In nearly all of Stoker´s work we find a feaseable misoginy, and where we most observe it is in Dracula. But what did Stoker fear so much so that his negative vision about women impregnated all the pages in Dracula?
    To comprehend this misoginy we must situate ourselves in the time when the novel was being hatched: at the end of nineteenth century a time when man´s kingdom was beginning to tumble. There is a fear on Behalf of man that women could reach certain aspect of social life till the occupied by men, moreover women are fed up of playing a role which makes them feel oppressed, they begin to deny their fuction as decorative and mating object. Therefore we could understand that Stoker sees women as a minor being, felt that awakening as a threat from women that didn´t comform with the role that men had given them.
    From his conservative and puritane point of view, the rebel woman would be the vampire who confrots the rules established by victorian society. It is ussually said that witch-hunts appear in times of social change, when women obtained some rights that male mankinds´ supremacy trumble making men feal threatened by this event. That´s why in this novel we have a clear identification between the woman and the evil vampires capable of breaking all the sexual tabues of those times, although for optaining this she´ll need a malefic appearence (like the Sabbath were the witch needs the Demon) That in this book should be Dracula, evil being which will pervert women giving them the power to act by themselves and being guilty that the ordered victorian system crashes when women awoke from the eternal sleep.
    According to Stoker you have to fear and destroy, because to that non natural woman who is the cause of the destruction of male victorians´ wellfare. Probably for Stoker women was an evil being because of her nature and like Eve, they are pervert and guilty beings who are the cause of men´s corruption
 

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