Dracula is a classic horror novel that sparked a huge interest in a brand-new genre. Currently, the world is used to seeing romantic vampires fighting against werewolves for the love their life. Instead of fearing vampires people love them and have dreams of dating a vampire. However, I believe that vampire genre was always one filled with romance, and even the famous Dracula spoke of intense love. Dracula a book about horror and gruesome death is largely affiliated with many sexual innuendos and sexual references. From blood transfusions to fangs Dracula has all the innuendos you can get.
The book Dracula speaks about romantic topics that at that time were greatly frowned upon and considered controversial. 1790s was a whole new type of world, the world finally understood the human minds and they could differentiate between normalcy and deviance. Women were expected to be “pure”, they shouldn’t have had any sexual intercourse or they were to be married, be a …show more content…
Vampire Lucy was a now a voluptuous girl, in fact the men who were at the churchyard who were there do to Van Helsing’s hunch were all slightly attracted to this new Lucy. However, they were also scared of the animal look in her eyes. When Lucy saw the men, she called out to Arthur, who was supposed to be her future husband, he would have gone to had it not been for Van Helsing who stopped Arthur. This is a hidden way of showing what it meant if you had sexual intercourse prior to marriage. In this case the vampire bite is used as the intercourse, Lucy was portrayed as a clean soul as mentioned before, but as soon as Lucy was bitten she was described as what nowadays we classify as a “wild” women who has a lot of “pleasure” prior to marriage. She becomes a poster girl for a voluptuous, for those of you aren’t familiar with the word is a word to describe a woman who is sexually
The book Dracula speaks about romantic topics that at that time were greatly frowned upon and considered controversial. 1790s was a whole new type of world, the world finally understood the human minds and they could differentiate between normalcy and deviance. Women were expected to be “pure”, they shouldn’t have had any sexual intercourse or they were to be married, be a …show more content…
Vampire Lucy was a now a voluptuous girl, in fact the men who were at the churchyard who were there do to Van Helsing’s hunch were all slightly attracted to this new Lucy. However, they were also scared of the animal look in her eyes. When Lucy saw the men, she called out to Arthur, who was supposed to be her future husband, he would have gone to had it not been for Van Helsing who stopped Arthur. This is a hidden way of showing what it meant if you had sexual intercourse prior to marriage. In this case the vampire bite is used as the intercourse, Lucy was portrayed as a clean soul as mentioned before, but as soon as Lucy was bitten she was described as what nowadays we classify as a “wild” women who has a lot of “pleasure” prior to marriage. She becomes a poster girl for a voluptuous, for those of you aren’t familiar with the word is a word to describe a woman who is sexually