Dracula

Dracula

1. Threat of the others

   • Letters

2. Female Sexuality

3. Victorian society

4. Van Helsing - The Hope of Christian Salvation

   • Letters

5. Mina

   • Repression of sexuality
   • Letters
   • Journey Entries

6. Lucy

   • Threat of female sexuality

7. Patriarchal Society

   • Arthur/Lord Godalming
   • Jonathan
   • Quincey Morris
   • John Seward

8. can be seen as a metaphor

9. socially constructed fiction

   • Stoker uses language that describes women as a weak, little impression
   • The social 'rule's
   • Stoker - Dr Seward - uses diminuitive language to describe Lucy who is dead "unclean eyes"

10. Technology

    • Phonograph
    • Transfusion of blood

11. Free to act as you wish

12. Modernity

13. Women's role

    • Mina even mentions
      • "I suppose there is something in woman's nature that makes a man free to break down before her..."