t and responsibility of vigorous appetite, while requiring the more passive female to suffer and be still” (Auerbach and Skal 444-445). Of course, the female vampires in the novel take the active role more than Victorian restrictions allowed women in society, so we see an inversion of those roles in Dracula.
Of course, throughout the novel we see that vampirism most equates with sexuality. Without overdoing a Freudian analysis of the story, there are enough sexual references to satisfy the least Victorian in nature among us. However, the Victorian repression theme plays a role in the sexuality of
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