{"id":873,"date":"2017-11-02T09:36:57","date_gmt":"2017-11-02T13:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/?p=873"},"modified":"2017-11-30T11:42:15","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T16:42:15","slug":"a-womans-saving-grace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/2017\/11\/02\/a-womans-saving-grace\/","title":{"rendered":"A Woman’s Saving Grace"},"content":{"rendered":"

While femininity is an underlying theme in most novels of this time period, Bram Stoker, in his novel Dracula<\/em>, takes this theme one step further and delves into how women can only be saved by a man.\u00a0 Granted, Lucy is nearly killed by Dracula however, most of this novel focuses on the men in Lucy\u2019s life attempting to save her from near death.\u00a0 When Lucy is losing a great amount of blood each night and becoming closer and closer to dying, the only thing to save her is a man\u2019s blood.\u00a0 \u201cA brave man\u2019s blood is the best thing on this earth when a woman is in trouble\u201d (Stoker, 160).\u00a0 This quote by Van Helsing is an excellent example of how men during this time period thought of women in trouble.\u00a0 Men are the heroes always swooping in to save the day.\u00a0 In this novel, no women are there to save Lucy.\u00a0 Perhaps one of the nurses could have used their blood to conduct the transfusions however, it ultimately ends up being one of the men to always aid in this process.<\/p>\n

Ultimately, it ends up being Arthur who turns Lucy back into a human.\u00a0 \u201cArthur took the stake and the hammer, and when once his mind was set on action his hands never trembled nor even quivered\u201d (Stoker, 230).\u00a0 Arthur, without hesitation, drives the stake into Lucy\u2019s heart declaring him her saving grace.\u00a0 Lucy could not save herself, no woman could save her, but a man was the only person who could save her life.\u00a0 This passage is also a great example of a man taking possession of a woman.\u00a0 Throughout the novel, Lucy had received blood from many different men symbolizing her many relationships.\u00a0 Arthur, however, declares her his own by physically taking her heart for himself in this somewhat sexual resurrection of Lucy\u2019s life.<\/p>\n

Masculinity and femininity are a quite common theme among novels of this time period, yet Stoker takes Dracula<\/em> a step further offering insight on how women not only need men in their life but they quite literally need men to save their life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While femininity is an underlying theme in most novels of this time period, Bram Stoker, in his novel Dracula, takes this theme one step further and delves into how women can only be saved by a man.\u00a0 Granted, Lucy is nearly killed by Dracula however, most of this novel focuses on the men in Lucy\u2019s … Continue reading A Woman’s Saving Grace<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3627,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[123801],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-873","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\/873","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\/3627"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/secretlives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}