ENG239H1 Lecture 5: Dracula - Bram Stoker
Document Summary
Takes children"s blood doesn"t give anything in return. The monster is a disturbance of the natural order of things. When lucy becomes a vampire she embodies the symbolic characteristics of a women taking rather than giving. By becoming a vampire lucy becomes a hyper sexualized version of herself. Argued to essentially be a gang rape . The stake is an impressive instrument (his stake) Lucy is vulnerable to the men"s actions, cannot consent to the violence that is being done to her body. Arthur regains his sexual control by killing her and returning her to the purity she had before becoming a vampire. Refer to lucy as the thing dehumanizing her and talking away her gender. Helps justify her death by talking away her identity, have less emotional attachment for a thing than you do a person. Dracula"s death is dehumanized, only lucy"s death.
