Female Sexuality In Bram Stoker's Dracula

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Most people just love a story about blood, death, and love… well, there isn’t a better place to turn than to Dracula… as some would say, the classic story of true love- with some serious problems. Bram Stokers Dracula has been loved for many centuries by many people, for many different reasons. Some want to know who the original Dracula is… and why he is so famous, others love the writing style, and some simply indulge in it because it's got all the gory stuff. Although, a there has been a contradictory topic devoted to this book for years-- the main theme of Dracula. Many people have very different ideas as to what this is, some saying it has to do with female sexuality, others think it always has been and always will be simply a horror novel. In all respect to those ideas, because there really are many themes woven throughout Bram Stoker's novel, the prevalent is probably that of good vs. evil, and the undeniable fact that Evil cannot prevail when there is good to stop it. …show more content…

Harker, an employee in a London law firm, has been sent to complete some business with Count Dracula… a citizen that's has decided to purchase land around the London area. Harker was not originally the one planned to travel, but circumstances arose and the firm sent Harker to finish the purchase. The locals view Dracula with undisguised dread, but Harker was sent to do a job and he planned to do it. Once arrived, Jonathan realizes that The Count is not what he expected… and that things may not go as planned. “While Count Dracula was speaking, there was that in his eyes and in his bearing which made me remember that I was a prisoner, and that if I wished it I could have no choice” (Dracula, Page 42) He knows that now he has come, there will be no chosen