study of Dracula and Twilight when it comes to race, class, gender and sex but also religion. 4.1 Gender/Sexuality. In Dracula the characters follow curtain roles and perform actions that usually are significant for the opposite sex. Three main characters are portrayed by Stokes in ways that implies that the gender roles are reversed. Jonathan Harker is a victim, Mina Harker is one of the men in the novel and is portrayed as a modern woman and Count Dracula push the lines of sexuality. Jonathan
n Dracula, several characters are seen following roles and actions that are usually reserved for the opposite sex, these situations allow for the Victorian reader to understand that this is a special situation and that something is not right. In clearer terms, the switching and blurring of gender roles allows for a greater sense of strangeness and wrongness for the novel to continue successfully as horror fiction. Jonathan Harker is the first character we see allowing himself to be feminized, firstly
____________________________________ Richard Marsh’s horror novel The Beetle (published in 1897, the same year as Bram Stoker’s Dracula) has been credited as his most successful commercial work, though he also authored several other novels and short stories in the same genre. It tells the story of a fantastical shape-shifting creature (at times a gender-ambiguous human, and at other times, a beetle) who stalks a popular politician in Victorian society. The Beetle is very much a novel
migration of monsters of the Gothic era to the monsters of today, with evidence from professional journals, structuring, and the works themselves. Halberstam utilizes quotes from various journals including one written by Bram Stoker, the writer of Dracula. Stoker in this essay examines what makes monsters scary and how censorship of
Learning Journal: Week 1: Romanticism: • Rose in the 1790s in Germany and Britain, and in the 1820s in France and elsewhere, it is known as the Romantic Movement or Romantic Revival • Writers of the time thought of them self as free spirits that wrote of the imaginative truth within them self, and repudiated the aristocratic way of life. • The creative imagination occupied the centre of Romantic views of art Writers and texts: William Blake: Songs of Innocence, Lewis: Tales of Terror Jane