Theme : Women Flashcards
3 ways women are presented
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
“You are too precious to us…”
“to have such risk”
“Though it was a bitter pill for me to swallow…”
“…I could say nothing”
Mina
“Forcing her face…”
“…down his bosom”
Dracula to Mina
“Her white nightdress…”
“…smeared with blood”
“Scream so wild, so…”
“…ear-piercing, so despairing”
“Helpless…”
“…attitude”
Mina
“Her eyes were mad…”
“…with terror”
Mina
“And so my purchaser…”
“…unwrapped his bargain”
TBC
“He was much…”
“…older than I”
TBC
“I had, in some way…”
“…ceased to be her child in becoming his wife”
TBC
What did the Marquis do to her
“He stripped me”
“A choker of…”
“…rubies…like an extraordinarily split throat”
TBC
“A dozen husbands…”
“…impaled a dozen brides”
TBC
“I clung to him as though…”
“…only the one who had inflicted the pain could comfort me for suffering it”
TBC
“A deliberate voluptuousness…”
“…that was both thrilling and repulsive”
Bride sisters
“Brilliant white teeth that shone like…”
“…pearls against the ruby of their voluptuous lips”
Bride sisters
“The girl went on her knees, and…”
“…bent over me, simply gloating”
Bride sisters
“Licked her lips…”
“…like an animal”
Bride sisters
“Silvery…”
“…musical laughter”
Bride sisters
“There are kisses…”
“…for us all”
Bride sisters
“Her beauty is a symptom…”
“…of her disorder”
LOTHOL
“She is so beautiful…”
“…she is unnatural”
LOTHOL
“Her beauty is an…”
“…abnormality”
LOTHOL
“She will invite you with…”
“…smiles and gestures”
LOTHOL
“But now she is a woman…”
“…she must have men”
LOTHOL
“She takes them by the hand…”
“…and leads them to her bedroom”
LOTHOL
“The sweetness was turned to adamantine…”
“…heartless cruelty, and the purity to voluptuous wantonness”
Lucy
“Arthur! Oh, my love, I am so glad…”
“…you have come! Kiss me!”
Lucy
“Lucy’s eyes unclean…”
“…and full of hell-fire, instead of the pure, gentle orbs we knew”
Lucy
“My father lost me…”
“…to The Beast at cards”
TTB
“I had been bought and sold…”
“…passed from hand to hand”
TTB
“I felt I was at liberty…”
“…for the first time in my life”
TTB
“Each stroke of his tongue…”
“…ripped off skin after successive skin”
TTB
“The lamb must learn…”
“…to run with the tigers”
TTB
“I shrugged…”
“…the drops off my beautiful fur”
TTB
Clamp on Mina
Mina appears to adhere to the victim-like stereotype as she is portrayed as sexless, nurturing and motherly
Hanson on vampires and sexuality
The vampire is also used to create a horrific image of deviant sexuality
Simpson on lucy
Lucy is a pure victim, an innocent beauty subverted by Dracula
Simpson on passivity in TBC
Passivity is not an intrinsically virtuous state…especially not in women
Makinen on carter’s women (LOTHOL)
Women who grab their own sexuality and fight back
Webb on TTB
The narrator demonstrates a gradual abandonment of conventional rationality
