Gender Stereotypes In Dracula

One of the troubling facts of classical vampire mythology was that the vampire figure was intimately described as an evil symbol, which addressed the stereotypical gender ideals that females were almost always the victim; the classical figures of the vampire, thus, frequently employed to warn females in ancient society. Beliefs in the vampire dated back to the Roumanian periodical of peasant literature in the nineteenth century, with heavy concerning about the relation between body and soul after death. In Ancient Romanian, people believed that if a body was not decomposed after death and sometimes even several years, it was supposed that the corpse was a vampire. The vampires, in essence, a group of reanimated corpses came to harm the living from their graves and wandered at crossroads in the world. They always made unwanted visits to loved people at night, engendering deaths and fears. Vampires threatened and controlled people, especially pure women; then they sucking the blood of their victims like leeches; in doing so, the vampires got an opportunity to survive as undead beings. The classical figure of vampire was, therefore, “departed spirits wished evil to those left” [1], which brought Romanians to naturally link the word “vampire” to demons …show more content…
In the film version of Meyer’s Twilight, Robert Pattinson is selected to portray Edward, a dominant vampire, who suckes the blood of young women and turns them into vampires. More importantly though, Edward is well-dressed in the film, having piercing eyes and alluring voice; his attractive appearance is designed to attract female victims and to biological reasons why women easily get hunted by him.