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Victorian Sexuality In Bram Stoker's Dracula

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The novel reveals a lot of information about Victorian sexuality. Undoubtedly, sex plays a big part when discussing gender roles. In the Victorian era, women who show sexual tendencies or desires are considered impure. When Lucy is sick, Dr. Van Helsing is desperate to supply her with blood. He describes a blood transfer as an intimate transaction. Similarly, Victorian society sees this as intimate. Hence the reason Dracula takes advantage of his victims and arouses their sexuality by sucking their blood. Blood sucking represents the taboo desires and sexual repression of the time
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