Stripped Wom Restrictions On The Female Body - 1348 Words

Stripped Woman Restrictions on the female body Bram Stoker in Dracula imagens a â€Å"proper women† by demonizing Lucy ascribing to her traits of a wanton woman; a whore of a demon. A misogynistic attitude is popular in a patriarchal society especially in the middle of the nineteenth century. On the other hand, Mina although is praised; Stoker unconsciously ties in her behavior that may resemble a woman of propriety she is the very bane of what a progressive woman looks like when looking at her through a gynocritics lens. To prepare the reader for the ideology of the â€Å"new and proper woman,† Stoker gives Dr. Steward and Van Helsing separate spheres from that of Lucy’s and Mina’s Character. In chapter fifteen, they are now experts in the dealings and explanation of Lucy the human and Lucy the Un-Dead. As we read the chapters sixteen and seventeen it is preconditioned for us to follow the ways they are dealing with Lucy. It is justifiable to call her a v oluptuous lipped â€Å"thing† without a soul. Their credibility as learned men allow for them to penetrate a woman for the sake of her soul so she can take her place amongst angels. A woman in the nineteenth century is synonymous to the term â€Å"Angel.† Doing anything that is non-Angelic, like the suffragettes places the women to be the binary opposition to Angel; Demon. The â€Å"proper woman† is demonstrated with terminology such as; â€Å"purity, sweetness, and dainty-looking† (Dracula 211) (220). The interpretation would be considered more