Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Vampire, Dracula
and Victorian
Morality Theories
- Mary Douglas (1966)
- Purity and Danger (1966)
- Social order and heirarchy is
symbolised through the
sexual body
- Prejudice towards other
cultures (Eastern
Europen in Dracula case)
views on sex causes this
fear and taboo
- She exmined
different tribal
culture in
comparison to
westernised beliefs
about sex
- Michael Foucault (1976)
- A History of Sexuality Vol 1 (1976)
- We as a society are
obsessed with sex
- This obsession creates
discourse on the conduct of
sex and creates tabboo
which folk devils cross
- This discourse on sex intensified in the 18th century
- Anne Rice (1976)
- An Interview
with a Vampire
(1976)
- Vampires are
represented as beautiful
and immoral, not
obeying rules and
domination
- Doesn't break the
trditional sense in
that sunrise is their
only curfew
- They only reveal
their ugly side in
death
- Blood and vampire
infection were
metaphor for AIDS
at the time
- Stephanie Meyer
(2005)
- Twilight (2005)
- Vampires counteract the
anxieties of the family and
American value, they are
moral, believe in love, no
sex before marriage ect.
- They eat animals rather
than feast on humans
- Fairytale living happily
ever after with your
middle class vampire
family
- Margaret L. Carter
(1997)
- The Vampire as Alien
in Contemporary
Fiction (1997)
- The notion of the outsider in
Dracula horrified Victorians, but
is perceived as attractive today
- Rosemary Jackson (1981)
- Fantasy: The
Literature of
Subversion (1981)
- Stoker reinforces social
class, racial and sexual
prejudices
- Society can only
remain in tact by
excluding that 'other'
alien
- Housel and
Wisnewski
(2009)
- Twilight and Philosophy (2009)
- Food is used as a metaphor for love
ans desire as it is likened to hunger
- The vampire no longer
requires blood but love