Title The motivations of human nature surfaces as the perpetual conflict between primitive lust for self-indulgent desires and socially conditioned morality. The societal expectations of moral justice weaves a gossamer veil to masquerade the subconscious mind’s desire for immediate gratification—to fabricate a thin façade to subdue the subconscious mind’s insatiable, vampiric nature. Freud’s theory regarding the constant struggle between the subconscious mind’s desire for gratification versus the conscious mind’s desire to conform to societal morality surfaces as his notion of the id versus the superego, and explores the tenacity of the gossamer veil of morality in the face of humanity’s inherently depraved nature. This perpetual struggle to weave or ravage the gossamer veil ultimately surfaces as the …show more content…
In Bram Stoker’s work of Gothic Literature, Dracula, protagonists and female heroine, Mina and Lucy, emphasize the innate conflict between inherent avarice and socially imposed justice through the exploration of the subconscious mind. In relation to Lucy’s rejection of vampiric obstructions in the subconscious state, Mina’s connection to Dracula through hypnotism, and both women’s connection to Dracula, Stoker emphasizes humanity’s fabricated veil of morality in the face of its inherently depraved nature. Firstly, Lucy’s inherent desire to succumb to Dracula’s depravity epitomizes the role of the subconscious state on the innate struggle between man’s instinctual evil and construed morality. After Dracula partakes upon the blood of Lucy, Lucy becomes subject to transition into vampirism—she struggles to thwart her insatiable desire to descend into perpetual depravity. Dracula embodies the corruption of Victorian age’s social norms, as he opposes the male gender role to protect