Sadman Sakir

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CCS-202, Scene Analysis

Lucy flirting with his suitors

Bram Stoker’s Dracula is a work of fantasy fiction. It portrays the repression of the Victorian Society through various characters in the movie. The movie did not directly portray what the Victorians considered as sexual perversions. Rather Stoker used blood as a camouflage to indicate the sexual intercourse and the perversions. We saw that Dracula survived on sucking blood using the neck; which portrayed sex and Stoker brilliantly expressed it throughout the movie.

Lucy is one of the characters who portrayed the repressed women of that Era. Lucy is a good-hearted woman who is confused about committing to one man. We see her as this jolly-hearted fun free girl who goes to Mina to confide her secrets about her commitments. She is a little bit of flirtatious and tempting which showed the opposite of the Victorian Era as most of the women at that time needed either to be married or have a suitor. But we see Lucy on the other hand flirting with all the three men one after another at the same time. Her flirting and tempting nature made her more vulnerable to Dracula’s seduction, which gets more clear to us when she admits to Mina that she is confused about choosing a man and having problem on whose proposal she would accept.

Her want with the men in this context refers to sexual significance. We see that she does not feel any true love for her suitors but she fantasizes about casual sexual inclinations. This portrays her intentions of dissatisfaction with the institution of monogamy. This is again a portrayal of the repressed of the Victorians. Stoker makes out point of repression in most of the scenes.

We again see the sexual inclinations when Lucy is getting a blood transfusion from the men; which can only be interpreted as an act of homosexuality among the men. It also emphasizes Lucy’s desire for polygamous marriage, which she talks about with Mina and show us when he flirts with all his suitors one after another at the same party.

Lucy’s death scene as a vampire shows us that it was a scene of penetration, sexuality and rape. Since she had sexual intercourse with only Dracula, it was her husband’s first time to have intercourse experience through stabbing the stake. When Arthur Lucy’s husband puts the stake through her heart with rage while Lucy screams and quivers, which indicates sexual inclination. We also see Arthur is drained out of vital fluids, sweat, which encodes both blood and semen.