Dracula Critical interpretations
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- Bookman's Reviewer- understood the narrative as a heroic, conservative tale "of
human courage pitted against inhuman wrong."
- Kuzmanovic- Harker, along with fear, develops a "sympathy, and perhaps desire, for
Dracula.”
- Kuzmanovic-Harker's imprisonment in Dracula's castle is a "gender inversion".
- Alan P. Johnson (1987)- Dracula exposes “female characters unconscious rebellious
desires and the male characters oppressive egotism”
- Muskovitz-vampiresses “upset the Victorian standards for females"
- Muskovitz-"bloodsucking is a metaphor for coitus" And "blood is interchangeable with
semen"
- Eleane Showalter- Lucy’s death was a gang rape
- Fred Botting- “Dracula’s crossing of boundaries is relentless”- dead, undead, east,
west ect…
- Fred Botting- Dracula "elicits rather than dispels superstitious beliefs"
- Stephen D. Arata--"Dracula is the most 'western' character in the novel"
- Stephen D. Arata-"The coloniser finds himself in the position of the colonised”
- Polish National Ballet production- Drac and Harker perform a passionate tango
- Coppola’s 1992 film adaptation- Mina and Dracula have an affair.
- Coppola’s 1992 film adaptation- Mina and Lucy kiss
- Marilyn Brock writes, the fear of reverse colonization is delivered through the
portrayal of evil characters with racial features “deracinating victims through sexually
aggressive acts.”
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- Bookman's Reviewer- understood the narrative as a heroic, conservative tale "of
human courage pitted against inhuman wrong."
- Kuzmanovic- Harker, along with fear, develops a "sympathy, and perhaps desire, for
Dracula.”
- Kuzmanovic-Harker's imprisonment in Dracula's castle is a "gender inversion".
- Alan P. Johnson (1987)- Dracula exposes “female characters unconscious rebellious
desires and the male characters oppressive egotism”
- Muskovitz-vampiresses “upset the Victorian standards for females"
- Muskovitz-"bloodsucking is a metaphor for coitus" And "blood is interchangeable with
semen"
- Eleane Showalter- Lucy’s death was a gang rape
- Fred Botting- “Dracula’s crossing of boundaries is relentless”- dead, undead, east,
west ect…
- Fred Botting- Dracula "elicits rather than dispels superstitious beliefs"
- Stephen D. Arata--"Dracula is the most 'western' character in the novel"
- Stephen D. Arata-"The coloniser finds himself in the position of the colonised”
- Polish National Ballet production- Drac and Harker perform a passionate tango
- Coppola’s 1992 film adaptation- Mina and Dracula have an affair.
- Coppola’s 1992 film adaptation- Mina and Lucy kiss
- Marilyn Brock writes, the fear of reverse colonization is delivered through the
portrayal of evil characters with racial features “deracinating victims through sexually
aggressive acts.”
