Dracula Critics Flashcards
1
Q
a woman is
A
better off dead than sexual
craft
2
Q
akin to gang
A
rape, with an “impressive phallic instrument”
Showalter
3
Q
dracula is an exercise
A
in masculine anxiety
waters
4
Q
bestial male
A
energy, here highly sexualised, is displaced onto the vampire
Harse
5
Q
the fragility of
A
human reason in the face of primal fears
Moretti
6
Q
his significance ultimately lies
A
not so much in the way he embodies transgression as in the way he functions as the catalyst for transgression in others
Punter and Byron
7
Q
sex was the
A
monster that troubles Stoker most
Hindel
8
Q
the castle represents a
A
threatening, sexually rapacious masculine world in which women are trapped and persecuted
Bunten
