I figured I'd give you guys a little more to discuss upon, as i stumbled on some pretty good speculations.
"What's That in the Mirror?"
-The word mirror has it's root in the Latin verb mirari, which means to wonder at. And what does wonder mean? Wonder comes from the Anglo-Saxon word which means "... a portent. The original sense is awe, literally, that from which one turns aside."† Awe has it's distant roots in the Greek word achos, or fear. What I'm getting at here is the differing reactions to mirrors. I want to find out possibly why folklore then assigned mirrors as containing our souls, and to possibly why breaking a mirror was considered as bad luck. It becomes clear to me that the mirror was an experience of wonder that could be either thought of as bad or good, depending on what one thinks one sees. If the mirror is broken then one could no longer wonder at it and hence oneself. Its even worse if one breaks it on purpose, because then one is refusing to look at what's there. I can see why the mirror can become frightening, especially if one doesn't approve of what one sees there, which is oneself. The mirror can often expose the real self, as opposed to the delusion of what one thinks one is.
Consider this when you wonder why Dracula did not appear in the mirror, and then why he then broke it. I've come to think that he wasn't soulless, but he was afraid of looking upon what he had become, which metaphorically was nothing. He did not want to reflect on what he had become. He had ceased to wonder at himself, and in that act had ceased to change. Since he had ceased to change he really was dead. He's only still 'alive', or existing because he drinks the blood of others. -
This is the website where I found this information, for those who like to read.
What's That in the Mirror?
