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The Role Of Sexuality In Dracula By Brahm Stoker

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As a woman in the Victorian era, you have three options. You are either a pure blessed virgin, a married wife and mother, or a ravenous harlot. This seemingly repressed period of history was dominated by the idea that one’s sexuality formed their identity, social standing, and respectability. Ironically, the modern person would think of the common Victorian as extremely repressed and didactic, when in fact sexuality became a private focus in the public through literature and arts. These ideas of glorifying sexuality are very prevalent in Brahm Stoker’s Dracula: a Victorian horror/thriller that shows caters to that of male desire, while still discreetly recognizes the power and danger of a sexually expressive female.
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