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Gender Stereotypes In Bram Stoker's Dracula

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Bram Stoker’s Dracula, tells the story of a vampire that preys on the blood of people to gain nourishment and replenish his health from the lack thereof. Dracula is a character that much like any other vampire tale, chooses victims that are easily manipulated or are easy to lure into his vicious cycle of blood sucking and neck biting. The story of Dracula criticizes gender roles, social statuses, and ideologies that are within members of a society. There is great emphasis placed on the idea of ideologies and how this fundamental notion shapes the reality of the characters in the story. To further explain this, it is important to mention that Louis Althusser, a French philosopher, modified Karl Marx’s theories of base and superstructures, in
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