The CPB entries that I looked at for this week were all very diverse in the areas of interest. This made it super interesting to see if or where I could connect all three of them with any common theme. For my common place book I chose to focus on gothic motifs and specifically how in gothic literature characters usually find themselves in a strange place. In the novel Dracula this is true for Johnathan Harker finding himself in Transylvania. In some senses this could also be said of London being that strange place as well with all of the dark allies, creepy mansions, asylums, and everything else that we have read about. Whether or not this was true for Victorian London or not, it is protrayed as such in all of the novels that happen to include it as a setting. One of the CPB entries that I read discussed how there was a lot missing to the original novel, 101 pg’s and that Stoker himself believes in the events he included as real. Did it seem to him that using the setting of London and Transylvania that the mystery of those places could serve to support the story he tells and create some truth to it? Another of my peers CPB entry included a manuscript of an original adaptation of the novel into a play. I thought this was interesting because the use of the gothic motifs make the story so long lasting and one that seems to be testing time. Although I feel as though some of the horror aspects seem to be lost in some forms of the story due to them focusing on the sexual and desire elements. But for the most part the mystery and appeal to someone in a new strange place seems to continue to captivate peoples imaginations. The third peer CPB that I looked out seemed to be very different in that Stoker wrote the story not to appeal to the mystery of new places but to show some political elements and how the British may have viewed Transylvania as a place that was a threat. This I connected to the various anxieties that Victorian England experienced and displayed. The inclusion of a mysterious figure to their society, meant an upheaval of their perfect world. Although as I mentioned may not have been as perfect as they always believed.