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The Role Of Women In Dracula By Bram Stroker's Dracula

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In Bram Stroker’s Dracula, the character of Mina must overcome her fears in order to survive, which is true of those people who lived during the Victorian Era. Bram Stoker wrote his novel Dracula targeting those who were less capable of surviving in the Victorian Era. The main idea of the novel is to show that the bigger, stronger person will always go after the lesser, more defenseless person, which in most cases is women. Dracula also targets Christians and those who worship God. Stoker makes it very clear to the audience of Dracula that he believed that women are the lesser sex and do not mean as much to this world as men too. He gives many examples of this, when Mina was considered the knowledgeable woman in Dracula and Dracula himself said so. Stoker gives Mina the benefit of the doubt when she is the only woman considered in the execution plan of Dracula. The three sisters seen in Dracula’s castle were thrown away with a weak bone, although they could have easily attacked Jonathan when he fell asleep in a room other than his own. “Despair has its own claims” (Stoker 46). Dracula’s reason and thoughts behind saying this is that he knows that one cannot do something without a single consequence. Dracula knows that, Jonathan in this case, will do anything to leave The Count’s castle. So he treats anything and everything Jonathan does with a sweet note; if he wants to fall asleep in another room and The Count specifically said only to sleep in his room, there will be

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