Dracula and Fear of Female Sexuality

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School essay

Pages :

2 pages

Format :

.doc

Published date :

10/23/2007

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Table of Contents Dracula and Fear of Female Sexuality Table of Contents

 
  1. Introduction
  2. Stoker's female characters
  3. The very notion of Dracula biting Lucy
  4. The rigid homeostasis of Victorian gender roles
  5. Conclusion

Abstract

Bram Stoker's dracula is undoubtedly one the most consciously sentient and hyperbolic literary incarnations of the excessive fear of women's sexuality that still survives with a vast legitimacy for its content today. Much like Mary Shelley's Frankenstein the novel is satiated with the fear of the modern technology and scientific advances of the industrial era to superannuate the need for morality. Unlike Frankenstein, however, what dracula is most suffused with is the fear of the progressiveness of an era to challenge the patriarchal power structure that so defined Victorian society. Every possible corner of the book is exhausted with the phallocentric motifs of successive generations of men believing in their "divine" Christian autonomy over the reproductive rights of women. This fear of women still exists today but takes on new, more dangerous pervasive and politic forms.

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Level :General public Study : Literature School/University : Middlesex Community College

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