Bram Stoker's 'Homosexuality In Dracula'
"Homosexuality in Dracula"
The legendary novel Dracula is gothic, bloody and oozing with sexuality. Bram Stoker 's vampiric plot reflects his ideology and experience and Dracula received a lot of attention from critics who showed various complex interpretations. During this course we have looked at critical essays that looked in depth at different scenes in Dracula and we drew different images from critics ' interpretations, which were built on their understanding of these scenes. Most of these critics, like Senf and Wicke, would argue within a small-scale circumference of sexuality, emphasized in the sexual desire of the Count to vamp women, or in how the innocent women are involved in sexual scenes after being seduced by Count Dracula 's …show more content…
Along the lines of her argument and although Count Dracula does not declare much in the novel, his speeches often indicate sexual aggression. Highlighting his following dialogue, "My revenge is just begun! I spread it over the centuries, and time is on my side. Your girls that you all love are mine already; and through them you and others shall yet be mine . . ."(267). Here Dracula identifies the procedure of exchange by which the female represents the river in which males are penetrated. Broadening the argument further, Dracula does not only suck Lucy 's blood when he vamps her, but also the three male characters’ who have transferred their blood into her. Van Helsing himself reveals this decisive information: "… even we four who gave our strength to Lucy it also is all to him"(181). Van Helsing does not express unhappiness regarding the connection between the male characters and Dracula as if Stoker is saying 'It is fine ' to have this kind of relationship within society. As Schaffer argued "This interposition of a woman between Dracula and Van Helsing should not surprise us; in England, as in Castle Dracula, a violent wrestle between males is mediated through a feminine form"(Schaffer 117). Schaffer underlines the framework that Stoker uses to deliver a masked homosexuality whenever he addresses it in Dracula in order to avoid negative sanctions from the readers and
The legendary novel Dracula is gothic, bloody and oozing with sexuality. Bram Stoker 's vampiric plot reflects his ideology and experience and Dracula received a lot of attention from critics who showed various complex interpretations. During this course we have looked at critical essays that looked in depth at different scenes in Dracula and we drew different images from critics ' interpretations, which were built on their understanding of these scenes. Most of these critics, like Senf and Wicke, would argue within a small-scale circumference of sexuality, emphasized in the sexual desire of the Count to vamp women, or in how the innocent women are involved in sexual scenes after being seduced by Count Dracula 's …show more content…
Along the lines of her argument and although Count Dracula does not declare much in the novel, his speeches often indicate sexual aggression. Highlighting his following dialogue, "My revenge is just begun! I spread it over the centuries, and time is on my side. Your girls that you all love are mine already; and through them you and others shall yet be mine . . ."(267). Here Dracula identifies the procedure of exchange by which the female represents the river in which males are penetrated. Broadening the argument further, Dracula does not only suck Lucy 's blood when he vamps her, but also the three male characters’ who have transferred their blood into her. Van Helsing himself reveals this decisive information: "… even we four who gave our strength to Lucy it also is all to him"(181). Van Helsing does not express unhappiness regarding the connection between the male characters and Dracula as if Stoker is saying 'It is fine ' to have this kind of relationship within society. As Schaffer argued "This interposition of a woman between Dracula and Van Helsing should not surprise us; in England, as in Castle Dracula, a violent wrestle between males is mediated through a feminine form"(Schaffer 117). Schaffer underlines the framework that Stoker uses to deliver a masked homosexuality whenever he addresses it in Dracula in order to avoid negative sanctions from the readers and