to understand the complex variety of words used in the Gothic novel 'Dracula'.

Firstly i think I'll inform you of why i decided to talk about the Carpathians as my first blog about the content of the book. well, i started to read the book subconsciously, to be honest i couldn't be bothered to read it. Each word i read seemed to leave my brain as quickly as they entered. And when it came to my lovely teacher :) asking me what i understood from the first chapter, i was lost for words. I seemed to think the Carpathians were a species of vampire, rather than there correct meaning of mountains, i don't see how i can confuse the two, but that's just my luck. Below i am going to give a brief description on the 'Carpathians' and the 'Sublime'.

(quoted from wikipedia)

'The Carpathian Mountains or Carpathians are a range of mountains forming an arc of roughly 1,500 km (932 mi) across Central and Eastern Europe, making them the largest mountain range in Europe. They provide the habitat for the largest populations in Europe of brown bears, wolves, chamois and lynxes, with the highest concentration in Romania, as well as over one third of all European plant species' (they mentioned all of this in the first chapter so only a pathetic excuse for a English student, like me, would not understand).

These mountains are mentioned frequently throughout the text in chapter one, the Carpathians are described as enormous, they are something of such greatness, that nothing else can be compared to them, they are of enormous magnitude. 'Edmund Burke' is the first philosopher to state that the sublime and the beautiful were mutually exclusive (meaning that they are the same, but that is very unusual comparing something so large and scary but at the same time it could be beautiful). I think the sublime is going to become a common use in the book, already i have seen uses of eye saws in the book (the mountains, castles which show size yet beauty) but maybe as i progress through the book i am expecting there to be a comparison to Dracula and the sublime, showing that although he is terrifying he still has beauty, well see what happens...

I am looking forward to discussing more words which confuse me throughout blogging :)