Sexuality In Dracula

When filming and writing literature began to be popular there has always been an issue with women sexuality. Throughout the years, it has been proven women use their sexuality as a manipulated power to control men and women. In the sense of an alien and monster elements the sexuality encounter of uncontrollable creatures that show an inspiration of its own kind. In Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula, women sexuality reflects a behavior in Victorian England. Women are betrayed which led them to a deep-seated fear that goes beyond their sexual boundaries. Dracula is a sexism novel that implies violence against women, manipulation behavior towards men and distinct layers of sexuality. The female characters in Dracula are all portrayed to be in different …show more content…
The Victorian Era, belief that these three women depict toward woman impurity of vastly negative, immoral and sinful idea towards woman nature. Stoker linked the sisters as sexual females with vampirism in the junction of evil. Apart from 'new woman' in the Victorian Era, sexual and unchaste woman in society are considered sinful and evil. Woman who were a representation of sexual and unchaste, woman were looked down upon because of the power that these woman hold over men. In the example of manipulation behavior towards men is in chapter three when Jonathan is locked in the Count's castle and the curious sisters go up to see Jonathan, "There was something about them that made me uneasy, some longing and at the same time some deadly fear. I felt in my heart a wicked, burning desire that they would kiss me with those red lips. It is not good to note this down, lest some day it should meet Mina’s eyes and cause her pain; but it is the truth. They whispered together, and then they all three laughed— such a silvery, musical laugh, but as hard as though the sound never could have come through the softness of human lips" (Stoker 35). This passage proofs the power that these types of women in society had in control over men. Not only did they want his blood but the sexuality encounter of what the sisters wanted was clear in the terms of …show more content…
Analyzing the violence against women are not what we are use today in our reading or seeing in today's literature. In Dracula, the violence that Stokes highlights is the sexism towards how women are being in controlled as he focuses towards Mina. The sisters who are the daughters of Dracula are also an example of women sexism; it is being used as evil manipulation and desirable temptation towards men. The distinct layers of sexuality are also to be proven that women are being used in many different levels which start off with Mina, then with the sisters and later with Lucy. Lucy however, is the main focus of how desperately Dracula wanted her to be the ideal woman of the 'undead' vampirism, as many men in the novel wanted her as their women. It proves fear towards men and women in terms of women sexuality. Women are expressed as helpless and a part of society change that will introduce to the alien perspective of women