1. Dracula and the Vampire Lestat
Laced throughout this gothic novel arise many of these sexual expressions, however, despite this underpinned sexuality there remains a conservative ideology of woman subversive to man; the idea of the pure woman being seduced by the overpowering man, in what is thought to be a lurid sexual act, yet also strives to maintain a level of the conservative and uphold the social morals of the nineteenth century. ... The idea of the damnation of the victim was perhaps the most damaging aspect of the curse of vampirism in past ages. ... As Lestat pursues this quest for meaning, the reader establishes...
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- Approx Pages: 11
- Grade Level: Undergraduate