{"id":1090,"date":"2023-09-30T20:51:59","date_gmt":"2023-10-01T00:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/britishlit\/?p=1090"},"modified":"2023-09-30T20:51:59","modified_gmt":"2023-10-01T00:51:59","slug":"women-with-desire-must-die-apparently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/britishlit\/2023\/09\/30\/women-with-desire-must-die-apparently\/","title":{"rendered":"Women with desire must die (apparently)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear readers,<\/span><\/p>\n

Welcome back. Today, we will be viewing Bram Stoker\u2019s Dracula through the lens of desire. But this time, I\u2019m going to bring in a secondary source of media called Castlevania. For context, Castlevania is a show on Netflix that\u2019s technically considered an anime and based on the 1990 video game Castlevania III: Dracula’s Curse. It’s also where my name comes from though I\u2019m regretfully not the hot and unrealistically jacked son of Dracula.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Anyways, it\u2019s really interesting actually how both Lucy from Stoker\u2019s Dracula and Dracula\u2019s wife Lisa from Castlevania are very similar in that both are killed for who they become in the eyes of society and men; Lucy is brutally de-vampirized because the gang in Dracula reasons that Lucy is corrupted now. So they have to take it upon themselves to restore her virginity\/innocence. Lucy is indeed fatally beautiful but its more about how her new state of <\/span>desire<\/b> as a vampire is taboo in a society where women are expected to be pure, compliant, and essentially the lesser man of the two.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Lisa is a stunningly attractive blonde-haired white woman like Lucy (coincidence, I think not) but she isn\u2019t a vampire or even turned into one. She is a mortal woman who has a <\/span>desire<\/b> to learn the sciences which she then uses to help teach people about science and heal patients as a doctor. Yeah, she\u2019s pretty badass. However, this desire and occupation is just as illicit and consequential as Lucy\u2019s vampire transformation. The Bishop and the church in this show aren\u2019t happy with this science since it goes against their religious community. They decide Lisa is a witch using black magic on the people and hang her on a stake (sound familiar) where she is burned alive. Shocker, religion and a ruthless killing comes into play here too. It seems society doesn\u2019t want beautiful women to be anything other than two dimensional subservients.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Though Lucy is a literal maneater and Lisa is a woman of science, I would argue that the archetype of the femme fatale still connects them for the double standards of gender that they break. Let me elaborate. Isn\u2019t it intriguing that the novel and the tv show parallel with self-acclaimed righteous men? Is it too much to state that the men in Dracula and the church in Castlevania act in a way they think is justified because they\u2019ve convinced themselves that its for the good of society, when really, it\u2019s their ego and personal beliefs getting in the way?? But by god, the minute a woman shows up acting the way she wants because she <\/span>desires<\/b> something more, men basically throw a tantrum and cry \u201cOFF WITH HER HEAD!\u201d Well I guess in this case, it would be stab her in the heart or burn her alive\u2026 ouch. My point is, Lucy and Lisa disrupt the order of society for being the abnormal woman and the result is their coordinated deaths. Justice for Lucy and Lisa.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Until next time,<\/span><\/p>\n

Alucard <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dear readers, Welcome back. Today, we will be viewing Bram Stoker\u2019s Dracula through the lens of desire. But this time, I\u2019m going to bring in a secondary source of media called Castlevania. For context, Castlevania is a show on Netflix that\u2019s technically considered an anime and based on the 1990 video game Castlevania III: Dracula’s … Continue reading Women with desire must die (apparently)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4770,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125361],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2023-blog-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/britishlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/britishlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/britishlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/britishlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4770"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/britishlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/britishlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/britishlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/britishlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/britishlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}