Dracula: revision of key themes

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  • Dracula
    • Female sexuality
    • Villain/victim
      • Women
        • Lucy part victim, part villain - targeted by Dracula (external), but gives in to temptation (interntal)
          • Eve + Garden of Eden
      • Dracula
        • Clearly a villain - his link to the East draws upon Victorian fear of outsider + immigration
      • Harker
        • Dracula: 'this man belongs to me!'
    • The 'other'/ outsider
      • Dracula: Jewish facial features, 'aquiline nose'
      • from the 'extreme east' of Transylvania
      • 'the Slovaks were more barbarian that the rest'
      • 'the further east you go the more unpunctual are the trains'
    • Religion/superstition vs modernity
      • religious iconography repels the vampires
      • science and religion used together to combat Dracula
    • Narrative perspective
      • no narrative voice of Dracula or anyone from the east
      • solely from a western perspective - centred around modernity, rationality and empire

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