Dracula Sex Quotes Page 2
Citations follow this format: (Chapter.Paragraph)
| Quote #4 […] we recognized the features of Lucy Westenra. Lucy Westenra, but yet how changed. The sweetness was turned to adamantine, heartless cruelty, and the purity to voluptuous wantonness. (16.17) |
Jack Seward can't believe how much "Lucy Westenra" has changed – he keeps repeating her full name, emphasizing that it's now just an empty label. "Lucy Westenra" is no longer herself; this over-sexed she-demon is not the girl he fell in love with. This vampire lady might be sexy, but she's sexy in a totally freaky way.
| Quote #5 She still advanced, however, and with a languorous, voluptuous grace, said: – |
Again, vampire Lucy is too sexually aggressive. In the world of Victorian England, that sexuality needs to be repressed!
| Quote #6 Arthur placed the point over the heart, and as I looked I could see its dint in the white flesh. Then he struck with all his might. (16.44) |
A lot of critics like to read this scene in Freudian terms as a kind of sex scene. Because Arthur is Lucy's fiancé, and he gets dibs on staking her, these critics interpret the stake as a stand-in for Arthur's penis. What do you think?
