Theme : Women Flashcards

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1
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3 ways women are presented

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Women as victims of male dominance
= Mina and TBC protagonist

Women as agents of sexual power
= bride sisters and LOTHOL

Women as victims turned predators
= Lucy and TTB

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2
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“You are too precious to us…”

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“to have such risk”

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“Though it was a bitter pill for me to swallow…”

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“…I could say nothing”

Mina

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“Forcing her face…”

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“…down his bosom”

Dracula to Mina

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“Her white nightdress…”

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“…smeared with blood”

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“Scream so wild, so…”

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“…ear-piercing, so despairing”

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“Helpless…”

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“…attitude”

Mina

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“Her eyes were mad…”

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“…with terror”

Mina

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9
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“And so my purchaser…”

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“…unwrapped his bargain”

TBC

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10
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“He was much…”

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“…older than I”

TBC

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“I had, in some way…”

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“…ceased to be her child in becoming his wife”

TBC

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12
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What did the Marquis do to her

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“He stripped me”

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“A choker of…”

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“…rubies…like an extraordinarily split throat”

TBC

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14
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“A dozen husbands…”

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“…impaled a dozen brides”

TBC

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15
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“I clung to him as though…”

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“…only the one who had inflicted the pain could comfort me for suffering it”

TBC

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16
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“A deliberate voluptuousness…”

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“…that was both thrilling and repulsive”

Bride sisters

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17
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“Brilliant white teeth that shone like…”

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“…pearls against the ruby of their voluptuous lips”

Bride sisters

18
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“The girl went on her knees, and…”

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“…bent over me, simply gloating”

Bride sisters

19
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“Licked her lips…”

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“…like an animal”

Bride sisters

20
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“Silvery…”

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“…musical laughter”

Bride sisters

21
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“There are kisses…”

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“…for us all”

Bride sisters

22
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“Her beauty is a symptom…”

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“…of her disorder”

LOTHOL

23
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“She is so beautiful…”

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“…she is unnatural”

LOTHOL

24
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“Her beauty is an…”

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“…abnormality”

LOTHOL

25
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“She will invite you with…”

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“…smiles and gestures”

LOTHOL

26
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“But now she is a woman…”

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“…she must have men”

LOTHOL

27
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“She takes them by the hand…”

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“…and leads them to her bedroom”

LOTHOL

28
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“The sweetness was turned to adamantine…”

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“…heartless cruelty, and the purity to voluptuous wantonness”

Lucy

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“Arthur! Oh, my love, I am so glad…”

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“…you have come! Kiss me!”

Lucy

30
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“Lucy’s eyes unclean…”

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“…and full of hell-fire, instead of the pure, gentle orbs we knew”

Lucy

31
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“My father lost me…”

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“…to The Beast at cards”

TTB

32
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“I had been bought and sold…”

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“…passed from hand to hand”

TTB

33
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“I felt I was at liberty…”

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“…for the first time in my life”

TTB

34
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“Each stroke of his tongue…”

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“…ripped off skin after successive skin”

TTB

35
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“The lamb must learn…”

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“…to run with the tigers”

TTB

36
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“I shrugged…”

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“…the drops off my beautiful fur”

TTB

37
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Clamp on Mina

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Mina appears to adhere to the victim-like stereotype as she is portrayed as sexless, nurturing and motherly

38
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Hanson on vampires and sexuality

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The vampire is also used to create a horrific image of deviant sexuality

39
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Simpson on lucy

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Lucy is a pure victim, an innocent beauty subverted by Dracula

40
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Simpson on passivity in TBC

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Passivity is not an intrinsically virtuous state…especially not in women

41
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Makinen on carter’s women (LOTHOL)

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Women who grab their own sexuality and fight back

42
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Webb on TTB

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The narrator demonstrates a gradual abandonment of conventional rationality