Examples Of Cannibalism In Dracula

Cannibalism has been described as one of the most passionate forms of love and with the repression of queer representation in media due to the normalization of homophobia, Dracula’s relationship with Jonathan Harker may be written the way it was to show queer intimacy without writing it directly. With the way the novel was written, and with journal entries, Jonathan gives the reader an unreliable look into his story, especially since the reader is unsure of Dracula’s true feelings when he writes. There are more modern examples of this being more explicitly shown, for example in the NBC show Hannibal. A show that shows a man slowly being consumed by his murderous instinct, only succumbing to it quicker because of the influence of cannibal, Hannibal