Siddhartha: Section #2

I related the film "Bram Stocker's Dracula" to Chapter 5. The film was based on the novel. These two pieces of literature are different but at the time very similar. The first part of Chapter 4 was the part that was most similar to "Bram Stocker´s Dracula".

I connected to the part when Siddhartha dreams about Govinda turning into a woman. The book states that when Siddhartha started to drink the Govinda's milk, he started to experience the world and see things. "Thereupon he embraced Govinda, put his arm round him, and as he drew him to his breast and kissed him, he was Govinda no longer, but a woman and out of the woman's gown emerged a full breast, and Siddhartha lay there and drank; sweet and strong tasted the milk from his breast. It tasted of woman and man, the sun and forest, of animal and flower, of every fruit, of every pleasure. It was intoxicating" (page 40). In the film, Jonathan finds a trunk that has three female vampires inside and lets them free. These three sexual demons seduce him and start to undress him. In that moment, one of the demons feeds on his blood. That's when Jonathan starts seeing the world beyond the castle. He sees his fiancée Nina back in London alone and depressed.

Even though these two pieces of literature are very different, you can always find some similarities. Siddhartha's experience and Jonathan's experience may differ, but the images created in my head were very similar. In novels like these, dreams and foreshadowing can help us make inferences and create expectations of what the rest of the book/movie will be about.