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A 3 page paper which examines the role of women in Bram Stoker's novel Dracula. Bibliography lists 3 additional sources.
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also a novel that is classic in terms of its subject matter: Dracula. In this book we have Dracula and women find him incredibly intriguing. This is perhaps because he
was, although incredibly dangerous to the point of taking their life, a man who appreciated their beauty and sexuality, something that Victorian men essentially ignored, took for granted, or oppressed.
The following paper examinees the role fo Victorian women and women in Bram Stokers Dracula. Victorian Women in Bram Stokers Dracula Women in Victorian times were very much
oppressed by men in their world. One author notes, "The degradation of the married woman in the Victorian era existed not only in that she was stripped of all her
legal rights but also that no obligations were placed in her realm" (Lady Geraldines Courtship). When she became married, the only real option open to the future of a Victorian
woman, she gave up all rights she had in terms of personal property. Her husband would receive everything she owned, and any money owed to her. In the eyes of
the law women were "legally incompetent and irresponsible" and thus she had no power whatsoever in her home or in society (Lady Geraldines Courtship). One particular jurist once stated that
when a man and woman become married they become one person, but that one person was the man, the husband, thus indicating that a woman actually became all but non-existent
in society (Lady Geraldines Courtship). In addition it was common for women to be seen as all but empty vessels whose job was to do whatever her husband demanded,
even as far as sexual activity was concerned. It was commonly believed that women had no desire for sexual relations and that it was permissible, if not encouraged, for a
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