Dracula critics Flashcards
- Burton Halton
- the other
“Dracula is physically …
Dracula is physically “other”: the dark, unconscious, the sexuality that Victorian England denied.
- John Allen Stevenson
- sexuality
“the actions of a vampire can be
the actions of a vampire can be simplified down to a lack of control and perversion of human desires and instinct
- George Wesson
- setting
- the other
“count dracula represents those forces in eastern
Count Dracula represents those forces in Eastern Europe which seek to overthrow, through violence and subversion, the more progressive democratic civilisation of the West
- Kathryn Boyd
- sex and society
“minas sexual beahvoiur fits
Mina’s sexual behaviour fits in with traditional societal norms.
- Lucas Kunnecke
- sex and gender
“masculinity functioned as a
masculinity functioned as a driving social force to subdue threatening female sexuality.
- Sibylle Baumbach
- outsider and society
“the outside has become an
The outsider has become an insider, able to pose as a member of British society.
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Imprisonment - Norma Rowen
“to live immortality ..
To live in immortality in circumstances such as Dracula’s seems like imprisonment .
Imprisonment - Norma Rowen
- punter and Byron
- taboo
“Dracula is above all concerned ..
“Dracula is above all concerned with the breaking of Taboos”
- botting
- boundaries
“Dracula crossing of
“Dracula’s crossing of boundaries is relentless”
- buzwell
- modern women
- Lucy
“Lucy western who is by
“Lucy Westenra, who is, by contrast, dangerously modern in her ways
- bram stoker
- drawls invasion of empire
“the count is simultnasouly
The count is simultaneously a historical and a modern threat
Hindel
- sex
“sex was the monster
sex was the monster that troubled Stoker most
