`Read` Your World

br `Read` Your World Memo The artifact that I chose for my study is Bram Stoker 's novel Dracula (1897 . The thesis I developed in working with this novel relates to gender issues , specifically the issue of feminine sexuality adn its suppression or subversion through literary works . Although the novel is widely regarded by critics and readers as a masterpiece of Gothic fiction , many critics , specifically those who embrace a feminist attitude , make valid criticisms of the novel as representing a misogynistic mode of literary expression

Any reviewer of my examination

of this thesis should pay particular attention to the manner in which my explication couples the idea of sexual promiscuity adn moral abandonment which permeate Dracula . The most important connection I hope to make in my study is that , for Stoker , the loss of sexual restraint and erotic repression represents the breakdown of social mores , which in turn brings about anti-social behavior and the corruption of the individual . Stoker 's novel is quite moralistic in that it challenges readers to imagine a world where social conventions are not only tested , bent , and broken -- they are utterly eradicated . Finally , even the veil between life and death which is a part of rational perception is given over to the them of the "unlead Scholarly support for this my thesis was widely available the most difficult aspects of formulating the argument and elucidating the thesis were those aspects which pertained to direct explication of the narrative

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