Femininity Vs. Masculinity, By Bram Stoker s Dracula

Femininity Vs. Masculinity Vincent D’Onofrio said â€Å"To me the definition of true masculinity and femininity, too – is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.† In other words, male can’t be too masculine and female can be too feminine, but both qualities can show though any human because of how we act and our emotions. In Bram Stoker, Dracula, each character faces difficult obstacles between the lines of being all man or facing the structures of being a woman. With the help of two critical essays to analyze Dracula through their writing as well as to help understand the differences and non-differences. One essay wrote by Bram Dijkstra called â€Å"[Dracula’s Backlash]†, I liked his essay because of how he looks at Dracula and how are†¦show more content†¦460). Not to discard men as nothing but women should get the same praise as men do. Men are strong, and will always want to save the girl, but sometimes the girl needs to save herself. The idea that man was made before the woman, must make them more special, yet others says we are to be equals. With the struggle between man and woman, who’s to say what is right and wrong. Both men and women are alike in many ways both can get scared when something goes bump in the night. Second, for instance the character, Mina is a â€Å"new woman† for her ways. In the Victorian era, women were just getting into the age of the workforce while many women were getting educated and becoming more of a force to be wrecked with. Men were not happy with women becoming more then a housewife and a child bearer. Mina in the book, Dracula, shows the possible woman learning how to become more than just a daughter to be married off to a man. In Stoker’s view of Mina tells Lucy, â€Å"I have been practicing shorthand very assiduously†¦ When we married I shall be able to be useful to Jonathan, and if I can stenograph well enough I can take down what he says in this way and write it out for him on the typewriter, atShow MoreRelatedThe Old Vampire Trend : Bram Stoker s Dracula1856 Words   |  8 Pagesso very 1890s? In 1897, Bram Stoker took central European folk tales and turned them into one of the most famous horror books of all time. Stoker s Dracula isn t y oung and sparkly-hot; he s creepy, old, and likes turning into bats and clouds of mist. Just like today, vampires in 1897 stood in for a lot of contemporary fears and anxieties. This is a novel that took a pretty obscure folk tale creep and skyrocketed him into fame and everlasting pop-cultural stardom. It s a novel that used a mythologicalRead MoreHomosexuality in Victorian and Elizabethan Literature.6608 Words   |  27 Pagesdoes. Gothic writers of the Victorian Age played off of the fear and immorality of homosexuality and used those feelings as a basis for their novels. Bram Stoker told a story about a vampire that challenged the Victorian gender roles and managed to reverse them, making men faint like women, and making women powerful like men, and called it Dracula. Mary Shelley created a a physical being out of a mans suppressed homosexuality due to his Victorian male upbringing; a man named Frankenstein. Robert