... the devil's Un-Dead. She is God's true dead, whose soul is with Him! (279). The idea of the damnation of the victim was perhaps the most damaging aspect of the curse of vampirism in past ages. This is notably concurrent to developing cultures' attitudes to rape. In earlier centuries, women who ... nineteenth century, the notion that communities are protected; evil will be displaced and makes the character of Dracula, himself a cold being, " he is brute, and more than brute: he is devil in callous, and the heart of him is not - (304). There is no opportunity for the audience to sympathise...

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