Similar to defiance of Social norms, Stoker uses Vampirism to expand on the traits of sexual needs within the New Woman. When Lucy is bitten by Dracula, she slowly begins to lose the identity of a Victorian Era Woman as her lustful desires slowly increase. Through her desperate need for blood from different contributors besides Arthur, the transfusion shows the secretive intimate connection she has with each of the suitors. By the time she is near death, Lucy had received blood from all the contributors including the suitors that were madly in love with her. The transfusion represents the affair that Lucy possibly shares with each of the male protagonists, which causes Van Helsing to tell Seward to remain silent about the transfusion from the
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When Lucy dies and becomes a vampire, her innocence completely fades away and she begins to grasp towards the path of the New Woman, “The sweetness turned to adamantine, heartless cruelty, and the purity to voluptuous wantonness” (Stoker 226). This shows that Lucy who was once polite and kind has turned into a oversexual and abusive being from Dracula’s advances. She then eventually becomes known as the bloofer lady who preys on innocent children. Lucy’s desire for kidnapping and harming children relates to the New Woman, since she is endangering children and refusing to take part in her supposed motherly role. We can start to see Lucy’s distaste for male authority and presence when she encounters the group of men in the tomb, “When Lucy- I call the thing that was before us Lucy because it bore her shape-saw us she drew back with an angry snarl, such as a cat gives when taken unawares; then her eyes ranged over us” (Stoker 226). It shows how Lucy who once enjoyed the company of men that were once attracted to her, now despises their advances and …show more content…
Come, my husband come!” (Stoker 227). Lucy who once loved Arthur as her fiance is now attempting to strip the virility out of him. Through Lucy being unable to forgo her lustful aspiration, we can see how much she has been negatively affected from the ideals of the New Woman and has forgotten everything about what makes a true Victorian Era Woman. The Brides of Dracula similar to Lucy are a sexual object for Dracula, as they are nothing more than being described as being twisted and over sexual, “All three had brilliant white teeth that shone like pearls against the ruby of their voluptuous lips. There was something about them that made me uneasy, some longing and at the same time some deadly fears” (Stoker 40). This description of the vampire women creates a sense of the kind of women who were looked down upon during the Victorian Era, as they looked beautiful but over sexual. The Brides of Dracula are seemingly able to overpower Jonathan and even making Jonathan give in to their sexual and evil wants, “There was something about them that made me uneasy, some longing and at the same time deadly. I felt in my heart, a wicked burning desire that they would kiss me with those red lips” (Stoker
When Lucy dies and becomes a vampire, her innocence completely fades away and she begins to grasp towards the path of the New Woman, “The sweetness turned to adamantine, heartless cruelty, and the purity to voluptuous wantonness” (Stoker 226). This shows that Lucy who was once polite and kind has turned into a oversexual and abusive being from Dracula’s advances. She then eventually becomes known as the bloofer lady who preys on innocent children. Lucy’s desire for kidnapping and harming children relates to the New Woman, since she is endangering children and refusing to take part in her supposed motherly role. We can start to see Lucy’s distaste for male authority and presence when she encounters the group of men in the tomb, “When Lucy- I call the thing that was before us Lucy because it bore her shape-saw us she drew back with an angry snarl, such as a cat gives when taken unawares; then her eyes ranged over us” (Stoker 226). It shows how Lucy who once enjoyed the company of men that were once attracted to her, now despises their advances and …show more content…
Come, my husband come!” (Stoker 227). Lucy who once loved Arthur as her fiance is now attempting to strip the virility out of him. Through Lucy being unable to forgo her lustful aspiration, we can see how much she has been negatively affected from the ideals of the New Woman and has forgotten everything about what makes a true Victorian Era Woman. The Brides of Dracula similar to Lucy are a sexual object for Dracula, as they are nothing more than being described as being twisted and over sexual, “All three had brilliant white teeth that shone like pearls against the ruby of their voluptuous lips. There was something about them that made me uneasy, some longing and at the same time some deadly fears” (Stoker 40). This description of the vampire women creates a sense of the kind of women who were looked down upon during the Victorian Era, as they looked beautiful but over sexual. The Brides of Dracula are seemingly able to overpower Jonathan and even making Jonathan give in to their sexual and evil wants, “There was something about them that made me uneasy, some longing and at the same time deadly. I felt in my heart, a wicked burning desire that they would kiss me with those red lips” (Stoker