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Moriah Whiteman
Mrs. Cramer
College Comp. 1 Pd 1
30 October, 2015
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compassionate in comparison? If the reader is not comforted by the simple fact that sexism is not
as prominent as it once was then the reader by definition is crazy!
It does not end there my friend, Stoker addresses two social issues in his novel, as you saw
in the previous paragraph one was sexual discrimination and the other is social class. He conveys
typical stereotypes such as how men are always courageous, whereas, women are delicate. I
suppose that we women are such cowards that we think a man will save us from fear, and we
marry him. The reader can deny my accusations but this quote was quite candid and revealing
of his view on this specific issue. If that was yet insufficient then read on. "A brave man's blood
is the best thing on this earth when a woman is in trouble. You're a man, and no mistake." This is
such a great quote because through it you can see how he bluntly states a woman's need of a
"brave" man because a woman is too weak to care for herself in times of trouble. If the "brave"
man's blood did anything in the book it was prolonging a painful death and repeatedly bringing
Dracula back for more blood. Although, women were not the only ones discriminated against in
this novel, the lower class was as well. The characters for the duration of this book were all
wealthy. I could not find the specific area for my supporting quote but it basically said how it
would have been impossible for the team to have tracked Count Dracula if they did not have a
means of bribery. This is still true in the time we live in now, if you do not have money then you
are unable to save or protect your loved ones. You have to be wealthy to be a hero.
With that being said, Mr. Stokers life has had a great deal of influence on his novel because
it is bias towards a gender therefore showing personal belief. Except one has to remember the
fact Bram Stoker grew up in the 1800s when men were thought of as the superior gender and
everything was about where you stood in the social classes. This means he sadly grew up with
this misconception and did not know any different so he did not know he was wrong in what he
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wrote. At this moment in time women were just thought of as inferior and money had the
capability to make impossible things possible through bribery.
To conclude, Bram Stoker's Dracula, was quite biased against women and overall an
immensely dull and over-rated novel. He intricately laced a web of his corrupt worldviews in an
attempt to ensnare his reader. He only mentioned two social issues where he had the upper hand.
Mr. Stoker was of wealthy descent and a man. Henceforth, he should have just stuck to writing
about the political climate in Ireland and things of that nature because the book was wordy and
uninteresting. Do not read this wretched thing of a novel, but if you do, tell me how you feel
because, as an advocate for all literature, I have actually found a book I completely disliked.