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vickyvicarious · 2 years

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Wow, I hate this essay ('Suddenly Sexual Women in Bram Stoker's Dracula' by Phyllis A. Roth)!

As funny as the phrase, "the Big Daddy, Dracula" is, the reliance on a Freudian/Oedipal complex reading drives me mad every time. Factor in the insistence on reading the heroes' relationships with one another in the worst possible light, and I am fully against this one. Which is annoying, because it kept almost going in interesting directions before veering back to this kind of nonsense.

#dracula daily #norton notes #ai yai yai....#it's not even 'we didn’t read the same book'#it's 'you are trying super hard to interpret this book a certain way and twisting the text to suit that purpose'#including lotsa ''this CLEARLY demonstrates x'' while either not bothering to quote or using the worst interpretation of the characters...#there are 6 more essays in my book. some of them have quite interesting titles so i hope they're better than this one #though i was interested by the title of this one as well...#didn't expect it to jump right to 'dracula is dad and mina and lucy are mom and everyone wants to fuck/murder mom and murder dad'. yeesh

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