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The Idea Of Intimacy In Bram Stoker's Dracula

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Dracula meant a turning point in the vampire genre, Dracula breaks with the ideals of intimacy that were forbidden at the time it was published, after this novel, vampires became rulers and moved to America. Due to American democracy, monarchs were taken apart from the vampiric literature, in the same way that Victorian patriarchal precepts forbade citizens to long for friendship. It is in the twentieth century when vampires implicated themselves in the sources of power; and thus, defining the new concept of the psychic vampire, which do not simply drink blood of their victim, but drain the energy out of them: “They drink energy, emotional generosity, self-control, creativity, talent, memories even (in a recent story) as mundane a life fluid
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