Dracula Critics

he is a reflection of the male desire for

dominance over the fearfully strong women. Cluley 2010

fused to the latest advancements in the

physical and psychological sciences. Luckhurst

Her state of uncleanliness will become permanent unless they can conquer Dracula

and reclaim her sexuality as well as her soul. Swarz-Levine

Zanger links Dracula to the immigration

of Eastern European Jews to England. Tomaszewska

penalising her for being

corrupted by Dracula. Bergstrand 2020

promises redemption, but only in a

perverted, predatory form. Punter 2016

shifted from traditional authority of

religion to the scientific. Luckhurst

the use of blood as depicting

a fear of menstruation. Cluley 2010

threatening degenerate was commonly identified as the racial other,

the alien who invades to disrupt the domestic order. Tomaszewska

we might see Dracula as a sort of ghost... the archaic

flaw that is always present, Punter 2016

Harker takes the woman's crucifix, despite believing that the cross will do

nothing. Harker thus has a kernel of superstition. Schlegel 2014

as little more than the misogyny symptomatic of a

patriarchal fin de siecle society. Coe 2022.

the fear of those natural elements is

more animal than human. Agin 2020

the distance between Transylvania and England is

not only figurative, but literal. Jacobson