Sexuality: As a Cause of Collision between Humans and Supernatural Forces in Stocker's Dracula
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Abstract
Dracula is often considered as a gothic novel. Its main character, Dracula is
undoubtedly a vampire as the prey on living human beings. While considering the
novel association with the disruption and transgression the novel bears the undertones
of sexual perversion. There are a number of incidents in the novel that show Dracula's
vampiric procreation. Dracula's sucking and changing the females with an exchange
of bodily fluid reveals that it is a psycho-sexual sucking. Besides it also becomes clear
that the act of blood transfusion functions as a verily fundamental sexual
displacement. The entire acts of sucking does not limit to the physical hunger, but
goes beyond that which is really the actions of sexual perversion. In the same way, the
act of sucking relates with heterosexual and the paradigm of reproduction. This new
perspective is really a genuine perception to dig out the echoes of sexuality that
resound throughout the novel.