{"id":1038,"date":"2017-11-21T23:48:10","date_gmt":"2017-11-22T04:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/?p=1038"},"modified":"2017-11-30T11:36:47","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T16:36:47","slug":"women-in-the-lady-of-shalott-and-dracula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/2017\/11\/21\/women-in-the-lady-of-shalott-and-dracula\/","title":{"rendered":"Women in “The Lady of Shalott” and ‘Dracula’"},"content":{"rendered":"

While looking at the texts of “<\/span>The Lady of Shalott<\/span>“<\/span><\/i> and <\/span>Dracula<\/span><\/i>, I notice a similarity between the depiction of women through a lens of female sexuality. In <\/span>Dracula<\/span><\/i>, Lucy demonstrates an inability to resist the temptation of an attractive man. Lucy\u2019s beauty and flirtatious personality attracts multiple men. Following three suitors\u2019 proposal, Lucy writes Mina, \u201cwhy can\u2019t they [Victorian society] let a girl marry three men, or as many as want her, and save all this trouble?\u201d (Stoker 67). Lucy\u2019s promiscuity is in some ways a curse because Dracula views her as an easy target and Lucy is vulnerable to his evil powers and vampirism. Stoker depicts Lucy to regularly demonstrate a lack of control around men.<\/span><\/p>\n

In “The Lady of Shalott,”<\/i><\/span>\u00a0the Lady fails to resist the sight of the Knight of Camelot. When the Knight arrives with his gang in Shalott, she disregards the mirror and leaves the confines of her limited tower walls. The Lady believes that if she goes down to Shalott and makes contact with the Knight, he will fall madly in love with her. After \u201cShe look’d down to Camelot,\u201d the Lady cries, \u201cThe curse is come upon me.\u201d As soon as the Lady leaves her weave, she is cursed to death. This represents the VIctorian idea that women should be confined to the domestic sphere and should not be sexual beings seeking love and lust. Lord Tennyson portrays the Lady as defiant and profane once graced with the Knight\u2019s presence.<\/span><\/p>\n

Both Lucy and the Lady are temptresses and attempt to tempt men even though it leads to their deaths. Both Stoker and Lady Tennyson depict women to be uncontrollable and obsessive when around men.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While looking at the texts of “The Lady of Shalott“ and Dracula, I notice a similarity between the depiction of women through a lens of female sexuality. In Dracula, Lucy demonstrates an inability to resist the temptation of an attractive man. Lucy\u2019s beauty and flirtatious personality attracts multiple men. Following three suitors\u2019 proposal, Lucy writes … Continue reading Women in “The Lady of Shalott” and ‘Dracula’<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3618,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123801],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-blog-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3618"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}